Von Andreas Stummer. Hochschulbildung in Australien ist ein wichtiger Wirtschaftszweig geworden. Die Jagd nach Studiengebühren geht aber zu Lasten der Qualität: Viele Studierende sprechen kaum Englisch - und bestehen trotzdem die Prüfungen. More...
Von Philipp Sarasin. Die Besetzung von Lehrstühlen ist wieder zum Politikum geworden. Im Fall der Nachfolge eines Publizistik-Professors an der Universität Zürich hat der «Tages-Anzeiger» laut geklagt, dass einem schweizerischen Bewerber eine Amerikanerin vorgezogen wurde. Dies, obwohl zum Aufgabenbereich der Professur auch die Analyse der Schweizer Medienlandschaft zähle. Auf die hohe wissenschaftliche Qualität der Amerikanerin habe die Unileitung nur gesetzt, weil das «dem Ranking» der Uni Zürich nütze. More...
Von Jens Mattern. "Brain-drain".1,25 Millionen Polen verlassen heuer das Land; heimische Wirtschaft leidet.
Mangelnde Perspektiven veranlassten schon 46 Prozent der 18- bis 31-jährigen Studierenden, Arbeit in westlichen Ländern zu suchen. Diese Erhebung der Zeitung Rzeczpospolita sorgt in Polen für Aufsehen. More...
By . Two months ago dozens of prominent Belarusian intellectuals and civil society leaders called for the establishment of a Belarusian national university. This push followed realisation by leaders of Belarusian civil society that they were powerless to influence the election of the rector of the European Humanities University – the largest donor-sponsored independent educational project associated with Belarus. More...
By Ryan Craig. As a Canadian student working in the U.S., I’ve had to acclimatize to several key differences between the two countries. For example, the transition from bagged milk (yes, we buy our milk in bags) to unwieldy jugs took some getting used to. More...
Released today, the 2015 edition of the QS University Rankings: BRICS reflects the increasingly strong global presence of leading Chinese universities – with the top three spots going to C9 members Tsinghua University, Peking University and Fudan University.
Russia’s leading entrant, Lomonosov Moscow State University, falls one position this year, but retains a highly respectable fourth place. India’s top representative, the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, follows immediately behind in fifth. Brazil makes its first appearance with the Universidade de São Paulo in ninth place, while South Africa’s leader is the University of Cape Town in 14th – both having fallen slightly since last year. More...
By Khulekani Magubane. ACADEMICS tasked with incubating the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and SA) think-tank in SA have acknowledged that SA’s new visa regime has made it difficult for people and researchers to travel between Brics nations. More...
By Krysia Lenzo. For students studying abroad this summer, living in Greece during the debt crisis may not be as bad as it seems. Greek citizens are only allowed to withdraw a maximum of 60 euros a day, but students on exchange programs are not subject to the same capital controls; they can take out additional funds, depending on the cap imposed by their card issuer and cash available at the ATMs. More...
By Jody Robb. Universities are among this country’s most proactive real estate developers, with property portfolio values putting them in an elite echelon, according to Bayleys’ latest Total Property magazine, which comes out today.
In examining the property credentials of New Zealand’s eight universities, Bayleys found compelling examples of how these institutions are reassessing and reorganising their property portfolios in light of a changing tertiary educational world. More...
Russia President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday the creation of a BRICS university, during the summit of the bloc underway in the Russian city of Ufa.
“Member states of the bloc have agreed to coordinate their efforts in (the area of) information security, including the Internet. There will be a network of community universities to bolster scientific and technological exchange between member states”, Putin said. More...
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