UK universities have been accused of “blatant double standards” on the day it was revealed that vice-chancellors’ pay has risen around four times faster than pay for most academic staff, writes Aftab Ali for the Independent. Read more...
31 mai 2016
31 mai 2016
Record 97% of university graduates land jobs
A record-high 97.3% of university graduates in Japan were employed as of the beginning of the fiscal year on 1 April, according to government data, reflecting companies’ increasing appetite for recruitment, reports The Japan Times. Read more...
31 mai 2016
New education head scraps textbook guideline revisions
New Education Minister Pan Wen-chung unveiled several major policies last weekend, including the scrapping of the controversial adjustment of guidelines for high school history textbooks, reports Focus Taiwan. Read more...
31 mai 2016
US leader launches Fulbright University
United States Secretary of State John Kerry last week officially launched Vietnam's first private non-profit university in Ho Chi Minh City, writes Ha Anh for Thanh Nien News. Read more...
31 mai 2016
What chance for Syrians to study?
By Rebecca Warden. Before the conflict began in 2011, there were over 500,000 people enrolled in some form of higher education in Syria. Five harsh years later and 11 million people – half of the population – have been displaced and around six million have left the country and are mainly living as refugees in neighbouring countries. Read more...
31 mai 2016
Big data can help determine university funding
By Yegor Stadny. The Ukrainian economy and the country’s education policy-makers will dictate how many state-funded places there will be for each of the 130 fields of higher education this year. This means that the government will assume that, for instance, 452 biotechnology or 2,330 management graduates will be needed in four to six years’ time to boost the Ukrainian economy. Read more...
31 mai 2016
Addressing the dragon in the room
By David Stremba and Scott Spragg. Every other day in the United States press there is a headline warning of an impending “China Crisis”, whereby the steady stream of Chinese students seeking US education will presumably dry up and universities which foolishly put all their eggs in the China basket will be left in the lurch, forced to consider shuttering in the face of huge budgetary deficits. Read more...
31 mai 2016
Tackling the 'high debt-useless degree' problem
By Pushkar. At the recent convocation ceremony of Shiv Nadar University, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan spoke briefly about private universities, noting that good quality education was expensive and it was necessary to find ways “to make degrees affordable”. More importantly, he said: “We also should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.” Read more...
31 mai 2016
Teaching leadership for change in the business school
By Margaret Andrews. While estimates for the amount spent on leadership development vary widely, leadership education and development is big business. TrainingIndustry.com estimates that corporate spending on training (including both insourced and outsourced spend for all types of training, not just for management and leadership education) was US$356 billion in 2015. Read more...
31 mai 2016
Religious university students oppose education law
By Mushfique Wadud. Eight mainly religion-based university and school student organisations have come together in Bangladesh to protest against a proposed education law, which they fear could undermine the country’s Islamic education system, bringing it under secular government oversight. Read more...
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