University students across France have taken to social media to share pictures of their overflowing lecture theatres, in a bid to raise the alarm bells, reports The Local.fr. There are an additional 65,000 students at universities in France this term taking the total up to 2.5 million – and the students themselves are feeling a little cramped. Read more...
Australia will not develop the innovative economy envisaged by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull unless it stops rewarding mediocrity and ditches a culture of "every child gets a prize", the nation's most prestigious universities argue, writes Matthew Knott for The Sydney Morning Herald. Read more...
Iran has given permission for five Americans to study in a Tehran University masters programme. Others are enrolling in Persian language classes. Even as denunciations of the nuclear deal still echo in the US and Iran, the mid-July breakthrough already appears to have quietly enabled the first steps in academic diplomacy between the two countries, writes Scott Peterson for The Christian Science Monitor. Read more...
By Karen MacGregor. With graduate joblessness rising and state funding dwindling, universities of technology are confronted by dual challenges – delivering entrepreneurship education and work-integrated learning to students, and themselves becoming more entrepreneurial – says Professor Irene Moutlana, vice-chancellor of Vaal University of Technology and deputy chair of the South African Technology Network, or SATN. Read more...
By Jan Petter Myklebust. The drop in the success rate of universities bidding for Horizon 2020 funding is being driven by increased demand from universities suffering from austerity programmes, according to the European University Association, or EUA. Read more...
By Patrick Blessinger. The second half of the 20th century was characterised as a period of enormous expansion of higher education worldwide, especially through opening access by removing long-standing ethnic, gender and class barriers. Read more...
By Ly Pham. Ton Duc Thang University, or TDTU, a self-financed public institution in Vietnam, announced in mid-September that it will create its own requirements and procedures for promoting professors. This has caused an intense and ongoing debate in the national media and on social networks. Read more...
By Graeme Atherton. What is the common denominator that binds universities and university systems across the world? It is not research excellence, good teaching or a social mission – it is unequal access. Read more...
By Jane Marshall. As a record number of students start the new university year, the government has announced that higher education and research are priorities and their 2016 budget has been spared from cuts. Read more...
By Suchitra Behal. A country specific framework for ranking Indian higher education institutions has been rolled out by the government. This initiative is a response to global rankings in which Indian universities and colleges usually do not fare too well. Read more...
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