By Annina Grob. Two and a half years ago now, a narrow majority of the Swiss electorate approved the so-called popular 'Stop Mass Immigration' initiative or MEI proposed by the Swiss People’s Party or SVP. Read more...
19 septembre 2016
19 septembre 2016
What happened to the global schoolhouse?
By Jason Tan. The 'global schoolhouse' vision was outlined by Singapore’s ministry of trade and industry in a 2002 report. One of the sections in the report focused on the education industry. The ministry claimed that Singapore was well placed to gain a piece of the estimated US$2.2 trillion world education market. Read more...
19 septembre 2016
The future of TNE lies in equitable partnerships
By Patrick Hackett. This year the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom is celebrating a very significant anniversary. It is 10 years since we partnered with one of China’s leading institutions, to create the Xi’an Jiatong-Liverpool University or XJTLU. Read more...
19 septembre 2016
Stress on doctoral programmes deters applicants
By Vimal Patel. American doctoral education is under fire. Concerns about working conditions and low stipends are fuelling graduate unionisation drives. Secure academic jobs, in many fields, are getting harder to land. Graduate-education debt levels are rising. Read more...
19 septembre 2016
Study abroad funding determined by university rankings
By Jan Petter Myklebust and Eva Tønnessen. The Norwegian government agencies overseeing arrangements for grants for students to study abroad are drawing up a list of permitted elite destination universities – for those applying for top-up grants to attend elite institutions abroad – based on universities’ performance in two global rankings, it has emerged. Read more...
19 septembre 2016
Academics question pressure to merge universities
By Jan Petter Myklebust and Ian R Dobson. The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture is pressing universities to reform their curricula to give up smaller disciplines and give a higher profile to their strengths, specialising in particular subjects. Read more...
19 septembre 2016
UN call to ease visa restrictions for refugee students
By Brendan O'Malley. UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, is calling on universities to support scholarships for refugees and on governments to invest in education for refugees and to ease the provision of visas for refugee students. Read more...
19 septembre 2016
Prime minister opposes 'safe spaces' for student debate
By Brendan O'Malley. The new Prime Minister, Theresa May, has criticised the use of 'safe spaces' for debate in universities, which are intended to ensure discussion does not cause offence to students, saying that they hold back innovation and harm the country. Read more...
19 septembre 2016
Developing a culture of transformation at universities
By Brendan O'Malley. Higher education can only rise to the challenge of the changes buffeting the world and education itself shifts the culture of its own organisations, according to Richard Gerver, the opening keynote speaker at the annual conference of the European Association for International Education or EAIE held in Liverpool last week. Read more...
19 septembre 2016
Ambitious drive for foreign students is paying off
By Yojana Sharma. China’s ambitious drive to attract more foreign students is beginning to pay off with some 397,635 students from overseas studying in China last year, according to official figures released earlier this year. This is in line with the government’s target of achieving an overall international student population of 350,000 by 2015. Read more...
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