By Yojana Sharma. Changes to university admissions to allow in more students from poorer areas to universities in around a dozen richer provinces have backfired as thousands of parents demonstrated in the streets in several cities fearing the out-of-province quotas will be at the expense of local students. Read more...
By Jan Petter Myklebust. Seven professors at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, or NMBU, publicly questioned the suitability of the Board Chairman Siri Hatlen and several board members due to their lack of academic skills and experience. Read more...
By Jan Petter Myklebust. A sharp increase in the number of European Union citizens coming to Denmark to study has prompted Higher Education and Science Minister Ulla Tørnæs to look into whether the programmes on offer are “too big a draw” for foreign students and whether there are loopholes which need to be closed. Read more...
By Michael Gardner. University heads have warned that a continuous underfunding of universities and their clinics could seriously harm performance in the healthcare sector. They also call for better academic career prospects for young medical graduates. Read more...
By Bruce Macfarlane. What do graduates owe to society, if anything, in the context of the marketisation of higher education? I believe that the only logical response to this question is that they owe society very little. Read more...
By Wachira Kigotho. A total of 59 African-born scholars based in the United States and Canada have been selected to join universities in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda to work on academic projects with their peers as part of the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program or CADFP. Read more...
By Paul Rigg. Sindy Patricia Ramos Pocón, 23, knows what it means to be poor and go without food. Read more...
By Katrina Koppel. Internationalisation of education has been a goal for student movements for decades. Over the past few years, the number of international students in Europe has increased by about a third, according to Eurostat. This number, big as it is, does not include all international migrations of lecturers, researchers and some of the Erasmus network internationalisation. Read more...
By Thierry M Luescher, Manja Klemenčič and James Otieno Jowi. The new book Student Politics in Africa: Representation and activism highlights trends including a penetration by national politics into student representation and the co-option of student leaders through ‘incentives’. Also, marketisation has led to a dearth of ideology in student politics and new dynamics in institutional governance. Read more...
By Karen MacGregor. The “incredible human costs” of student protests in South Africa in the past two years has been missed amid the turmoil, for students and staff and especially for university leaders, says Professor Jonathan Jansen, whose resignation as vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State was announced last week – and as campuses countrywide continued burning. Read more...
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