International education’s value to the nation has surged past A$20 billion (US$14.8 billion), confirming the industry’s status as Australia’s third-biggest earner and easily the largest services export, write John Ross and Julie Hare for The Australian. Read more...
Brazil’s science budget has shrunk by more than 40% in the past three years. But researchers are now trying to escape an even worse crisis: federal science spending could be frozen at its current low level for the next two decades, under a constitutional amendment to cap public spending to inflation-level rises, writes Claudio Angelo for Nature. Read more...
The government announced last week that it is planning to close several higher learning institutions after a preliminary inspection report indicated that some are below standard, writes Louis Kolumbia for The Citizen. Read more...
Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) rank first and second in QS Quacquarelli Symonds’ first QS Graduate Employability Rankings, while China’s Tsinghua University takes third place. Universities with a strong STEM – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – focus, particularly those emphasising technology, rank highly. Read more...
The European Students' Union or ESU has launched a Small Grants Programme to help its member student unions contribute to securing the refugees’ fundamental human rights and stimulating a sense of belonging to the national and European community. Read more...
By Tonderayi Mukeredzi. Financially-burdened higher education students in Zimbabwe are contesting an age-old practice compelling them to pay full student fees while on attachment to employers. Read more...
By Yojana Sharma. UNESCO has begun work on drawing up a series of indicators on higher education internationalisation in Asia to help universities and education policy-makers in the region to develop an international outlook and promote international higher education links against a set of solid, accepted, quality benchmarks. Read more...
By Betty Leask and Hans de Wit. Global social impact is a key feature of the evolution of higher education. Universities have always arguably been both national and international – located in a nation state, but connected in various ways with international communities. But the world of the 21st century is a very different one from that of the 11th century, when the modern university began to evolve in Bologna. Read more...
By Paul Benneworth, Magnus Gulbrandsen, Ellen Hazelkorn and Andrew Gibson. Arts and humanities research is useful because it gives societies the capacity to do more good things and improve the quality of life for more of its population. Read more...
By Lauren Kardos. The United States needs to encourage more students to take up critical languages. This could benefit individual students, but could also help the US develop a more culturally sensitive and globally minded populace. Read more...
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