9 June 2019  Issue No: 555

India's Ministry of Human Resource Development has unveiled an ambitious and wide-ranging draft National Education Policy – the first in three decades – that would significantly increase demand for higher education places, create new types of higher education institutions and create a new National Research Foundation.

Universities with an ‘open border’ outlook to international ties and collaboration with colleagues abroad were among the best performers in U-Multirank 2019, whose results are a ‘powerful antidote’ to the inward-looking narrow nationalism encouraged by politicians in many countries, the ranking project’s leaders said.

A recent Supreme Court decision over eliminating Filipino and Panitikan from the core curriculum of universities has become a political battleground about the past and future of the Philippines.

Case studies are widely used in graduate business education, but they ignore differing contexts and the need to have an understanding of multiple and changing perspectives in a globalised world, and there is no opportunity to learn by implementing solutions and seeing how they work.

India has a surfeit of software engineers and America needs more. This supply and demand situation, along with steep differences in earnings in the United States and the Indian subcontinent, is inspiring growth in the number of ‘remote’ US jobs for software engineers in India. But there is a gap in coding skill levels between the countries, creating a need for upskilling.

The strong international science partnership between the United States and China suddenly seems to be decaying amid fear, suspicion and a belief that this is the genesis of a new Cold War, in which university labs, where the tools that will control medicine, warfare and the economy are being developed, must be protected.