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14 mai 2018

Universities urged to keep separate maintenance account

Zambian Minister of Higher Education Professor Nkandu Luo has ordered all public universities and colleges in the country to open separate bank accounts to be specifically used for maintenance as a way of enhancing accountability, reports the Lusaka Times. More...
14 mai 2018

Fears of ‘Brexodus’ of academics is myth, figures show

Fears of an academic ‘Brexodus’ have been exposed as myth after figures revealed the numbers arriving have actually increased in the last year, writes Christopher Hope for The Telegraph. More...
14 mai 2018

Push to raise universities, colleges to ASEAN standards

Education authorities in Vietnam’s largest metropolis, Ho Chi Minh City, will undertake programmes this year to improve its universities and colleges to meet Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) accreditation standards, reports Viet Nam News. More...
14 mai 2018

Students head to the Great White North over fees, Trump

Tertiary education in Canada, known as the Great White North, is proving attractive to students from the United States, where Americans owe nearly US$1.2 trillion in student loan debt, writes Susan Donaldson James for the Pacific Standard. More...
14 mai 2018

Universities warned to stop charging tuition fees

Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council will investigate reports of federal universities collecting tuition fees from students as it maintains that it is illegal to do so, writes Leon Usigbe for the Nigerian Tribune. More...
14 mai 2018

Enrolment at top tech universities shoots up

Switzerland’s federal technology institutes – ranked in the top 10 in a recent ranking of the most innovative universities in Europe – are attracting a record number of students, particularly in the fields of information technology and engineering sciences, reports Swiss Info. More...
14 mai 2018

Universities' hostels are crime and drug dens – Report

University hostels have become dens of criminal gangs, prostitution and drug abuse, according to a report by the Commission for University Education, which blames poor collaboration between universities and the National Security Council for rising crime in the institutions of higher learning, writes Augustine Oduor for Standard Digital. More...
14 mai 2018

Alarm over poaching of computer science academics

The dean of the University of Warwick’s King’s Cross campus in London, which coordinates its artificial intelligence projects, fears the poaching of top computer science brains in higher education in the United Kingdom by United States groups such as Amazon, Google and Uber is threatening Britain’s ability to build on a leading position in machine learning, writes Aliya Ram for the Financial Times. More...
14 mai 2018

China’s elite universities top emerging nations ranking

The Times Higher Education’s BRICS University Rankings has been renamed the Emerging Economies University Rankings 2018 and broadened this year to “reflect emerging potential of a diverse, innovative and ambitious range of countries”, it says. The rankings take in 42 countries across four continents. More...
14 mai 2018

Does Nigeria need a new military university?

By Alex Abutu. A new military university focused on nuclear technology is to be located in the town of Biu in Borno State, a uranium-rich area and the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency which has ravaged the country for the last eight years. While the new institution will be open to civilians, not everyone agrees that Nigeria needs another military university. More...
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