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22 août 2018

Project launched to improve web archiving worldwide

Virginia Tech is leading a project to make web archives more valuable to researchers worldwide by developing course materials and cyber infrastructure to teach librarians and archivists internationally how to collect, extract and analyse archived information from the World Wide Web. More...
22 août 2018

Internationalisation proposals raise funding questions

By Jan Petter Myklebust. A grant scheme for foreign students and the expansion of Sweden’s network of higher education and research centres abroad are among the preliminary proposals being drawn up by the special investigation into strengthening internationalisation of higher education and research in Sweden, but questions arise about how they can be funded. More...
22 août 2018

Universities must step up to cater for ‘Society 5.0’

By Silvia Richter. Making Japan ‘the most innovation-friendly country in the world’ is one of the Japanese government’s key goals, according to Yuko Harayama, former executive member of the Japanese Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, who discussed Japan’s Comprehensive Strategy on Science, Technology and Innovation at a meeting of German and Japanese researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, on 5 July. More...
22 août 2018

German-Japanese dialogue on digital transformation

By Silvia Richter. Ruhr-Universität Bochum has introduced a new format in its internationalisation strategy. The aim is to offer a platform for dialogue with partner universities on topics that are of high relevance to society across the world. More...
22 août 2018

Rethinking higher education in the service of humanity

By Patrick Blessinger. As I reflect on the first 25 research-based articles I have authored and co-authored over the past several years with University World News, I would like to evaluate and summarise the key findings that have emerged from the empirical evidence used to ground these articles. More...
22 août 2018

Women are increasingly challenging campus machismo

By Alma Maldonado-Maldonado and Felicitas Acosta. In 2015, on a reality show in Brazil called ‘Master Chef’, a 12-year-old female participant started receiving harassing messages from male members of the audience. As a result, an organisation for women’s rights decided to start a campaign on Twitter to condemn sexual harassment against girls, using the hashtag: #miprimeroasseido (my first harassment). More...
22 août 2018

Putting wellbeing at the heart of the student experience

By Catriona Ryan. Student experience is a central concern for universities in the United Kingdom – and elsewhere. The Higher Education Academy defines student experience as “the totality of a student’s interaction with the institution”. This includes student learning, career development and wellbeing as well as other factors that contribute to enhancing a student environment. More...
22 août 2018

Why higher education requires an intersectional lens

By Anjali Thomas. Intersectionality is a theoretical framework that asks academicians and social development practitioners to use multiple lenses and identities in order to develop a deeper understanding of different issues and concerns. More...
22 août 2018

Visa change could deter incoming international faculty

By Pooja B Vijayakumar. The United States is a highly competitive and sought after country for careers in higher education, given it hosts more than 30 of the highest-ranked 45 institutions. In 2015-16 the US had 4,583 degree-granting universities and colleges out of which 3,004 institutions offered a four-year curriculum. More...
22 août 2018

Pan-African business school holds first MBA graduation

By Reuben Kyama. The African Leadership University School of Business (ALUSB), Africa’s pre-eminent leadership business school based in Rwanda, graduated its first cohort of pan-African professionals on 7 July at a ceremony held in Kigali, with Rwandan President Paul Kagame and renowned African business leader and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa presiding over the occasion. More...
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