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7 mai 2018

How internal quality assurance can drive success

By Michaela Martin. Today, higher education systems and institutions are exposed, more than ever, to constant change and transformation. As the higher education sector is quickly expanding, institutions and programmes have become much more diversified and often privatised. Within this context, the quality of institutions and their programmes are more easily questioned. More...

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7 mai 2018

Universities appeal to president to end lengthy strike

By Tunde Fatunde. University stakeholders have issued an ultimatum to President Patrice Talon, urging him to resolve a three-month-long strike which has shuttered the country’s four universities, or face mass action that will render his government illegitimate and the country ungovernable. More...

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7 mai 2018

Scholars look for ways to restore respect for expertise

By Mary Beth Marklein. A gathering of United States scholars last week took up the question of how their work can remain relevant in a ‘post-truth’ era, when alternative facts can influence public policy and fake news can be leveraged to try to swing election results. More...

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7 mai 2018

Court ruling backs rights of international students

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The Supreme Court of Sweden on 17 April ruled that Mälardalen University College must pay back international student Connie Dickinson – whose surname is now Askenbäck – two-thirds of the tuition fees she paid for courses at the university college that were not of sufficiently high quality. More...

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7 mai 2018

Inclusion vs free speech a challenge, say HE presidents

By Karen MacGregor. In a survey by the American Council on Education (ACE), 471 university and college presidents stressed the importance of both promoting an inclusive society and protecting free speech on campuses. But an overwhelming 96% said it was more important for students to be exposed to all types of speech than to “protect students by prohibiting offensive or biased speech”. More...

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7 mai 2018

Caution greets private universities twinning requirement

By Wagdy Sawahel. New private universities will not be allowed to operate in Egypt unless they have collaboration agreements with institutions rated among the top 50 universities in the world, according to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The move has received mixed reviews from higher education experts. More...

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7 mai 2018

Academics earn some of the best salaries in Commonwealth

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Among Commonwealth countries, South African higher education institutions offered the highest overall average salaries in 2017 and enjoyed the highest salary increases from 2016 – after cost of living is considered – according to a recent Association of Commonwealth Universities’ survey on academic salaries. More...

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7 mai 2018

Norway sends 250-strong research delegation to China

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Norway’s Minister of Research and Higher Education, Iselin Nybø, led a huge delegation of university leaders and scientists on a visit last week to Beijing and Shanghai, to deepen Norwegian-Chinese research cooperation. The visit was hosted by China’s Minister of Science and Technology, Wang Zhigang. More...

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7 mai 2018

Minister resigns over NTU president appointment fiasco

By Mimi Leung. Taiwan’s Minister of Education Pan Wen-chung has resigned over his refusal to sign off the highly controversial appointment of a new president for National Taiwan University (NTU) until key questions surrounding the appointment had been cleared up. He has been replaced by Wu Maw-Kuen, a Taiwanese-American physicist. More...

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7 mai 2018

EUA condemns ‘intimidation’ of academics via blacklist

By Brendan O'Malley. The European University Association (EUA) has issued a statement strongly condemning the “recent intimidation of academics” in the Hungarian media. More...

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