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10 décembre 2018

Creating safe, inclusive campuses through collaboration

By Joanna Newman. When the populist government in Hungary, led by Viktor Orbán, proposed a ban on gender studies in October – removing accreditation for a number of masters and PhD programmes without explanation – it contravened its commitments to its citizens and its multilateral partners. More...
10 décembre 2018

Towards inclusive intercultural learning for all

By Betty Leask, Elspeth Jones and Hans de Wit. “Study the past if you would define the future,” Confucius said.
Today we increasingly hear of the importance of providing international and intercultural learning experiences for all students. And there is growing recognition that it is both impractical and unwise to focus on mobility as the primary means of developing intercultural awareness. More...
10 décembre 2018

UC at tipping point, in pursuit of a new funding model

By John Aubrey Douglass. Like many other public universities, the University of California (UC) system is in a long transition from an era with relatively robust state subsidisation and low tuition and housing costs to the new world of public disinvestment, increasing operating costs, a focus on funding from students and their families and relatively new income sources. More...
10 décembre 2018

Leading a university in financially challenging times

By Petra Wend. Diverse university funding systems in different countries around the world and varying degrees of autonomy lead universities to develop different strategic responses. Despite these differences, all universities face increasingly complex and fast-changing environments. More...
10 décembre 2018

American science in decline as China’s rises

By John Richard Schrock. American scientists published 409,000 science, technology and medical papers in 2017, according to the journal Learned Publishing, which analysed data from the United States National Science Board. In the same period, those in China published 426,000. More...
10 décembre 2018

When trade war spills over into academic cooperation

By Gerard A Postiglione and Denis Simon. As the United States and China were engaged in normalising relations in the late 1970s, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping became adamant that China should have “a thousand talented scientists” who would be recognised around the world. Deng wanted quick approval to send several hundred Chinese to study at top American universities. More...
10 décembre 2018

New cross-border university launched under HE reforms

By Wagdy Sawahel. The Cameroonian government has announced the start of classes at a Cameroon-Republic of Congo inter-state university next academic year as part of a raft of measures to promote higher education reform and graduate employability, as well as greater cooperation between the two central African countries. More...
10 décembre 2018

Labor promises taskforce on campus sexual harassment

By Geoff Maslen. Australia’s universities and their residential colleges will be answerable to a new independent taskforce responsible for tackling sexual harassment and assault on campus. With claims that half of Australia’s one million university students have been sexually harassed at some time, the Australian Labor Party says it will impose penalties on universities that do not act – should it win the federal election to be held early next year. More...
10 décembre 2018

Call for improved student-teacher ratio as enrolment dips

By Michael Gardner. Recent official statistics show a slight dip in the number of students enrolling at universities for the first time, although overall student numbers have again increased. Higher education heads are calling for more support. More...
10 décembre 2018

Top universities call for expansion of 5-100 project

By Eugene Vorotnikov. Leading Russian universities have called on the national government to expand the existing Project 5-100 – a project that aims to get at least five universities from Russia into the top 100 in one of the leading global university rankings – starting from 2019 or 2020. More...
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