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25 janvier 2018

Are branch campuses improving students’ employability?

By Christine Lee. Of the different forms of transnational higher education, international branch campuses or IBCs are arguably the riskiest and most vulnerable but also the most visible. An estimated 180,000 students are enrolled at IBCs globally. This includes higher education institutions that confer double degrees by their parent university and the local partner. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Brexit breakthrough, but what next for universities?

By Anne Corbett and Claire Gordon. The immediate Brexit deadlock has been broken. What might this mean for United Kingdom higher education and research, a sector that like the financial sector and much of British business, from cars to pharmaceuticals, has come to see itself embedded in Europe? At the very least, it heralds a major shake-up of the cards. More...

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25 janvier 2018

A global recognition convention for academic mobility

By Stig Arne Skjerven and Einar Meier. The 39th Session of the General Conference of UNESCO last month gave the green light to continue the work on UNESCO’s academic mobility convention, the Global Convention on the Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications, with the aim of formally adopting the new convention by UNESCO’s next general conference in November 2019. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Intelligent as well as artificial assistance needed

By Philip Warwick. I read with interest the coverage in University World News of the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2017 and the emphasis placed on preparing for digital transformation. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Low turnout at ‘restrictive’ student elections

By Ashraf Khaled. Voter turnout appeared to be low at the student union elections which took place in Egypt last weekend – the country’s first such polls in two years – and many candidates won their seats unopposed, according to local news reports including Al-Masry Al-Youm. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Government report calls for review of student support

By Michael Gardner. The federal government’s report, covering the period from 2012 to 2016, emphasises that Germany’s federal education assistance act – Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz or ‘BAFöG’ – has played a key role in higher education. The grant system uses fixed spending levels to calculate financial requirements for students, with grants then being awarded on a means-tested basis. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Investigator proposes more autonomy for universities

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Sweden’s special investigator on higher education, Pam Fredman, has presented a preliminary proposal for reforming the governance and funding of universities and university colleges to improve coordination of goals and strengthen university autonomy. More...

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25 janvier 2018

EU refuses to claim back student debt for Denmark

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The European Union has rebuffed the Danish government’s request for the EU to help it claim back unpaid student debt owed by citizens in EU member states who studied in Denmark and left the country, the major Danish newspaper, Politiken, has reported. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Rector says internationalisation should have limits

By Jan Petter Myklebust. There are limits to how far internationalisation in higher education should grow and it is right to set them, said Rector Magnificus of the University of Amsterdam, Professor Karen IJ Maex, speaking at the celebration of the university’s 368th anniversary on 8 January. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Sectorally mobile researchers are ‘change agents’

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Danish universities need to do more to promote sectoral mobility of researchers (between universities and the private sector), which fosters increased innovation, knowledge turnover, technological development and relevance for research and education, according to the findings of a major investigation by the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy or DFiR. More...

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