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13 février 2018

Scandinavia’s biggest inquiry into internationalisation

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The internationalisation inquiry overhauling the Swedish higher education and research system has called for a series of measures to improve opportunities for Swedish students to study abroad and to attract international talent to Swedish universities. More...
13 février 2018

Overhauling strategies for HE internationalisation

By Jan Petter Myklebust. When the special investigator for increased internationalisation at Swedish higher education institutions, Dr Agneta Bladh, delivered the first part of her landmark investigation to Minister of Higher Education and Research Helene Hellmark Knutsson on 31 January, the minister warned that Sweden had “slipped behind” in internationalisation. More...
13 février 2018

Minister denies visa hike is tuition fees by back door

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The government has denied claims that it is bringing in tuition fees by the back door by steeply increasing visa fees for international students. More...
13 février 2018

Death sentence handed down for campus student lynching

By Ameen Amjad Khan. An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has handed down a death sentence and 25-year sentences to five others for the horrific lynching last April of a student on the campus of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan. More...
13 février 2018

STEM universities must do more to close racial gaps

By Stuart Miller. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, was not Tiana Young’s first choice for college, even though Young wants to dual major in aeronautical and mechanical engineering, and the private university is one the top schools in the country for science, technology, math and engineering. More...
13 février 2018

‘Sharp drop’ expected in global student mobility growth

By Brendan O’Malley. Global outbound student mobility will likely slow over the next decade as countries invest more domestically in developing their own higher education provision, according to forecasts in a new British Council research report. More...
13 février 2018

International UG applications break 100,000 barrier

By Brendan O’Malley. Universities in the United Kingdom have seen a jump in undergraduate applications from European Union countries and a sharper spike in non-EU applications for places in 2018, bringing applications by international students to more than 100,000 for the first time, according to the latest figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) for applications ahead of the January deadline for courses starting this autumn. More...
13 février 2018

Planning the development of your research profile

By Nita Temmerman. There are two constant questions you can expect to hear if you work in the higher education sector. The first comes from students and is something along the lines of: ‘What is the assessment in this course?’, ‘Is there an end of semester exam?’ or ‘Is this going to be on the test?' The second comes from academics and goes something like this: ‘How am I supposed to be able to do any research with all the other things I have to juggle?’ This article concentrates on the second question. More...
13 février 2018

Government looking to encourage branch campuses

By Ruwayshid Alruwaili. Saudi Arabia has witnessed a number of rapid social and economic changes in the last couple of months. These transformations have come after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman unveiled Vision 2030, an ambitious programme of development for the Kingdom. More...
13 février 2018

Hong Kong’s higher education – 20 years after handover

By Gerard A Postiglione. In 1960, it would have been hard to imagine that a colonial society with one small undergraduate university would come to spawn several great universities. One English-medium university, established in 1911, prepared civil servants and other leaders from the local community, as well as some overseas Chinese. More...
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