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9 février 2018

Ministry to boost universities via college majors

The ministry of education last week said China will release a plan this year to support 10,000 majors in its higher education institutions to achieve ‘world-class’ status, writes Zhang Shiyu for ECNSMore...
9 février 2018

Pan-India fake degree racket busted

Three men, including a Delhi University graduate, were arrested for allegedly running a pan-India fake degree racket under which they sold about 50,000 forged certificates of universities and school boards, police said recently, reports Outlook IndiaMore...
9 février 2018

Moody’s warns over strain on public university budgets

Paltry state investment in higher education could strain the budgets of public colleges and universities this year, with small institutions bearing the brunt, Moody’s Investors Service said last week, writes Danielle Douglas-Gabriel for The Washington PostMore...
9 février 2018

Private university body resists bid for more UGC control

The Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh has expressed concern over the proposed amendment of the Private University Act 2010 which seeks the involvement of the University Grants Commission, or UGC, of Bangladesh in private university operations, writes Mahadi Al Hasnat for the Dhaka TribuneMore...
9 février 2018

Japan eyes universities for bullet train training centre

Japan is eyeing three Malaysian universities as partners to set up a training centre in Malaysia to produce skilled manpower if it wins the bid to build the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail, billed as Southeast Asia's largest infrastructure project, reports BernamaMore...
9 février 2018

Three private universities face closure

Three private universities in Kenya face closure after the higher education regulator recommended that one be shut down, with two others given a year to comply, reports Business DailyMore...
9 février 2018

Massive strikes set for major universities

The University and College Union has announced that its members at 61 universities will take 14 days of escalating strike action over a four-week period in protest against changes to UK higher education’s biggest pension scheme that would reportedly make members £10,000 (US$14,200) a year worse off in retirement, reports Study InternationalMore...
9 février 2018

Too few black, Latino students at top state universities

Even though more than half of Mississippi’s public high school graduates in 2015 were African American, they only made up 10% of that fall’s freshman class at the University of Mississippi, writes Meredith Kolodner for The Hechinger ReportMore...
9 février 2018

Graduates from foreign universities are coming home

Where it was once inevitable that those who left to study at prestigious foreign universities would remain on distant shores for years, China’s graduates are now answering the call of home more than ever before – and many are turning down lucrative careers on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley in favour of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, writes Luke Kelly for ForbesMore...
9 février 2018

Makerere to introduce e-learning as part of ICT policy

Makerere University is planning to introduce e-learning as part of its strategy to increase the number of students yet at the same time decongest the university. The proposal is part of the new revised information and communications technology (ICT) policy and master plan aimed at boosting research, innovation and online learning, writes Saphira Nahabwe for New VisionMore...
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