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9 février 2018

Steep rise in white supremacist propaganda on campuses

By Brendan O’Malley. New data released on Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows an alarming increase in white supremacist propaganda on United States college campuses during the 2017 autumn semester, confirming that they feel emboldened in the current political climate. More...
9 février 2018

Eighty-two cases of offspring named as co-authors

By Aimee Chung. Some 82 cases of professors listing their secondary school offspring as co-authors in academic papers have been unearthed by an investigation by South Korea’s ministry of education. More...
9 février 2018

Ten African scientists among 2018 TWAS fellows

By Maina Waruru. Ten African academics are among the 55 new fellows of The World Academy of Sciences or TWAS – the second-best showing by scientists from the continent in nine years. More...
9 février 2018

Dutch branch campus shelved over academic freedom fears

By Yojana Sharma. The University of Groningen in the Netherlands has shelved plans to establish a branch campus in China, a joint venture with China Agricultural University, Beijing, after concerns were raised over academic freedom. More...
9 février 2018

Parliament told China is trying to influence campuses

By Yojana Sharma. Organisations that promote the Chinese government’s official view, including on foreign affairs, are present on almost all Australian university campuses and in many scientific organisations, and are used as an extension of the Communist Party abroad, according to a submission to the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security detailing China’s influence in the country. More...
9 février 2018

Parliamentarians call for release of detained students

By Shafigeh Shirazi and Yojana Sharma. With Iranian authorities still refusing to release exact figures of the number of people detained during protests in a number of Iranian cities in December and early January, Iranian lawmakers as well as academics have written to President Hassan Rouhani and the country’s head of the judiciary Sadegh Larijani calling for the immediate release of student detainees. More...
9 février 2018

Major higher education reforms secured by senators

By María Elena Hurtado. “Historic” was how Chile’s Socialist President Michelle Bachelet referred to the Congressional approval on 24 January of the higher education reform law and a special law for state universities. More...
9 février 2018

Despite increase, Arabs still underrepresented in HE

The number of Israeli Arabs pursuing bachelor degrees at Israeli universities and colleges jumped 60% over the last seven years to 47,000 in 2017, a survey by the government’s Council for Higher Education has found, writes Lior Dattel for HaaretzMore...
9 février 2018

New admissions process to start at 11 universities

Eleven universities in the Yangon and Mandalay regions of Myanmar will implement the new student admissions system for the 2018-19 academic year as a start to giving partial authority to universities, writes Ei Shwe Phyu for the Myanmar TimesMore...
9 février 2018

Government shelves plans for Robert Mugabe university

The government of Zimbabwe has temporarily shelved plans to construct a US$1 billion university in honour of former president Robert Mugabe as it was not a priority at the moment, writes Xolisani Ncube for NewsDayMore...
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