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25 janvier 2018

Horizon 2020 backs major push to tackle tinnitus

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Martin Luther, who led the Protestant Reformation, used to suffer tinnitus so badly in his ear that he had to hire a strongman or two to stop him from physically hurting someone or himself during the bouts of pain. At the time he thought his bouts of tinnitus were Satanic punches, but now we know them to be a form of altered neuronal activity. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Universities are sitting on a large pot of unspent funds

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The Swedish National Audit Office, or NAO, has found that Swedish universities and university colleges have accumulated SEK12 billion (US$1.4 billion) in unspent money over the last years, where SEK5 billion (US$593 million) was for higher education. More...

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25 janvier 2018

President announces fee-free undergraduate education

By Sharon Dell. Defying the advice of the commission he appointed to look into the issue of fee-free higher education, South African President Jacob Zuma on Saturday 16 December announced in a statement that the African National Congress-led government would introduce fully subsidised free higher education for poor undergraduate students from 2018. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Blended learning network to overcome faculty shortages

By Maina Waruru. A network of East African universities that will be able to share scarce teaching capacity through the use of 'blended' learning and effective approaches to teaching is in the offing to address staff shortages in the region’s institutions. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Over 100 HE institutions bid for ‘world-class’ upgrade

By Shuriah Niazi. A total of 100 of India’s top universities and colleges are vying to be named 'institutions of eminence’ as part of the country’s higher education reforms to upgrade around 20 institutions into ‘world-class’ universities within the next 10 years. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Mass detention and dismissal of academics continues

By Brendan O’Malley. A further 438 members of Turkey’s higher education community have faced criminal detentions, investigations and prosecutions since July. Some 698 have been dismissed or expelled from their institutions and subjected to restrictions on their ability to travel. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Developing countries showing way to fight fraud

By Brendan O’Malley. When Peter Okebukola was appointed executive secretary of the National Universities Commission, or NUC, in Nigeria in 2001, one of the first things he decided to do was move against satellite campuses that were selling certificates, a major source of academic fraud. More...

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25 janvier 2018

International students worth £22.6 billion to economy

By Brendan O’Malley. International students are contributing £22.6 billion (US$31 billion) to the UK economy, 10 times their cost, and are worth £310 per UK resident, according to a detailed analysis of the costs and benefits to the UK of welcoming 231,000 new international students each year. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Government unveils plans for two-year bachelor degrees

By Brendan O’Malley. The United Kingdom government has announced plans for two-year accelerated bachelor degrees that it claims could save students up to £25,000 (US$33,000) compared with taking the degree over three years in the normal way. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Higher education funding divide grows across Europe

By Brendan O’Malley. The findings of the Public Funding Observatory Report 2017, published by the European University Association or EUA, also show that while 2012 was the year of “deepest crisis” for universities in Europe with the largest number of systems cutting funding, any recovery that can now be detected is slow and fragile. More...

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