Although the inability to levy fees means they receive less teaching funding per student than universities in England, which can charge fees of up to £9,000 (US$13,800) per year, Scottish universities are in rude health. Yet the abolition of fees has done surprisingly little to widen access to higher education, reports The Economist. Read more...
A university in Russia’s Urals region has published 3,000 copies of a book targeting young people, Muslim clerics and civil servants, detailing the deceits used by Islamic State and describing the dangers that await the possible recruits to the terrorist group, reports RT. Read more...
Human Rights Commission member Fadel al-Gharrawi said last Tuesday that the ISIS terrorist organisation has imposed its own curricula in all schools and universities in Nineveh province, reports Shafaq News. Read more...
Foreign universities crave access to India’s booming higher education market. Less well known is how some Indian institutions are venturing overseas, reports The Economist. Read more...
Many Canadian universities are seeing a sharp increase in the number of professors hired to primarily teach rather than research. While that may be good news for students, the change could threaten the mission of universities, writes Simona Chiose for The Globe and Mail. Read more...
A new study says the extraordinary scale of PhD fraud in Russia can be attributed to the reproduction of near-identical doctoral dissertations within universities, writes Jack Grove for Times Higher Education. Read more...
By Rajani Naidoo. It is clearly very important for universities to contribute to their cities, regions and countries. However, many of the major issues facing humankind such as the destruction of the environment, rising inequality and violence across borders can only be solved by countries and universities working together. In this sense, the question of how higher education contributes to global wellbeing becomes very important. Read more...
By Ivan Sterligov, Alfiya Enikeeva and Victor Trofimov. The disciplinary structure of various nations’ publication output has long attracted attention of scholars and policy analysts alike. It is commonly understood that this structure is influenced by culture, geography and the political regime of a given country, but several studies show that, for leading countries, this structure is often similar. Read more...
By Cecilia Pellosniemi. The new Finnish government is truly making an effort to internationalise its higher education system: tuition fees for non-European Union/European Economic Area students are going to be introduced over the next couple of years and the funding incentives for universities to have international degree programmes are likely to be scrapped. Read more...
By Anand Kulkarni and Angel Calderon. Increasingly, countries are searching for new sources of growth to maintain and improve living standards, create sustainable employment, diversify their industrial base and address critical challenges of growing and ageing populations, among many challenges. Read more...
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