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21 juin 2018

University rankings – Real reasons to be concerned

International university rankings are deeply-flawed measures of third-level colleges produced by commercial organisations, but there’s no escaping the fact that they are highly influential indicators which guide foreign investment and flows of international students, writes Carl O’Brien for The Irish Times. More...
21 juin 2018

Staff cuts drag universities down in rankings

Staff cuts despite growing student numbers have dragged most New Zealand universities down in the latest world rankings, after six of the country’s eight universities dropped in the London-based QS rankings, which are regarded as the most important for attracting international students, writes Simon Collins for the New Zealand Herald. More...
21 juin 2018

BRICS academics proffer solutions to pressing issues

Academics from the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) bloc proposed some innovative solutions to the developing world’s most pressing problems when they met in Johannesburg, South Africa, under the aegis of the just-ended 10th BRICS Academic Forum, writes Mthulisi Sibanda for Caj News Africa. More...
21 juin 2018

Government to curb radicalism at universities

Higher Education Minister Mohamad Nasir announced a plan last week to meet with the heads of public universities towards the end of this month to coordinate efforts aimed at preventing radicalism on Indonesian campuses, reports the Jakarta Globe. More...
21 juin 2018

Love Island gets more applicants than top universities

Once again the British nation has been struck with a case of Love Island fever with recent statistics showing that more than double the number of people applied to star in the raunchy reality television programme than they did to study at Oxford and Cambridge universities combined, writes Abigail Rabbett for Cambridge News. More...
21 juin 2018

Minister wants more control over internationalisation

Minister of Education Ingrid van Engelshoven says higher education in the Netherlands must be able to internationalise further, but only if it improves the quality of education and if Dutch students are not displaced, writes Janene Pieters for NL Times. More...
21 juin 2018

Concern over growing enrolment through online degrees

Experts are concerned at plans by India’s higher education regulator, the University Grants Commission, to establish new regulations for online education, which are expected to come into effect from the 2018-19 academic term, writes Shreya Roy Chowdhury for Scroll. More...
21 juin 2018

Universities eye liberated towns for new faculties

Turkish universities are to join rebuilding efforts in parts of Syria liberated from terrorist groups, with Gaziantep University in the eponymous Turkish province on the Syrian border planning to establish a department in Jarablus, while Harran in Sanliurfa, another city near the border, is to set up a faculty in al-Bab, reports the Daily Sabah. More...
21 juin 2018

Minister calls for universities to be more open

There will be no restriction on any educational programme, debate, forum or discourse at the public universities, said Malaysia’s Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik, as he urged university vice-chancellors and their deputies not to impose such restrictions as higher education institutions are supposed to be an open intellectual field, writes Siti A’isyah Sukaimi for New Straits Times. More...
21 juin 2018

Green Campus set to bloom at universities

To introduce the concept of a ‘Green Campus’ in Pakistani universities, the Higher Education Commission organised a consultative meeting of a working group of 15 universities to deliberate on Universitas Indonesia’s UI GreenMetric World University Rankings on World Environment Day on 5 June, reports The News. More...
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