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EUROPE

Europe leads in student mobility, but lacks policy

Brendan O'Malley

Given the great importance that most governments in Europe attribute to student and academic mobility in public statements, and the 1.5 million non-Europeans now studying in the region, it is remarkable how few have comprehensive and systematic mobility policies, a just-released study for the European Commission has found.

World Blog

UKRAINE

Draft higher education law is retrogressive

Serhiy Kvit

The new draft law on higher education in Ukraine is a retrogressive step and will obstruct integration with Europe. The country needs to promote autonomy for universities and freedom of speech, rather than the current lack of accountability.

Commentary

EUROPE

Universities are not becoming ‘Americanised’

Georg Krücken

Although the US has been a forerunner of transformations taking place in European higher education, it would be a mistake to view this as the ‘Americanisation’ of universities. Nations and institutions can take on similar changes but adapt them to their circumstances and history.

UNITED KINGDOM

Study abroad's impact on the student self

Qing Gu

What is the impact of studying abroad on students? UK research suggests the benefits are many, with students subjected to a reflexive process of change, adjustment and development through interaction with a different educational and cultural environment.

GLOBAL

Humanitarian work can aid internationalisation

Tom Vickers and Lena Dominelli

Getting students involved in humanitarian projects overseas can provide many benefits, not just for those students who take part but also for the university as a whole.

World Round-up

UNITED STATES

Obama puts HE on notice

Inside Higher Ed

UNITED STATES

Students bear the burden of state cuts

Time

UNITED KINGDOM

Private universities plan dropped

The Telegraph

UNITED KINGDOM

Teaching grants slashed by 18%

Public Finance

CZECH REPUBLIC

Students oppose university reforms

The Prague Post

JAPAN

Universities mull switch in calendar

The Mainichi Daily News

CAMBODIA

Private universities create vibrant hub

The New York Times

MALAYSIA

Universities given autonomy ‘to excel’

Bernama

INDIA

Plan moots greater college autonomy

Indian Express

IRELAND

University presidents oppose new university

The Irish Times

UNITED STATES

Who gets to see published research?

The Chronicle of Higher Education

UNITED KINGDOM

Students seek to overturn protest ban

Guardian

UNITED KINGDOM

New service to help internationalise

Times Higher Education

AUSTRALIA

Axe alternative medicine study - Call

Melbourne Weekly

SOUTH AFRICA

Study probes engineering failure rates

Engineering News

UNITED KINGDOM

More universities teach media studies

Guardian

Breaking News

EUROPE

Warning over slow research reform

Brendan O'Malley and Jan Petter Myklebust

European Union Research Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has warned that she will “name and shame” member states that fail to speed up reform of research. “With Europe crying out for growth, the European Research Area can't wait any longer,” she said.

UNITED KINGDOM

University applications fall

Brendan O'Malley

SOUTH KOREA

Students angered by low fee reductions

Han-Suk Kim

AUSTRALIA

Better job prospects for foreign students

Geoff Maslen

SENEGAL

President’s adjudication fails to halt HE crisis

Mamadou Mika Lom

News

EUROPE

Universities call for big push on research area challenges

David Haworth

The European Union must make huge efforts to attract research talent from around the world if its ambitious plan to launch a European Research Area in two years is to succeed, a League of European Research Universities conference agreed last week.

BELARUS

Exclusion from European HE area must continue

Jan Petter Myklebust

GLOBAL

Rising number and changing focus of think-tanks

Eileen Travers

UNITED STATES

Bertelsmann courting US Hispanic student market

Alison Moodie

DENMARK

Minister wants all students to study abroad

Jan Petter Myklebust

KENYA

Cash injection to save student loans scheme

Gilbert Nganga

ZIMBABWE

Lecturers strike, student loans uncertain

Kudzai Mashininga

NIGERIA

Lecturers, students oppose fuel subsidy removal

Tunde Fatunde

SYRIA

Centre to set national admissions criteria

Wagdy Sawahel

GREECE

University service helps second language speakers

Makki Marseilles

GAMBIA

Year of science, technology and innovation

Wagdy Sawahel

Features

HONG KONG

Opinion surveys land universities in trouble

Yojana Sharma

Opinion surveys, a common source of research information in universities around the world, have become a political minefield for Hong Kong’s universities, with recent surveys landing academics in trouble with Beijing.

INDIA

Top university announces four-year degree plan

Alya Mishra

Delhi University has announced that it will extend its degrees to four years from 2013 to make undergraduate education more broad-based and introduce more interdisciplinary education. It is a trend-setting move recommended by national planners.

MYANMAR

Released student activists ponder their future

Naw Say Phaw Waa

Among the 651 political prisoners released by President Thein Sein under an historic 13 January amnesty were some of Myanmar’s most popular politicians and activists, including 1988-generation student leaders. There were also around 15 young student activists who had been jailed following the 2007 ‘Saffron Revolution’.