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Indian universities should emulate Nalanda: Lord Swraj Paul
Indian universities, which failed to make it to the top 200 World University Rankings, should draw inspiration from ancient academies like Nalanda to be recognised globally, says NRI industrialist Lord...
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“Singapore universities reviewing curriculum”
Amid a rapidly changing tertiary education landscape — and one that is increasingly competitive as new entrants join the fray — the republic’s oldest university, the National University of Singapore...
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Asian universities catching up
Asian universities are gaining on their Western counterparts, according to the recently released Times Higher Education rankings. The annual evaluations of world universities found Asian universities...
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Canada: International students essential to Quebec’s prosperity
Munroe-Blum, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University Universities, however, need more support in their efforts to recruit and retain those students, says Principal Munroe-Blum. Quebec must...
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Universal character of Malaysian universities
By Datuk Dr Ibrahim Ahmad Bajunid QUALITY: MQA has helped make our higher education a brand of Malaysian excellence IN the 1990s, four decades after independence, Malaysia articulated the agenda of...
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New report focuses on development of quality assurance in African higher...
A new report published by (European University Association) EUA presents the outcomes of a two-year pilot project designed to support the development of quality assurance (QA) in African higher...
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Innovative teaching not technology alone has greatest impact in the...
Digital technologies in the classroom must go hand in hand with innovative teaching to have a true impact on educational achievements, research involving academics at The University of Nottingham has...
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Academic link with Brazil a boon for Ireland
Conor O’Carroll Some 1,500 PhD students from Brazil will stimulate our research activity The student population in Ireland has changed significantly over the past 10 years and the economic crisis is...
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Government to partner private universities for quality education – President...
President John Dramani Mahama said the government would partner private universities to provide quality education for the youth. This, he said, would reduce the yawning gap between the private and...
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Mismatch: Universities on rise but students in decline
By Mizuho Aoki Education minister Makiko Tanaka drew immediate flak in early November when she outright refused her advisory panel’s recommendation to approve three new universities. The outspoken...
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Russia shakes up its universities
Vladimir Putin Government plans to close struggling institutions and increase funding to the best The New Year is unlikely to be a happy one for thousands of Russian university teachers and students...
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India is a world-class country without world-class universities: Philip G...
Among the world’s influential thinkers in higher education, Philip G Altbach, author, researcher and professor at Boston College, says India is characterised by some pinnacles of excellence in a sea...
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Q&A: Imran Rahman, paleontologist, University of Bristol
Picture a paleontologist and visions of cutting-edge technology don’t usually spring to mind. You might envision a khaki-clad scientist brushing dirt off a frail fossil, or maybe a lab-coated...
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Don’t let the knowledge society dilute research quality in Europe’s universities
Gunnar Öquist Gunnar Öquist and Mats Benner Sweden has a reputation for great research – but policy leaders there are sounding an alarm about a decline in quality. A new study has implications for...
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Opinion: Budget cuts put universities in a bind
The third meeting in preparation for Quebec’s summit on higher education is just a few days away. Given that the topic of this meeting is university funding and governance, it seems important to...
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Setting an online example in educating women
By Lisa L. Martin and Barbara F. Walter The United States is leading a revolution in higher education. With the advent of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, U.S. universities will be increasingly...
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Universities might have to limit monitoring, set social media policies in...
In an age when voluntarily sharing one’s intimate information on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites is common, a proposal to limit what content universities have access to seems out of...
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Opinion: University budget cuts will hamper educator training
By Helene Perrault Over the last 12 months, Quebec has been subjected to a deep social crisis in which students have taken centre stage to denounce our university system, and more specifically to...
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University rectors want Summit to look at education quality
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois and Minister for Higher Education Pierre Duchesne, shown here in September, will meet with ASSE to discuss potential student uprisings during the education summit....
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Opinion: Free university education not just a francophone thing
Nadia Hausfather is vice-president (external) of the Graduate Students’ Assocation of Concordia University. By Nadia Hausfather The two-day summit on higher education will end today, and yet even...
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