By Angel Calderon. QS’s 13th edition of its world university rankings will be remembered by universities for the gains or losses it brought. Three universities dropped from the top 50; four dropped from the 51-100 band and another four dropped out of the top 200. Read more...
By John Richard Schrock. A recent announcement by the European Commission calls for all research to be freely available online by 2020, a system called ‘open access’. Where there are no widespread library paper archives, this action threatens to undermine science research. Read more...
By Dennis Tourish. Many of us seem to believe that whatever problems society faces can be solved by ‘more leadership’. Invariably, this means that a ‘strong’ leader is required. Such leaders have a superhuman ability to diagnose problems and develop a vision for fixing them. They are ‘decisive’, not easily swayed by contrary opinion and are determined to the point of implacability. Read more...
By Jan Petter Myklebust. The Lars Løkke Rasmussen government is moving to cut funding for universities and the student financing system and increase political control over higher education institutions. Read more...
By Michael Gardner. As support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s immigration policy plummets, the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia, or NRW, has announced extra funding for the integration of refugees in higher education. Read more...
By María Elena Hurtado. August was coming to an end when a group of angry students barged into the office of Eduardo Silva, rector of the Jesuit university Universidad Alberto Hurtado, in Santiago, Chile. Read more...
By Brendan O'Malley. United Kingdom universities are risking a sharp fall in European Union student numbers unless reassurances are made, the head of Universities UK, the vice-chancellors’ body, said on Wednesday. Read more...
By Brendan O'Malley. United States universities took 11 of the top 20 places in the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings published last week, and held all top three places for the first time since 2004-5. Read more...
By Jan Petter Myklebust and Brendan O'Malley. Minister of Higher Education and Research Helene Hellmark Knutsson has fired the country’s University Chancellor and head of the Swedish Higher Education Authority, Harriet Wallberg, and four members of the board of the Karolinska Institute, or KI, in Stockholm in the wake of the Macchiarini affair. Read more...
By Nita Temmerman. Universities and industry have been collaborating for well over 100 years. The principal nature of these collaborations has generally been research-focused, where industry has provided funding for university researchers to tackle strategic projects that drive industry innovation, development and-or contribute to economic growth. Read more...
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