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By Geoff Maslen. Joyce Seitzinger is a digital learning expert whose background is as varied as her work as an education technologist. Although born in the Netherlands where she graduated with a degree in Celtic studies, she has lived in Germany, Ireland and Egypt, and then in 2006 she moved to the other side of the world to take up a job as an e-learning advisor for five years at New Zealand’s Eastern Institute of Technology. Read more...

By William Patrick Leonard. The mounting notoriety of the United States’ burgeoning student debt linked with the 2016 presidential election has drawn the attention of a growing number of announced candidates. Their foci appear to be an easy-to-understand remedy – the free college. Free or at least at low cost to the student. Read more...

By Artemios G Voyiatzis. A month later Greece’s members of parliament voted in, by a majority of more than two thirds, a new Memorandum of Understanding, or MoU, which was then signed by the European Commission on 19 August. Under this MoU, Greece will keep receiving financial assistance from euro area Member States and the International Monetary Fund, or IMF. In exchange, Greece must apply and enforce a wide-ranging austerity programme (officially a “financial adjustment”). Read more...

By Londa Schiebinger. Doing research wrong can cost lives and money. For example, between 1997 and 2000 10 drugs were withdrawn from the US market because of life-threatening health effects. Eight of these posed greater health risks for women than for men. Not only does developing a drug in the current market cost billions – but when drugs fail, they can cause human suffering and death. Read more...

By Simon Marginson. Last weekend the UK Home Secretary Theresa May wrote an article in The Sunday Times in which she proposed that European Union free movement should only apply to people who had already secured a job. Read more...

By Michael Gardner. Brazil has signed a memorandum of understanding with Germany on a programme to promote the role of German in the Brazilian higher education sector. “Sprachen ohne Grenzen – Deutsch” complements an already existing academic exchange programme run by the Brazilian government. Read more...

Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop and Education and Training Minister Christopher Pyne have released details of 461 mobility projects that will be funded in 2016 under the New Colombo Plan, raising the number of students the government supports to study abroad in the Indo-Pacific region to 10,000 in three years. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Universities face a 2% cut in their budget every year over the next four years, following an announcement by Minister of Children, Education and Gender Equality Ellen Trane Nørby and Minister of Education and Science Esben Lunde Larsen that the Danish education sector will no longer be ring-fenced in government budgets. Read more...

By Brendan O'Malley. The UK higher education sector remains more international than Germany’s, but Germany is moving forwards while the UK risks moving backwards, according to a paper released by the Higher Education Policy Institute, or HEPI, last Thursday. Read more...

By Maria Elena Hurtado. Confusion. Uncertainty. Disorientation. These are just some of the epithets employed by academics, students and higher education specialists to describe the government’s toing and froing regarding the awaited higher education reform. Read more...