The central government is planning to give autonomy to ‘good’ universities and make them 'innovation hubs' while imposing heavy regulation on ‘non-performing’ institutions, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said last week, reports Press Trust of India. Read more...
The United States university system is an innovation powerhouse, according to Reuters' second Top 100 list. The US claimed 46 of the top 100 universities on the list, followed by Japan with nine and France and South Korea, both with eight universities, writes Abby Jackson for Business Insider. Read more...
Expertise across a broad range of disciplines – rather than exceptional performance in just a few – is key to success in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, THE's latest subject rankings suggest, writes Ellie Bothwell for Times Higher Education. Read more...
By Eugene Vorotnikov. Olga Vasilyeva, the recently appointed Minister of Education and Science, has suspended the process of consolidation of domestic universities initiated by Dmitry Livanov, her predecessor, who was fired from his post in August. Read more...
By Mary Beth Marklein. A higher education initiative that taps the African diaspora in North America as a way to reverse the effects of brain drain on the continent seeks to expand amid signs that it has had a positive and sustainable impact, new data shows. Read more...
By Nita Temmerman. Higher education is about learning, teaching, scholarship and research, and higher education providers should be continuously assuring and enhancing the quality of these areas. Read more...
By Mark Ashwill. It has been argued, in University World News and elsewhere, that the way to address the problem of unethical student recruitment agencies is to ban them. Read more...
By Julius Kravjar and Marek Hladík. Peer-review is the gold standard for scholarly publishing, and scholarly publishing is often one of the important performance indicators of scientific work. Read more...
By Richard Sharpe. Global higher education is in flux. The old established order based on the dominance of North American and European institutions is being challenged by the economic rise of East Asia and parts of South America. Read more...
By Nico Cloete. During the announcement by Minister of Higher Education and Training, Blade Nzimande, about the government’s response to the student fees standoff, he frequently made reference to the ‘poor and the working class’ as one group, the ‘missing middle’ as another, and those who earn more than R600,000 (US$43,300) annually as a third group – bringing class into the higher education debate. Read more...
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