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10 octobre 2016

Why outward-looking HE programmes should be for all

By Ranjit Goswami. Few faculty members or universities can ever simulate what happens in real life in real time in the classroom or laboratory. This is true for any discipline in higher education, and more true for areas of the social sciences and humanities; for would-be scientists too, real life exposure in real time helps them to develop all-important life skills. More...
10 octobre 2016

International students treated as commodities

By Jeannie Rea. More than 25% of Australian higher education enrolments were international students in 2015. Of these 280,000 were studying onshore, mostly at Australia’s public universities with a very small number at private higher education providers. More...
10 octobre 2016

If we don’t need experts, do we need universities?

By Steve Fuller. A striking feature of the rhetoric deployed in the recent campaign to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union was a call to ignore the experts who said that ‘Brexit’ would do irreparable damage to Britain’s standing in the world. More...
10 octobre 2016

University student accommodation problem growing

By Michael Gardner. Students in Germany are having increasing difficulty in finding accommodation, according to a recent survey covering major university cities. In the majority of the cities examined, the housing situation for students appears to have worsened. More...
10 octobre 2016

LERU and Eastern European universities join forces

By Jan Petter Myklebust. LERU, the League of European Research Universities with 21 member universities in Western Europe, and a group of seven research universities in Central and Eastern Europe have agreed to work together on key challenges, including within the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research programme, and improve research conditions across the continent. More...
10 octobre 2016

Liberal arts 'have a bigger role to play in Asian HE'

By Brendan O'Malley. In the rush to compete in global rankings, Asian countries may be over-standardising higher education development without providing sufficient alternative pathways to address the diversified needs of students, according to a new paper published by the Centre for Global Higher Education or CGHE, UCL Institute of Education, London. More...
10 octobre 2016

Student visas targeted in drive to cut migrant numbers

By Brendan O'Malley. Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced that major new restrictions on overseas students will form a key part of the government’s commitment to reduce immigration. More...
10 octobre 2016

N Korean leader says university must be ‘world class’

By Yojana Sharma. North Korea’s top higher education institution, Kim Il-sung University in the capital Pyongyang, must advance to become a “world-class institution”, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said in a letter to students, staff and professors of Pyongyang’s institution. More...
10 octobre 2016

Students sue NYU over ‘subpar’ branch campus education

By Yojana Sharma. In a lawsuit that, if it is successful, could have major implications for the way United States universities teach degrees in overseas branch campuses, three former students of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in Singapore are suing NYU, alleging its now defunct branch in Singapore failed to provide the quality of education they expected. More...
10 octobre 2016

Universities face funding pressure right across Europe

By Brendan O'Malley. In at least 20 out of 24 European countries, funding for higher education has either been cut or has not kept pace with increases in student numbers, according to new data published by the 2016 Public Funding ObservatoryMore...
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