Sunday 28 November 2010

University World News 0148 - 29th November 2010

This week's highlights

YOJANA SHARMA reports further on the 6th QS Asia Pacific Professional Leaders in Education (APPLE) conference in Singapore. In Features, DAVID HAWORTH covers a conference on the future of science and technology in Europe, MUNYARADZI MAKONI looks at an expanded scholarship scheme aimed at promoting student mobility in Africa, and SHELDON WEEKS discovers why Botswana's planned second public university is in limbo. In Commentary PHIL BATY, editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, argues that measuring the teaching environment makes the THE exercise the world's most comprehensive, and SIPHO SEEPE reviews the first book on one of South Africa's new millennium university mergers.

NEWS: Our correspondents worldwide report

UK: Foreign students face curbs on jobs and visas
Brendan O'Malley
The Home Secretary has signalled that she intends to clamp down on the number of international students entering the UK labour market when they graduate and dramatically cut the number of pre-tertiary students coming to the country to study.
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JAPAN: University internationalisation scaled back
Suvendrini Kakuchi
The future of Japan's Global 30 project, established by the government just last year to internationalise universities, is in doubt as it is running out of money. The Education Ministry reported that the budget for universities wanting to be part of the project from April 2011 would not be forthcoming. If and when funding comes available, it will only support the 13 universities already selected.
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ASIA: Regional University Networks developing
Ameen Amjad Khan
Four new regional higher education networks are to be set up in Central and South Asia, it emerged from a high-level research and education policy dialogue held in Islamabad, Pakistan, last week.
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AFRICA-EU: Universities want role on political agenda
Munyaradzi Makoni and Karen MacGregor
The role of universities in Africa and cooperation between universities in Africa and Europe have been politically sidelined, according to associations representing more than 1,000 universities on the two continents. They have called on leaders at the 3rd Africa-EU Summit, starting in Tripoli tomorrow, to place higher education centrally on the political agenda.
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DENMARK: Linking immigration to university rankings
Jan Petter Myklebust
New immigration rules for reunited families should favour candidates who graduate from the world's top 20 universities, the Danish government has proposed.
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US: International students pay nearly $19 billion
Sarah King Head
A study released last week by NAFSA: Association of International Educators estimated that international students and their families contributed an impressive $18.78 billion to the US economy during the 2008-09 academic year - an increase of $1 billion over the previous year.
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AUSTRALIA: Foreign student rights overlooked
Geoff Maslen
The Australian Human Rights Commission has criticised the federal and state governments over a strategy they released relating to international students, arguing that it failed to tackle significant problems including affordable housing and safety.
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EAST AFRICA: Publications available but not accessed
Alison Moodie
East African universities have more journals and scholarly research available to them than ever before, yet staff and students do not appear to be accessing these resources enough, according to a recent study.
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AFRICA-INDIA: New ties to strengthen higher education
Munyaradzi Makoni
India's plans to support a string of higher education and training institutions in Africa will help to push student mobility, add to graduate numbers and nurture a development-centred approach, say African Union Commission officials.
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INDIA: Higher education survey will inform policy
Alya Misha
India will for the first time undertake a comprehensive survey to map access, equity and quality in higher education in order to better inform higher education policies and debates. The pan-India census will plot the lives and performance of all attached to the higher education sector and will map who is in college and who has been left out and why, which students earned a scholarship, which candidates graduated and from where, and how many students are studying abroad.
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EUROPE: Funding criteria 'hamper innovation'
Ian R Dobson*
Funding regimes that prevent universities from turning knowledge into innovative products and services need correction, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) says in its response to the European Union's call for Europe to become a more innovation-friendly continent.
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NEW ZEALAND: University to merge with polytechnic
John Gerritsen
New Zealand's smallest university is to merge with one of its smallest polytechnics next year. The government has approved the union of Lincoln University and Telford Rural Polytechnic - both spec ialists in the rural sector and both located in the country's South Island.
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N IGERIA: Six new universities to meet student demand
Tunde Fatunde
The N igerian government has announced the creation of six new federal universities, aimed at improving access to higher education for the hundreds of thousands of qualified school-leavers who miss out on opportunities each year because of the limited number of places in existing institutions.
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ALGERIA: Universities expanding but problems remain
Jane Marshall
As the new academic year started, La Tribune of Algiers reported on the state of affairs at universities around the country, finding considerable expansion but also instances of overcrowded or sub-standard student housing, inadequate or corrupt management, unsatisfactory transport - and some disruption in the introduction of the Bologna higher education structure.
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ASIA: The 6th QS APPLE conference

The 6th QS Asia Pacific Professional Leaders in Education (APPLE)
conference was held in Singapore from 17-19 November. APPLE is one of the region's biggest international higher education conferences, and this year it attracted 120 higher education experts and university leaders from over 85 institutions in the Asia Pacific. In a second set of stories this week, University World News reports on the conference.

ASIA: Going for world-class research universities
Yojana Sharma
Asian countries with growing economies and high tertiary enrolment rates now want to push on to build world-class research universities. But developing a 'research culture' will take time, a conference of Asia Pacific Professional Leaders in Education (APPLE) heard in Singapore this month.
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ASIA: A plea for university ratings, not rankings
Yojana Sharma
World university rankings criteria are not reliable enough and universities are too diverse to make accurate comparisons, a conference of Asia Pacific Professional Leaders in Education (APPLE) heard in Singapore this month.
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NEWSBRIEFS

DR CONGO: Nearly 100 'non-viable' universities shut
A total of 98 higher education instituions have been closed in five provinces following an audit and an inquiry into their 'viability', reported Infos Plus of Libreville, Gabon.
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CÃ"TE D'IVOIRE: Violence in run-up to election
Just days before this weekend's second round of the presidential election, students in Cocody were attacked by young activists from the RHDP political grouping because they did not support the right candidate, according to press reports. Meanwhile, the US Ambassador warned there would be no future scholarships under its Hubert H Humphrey programme "without a democratic election".
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STUDENT VIEWS

UK: Overseas students question university cuts
Alya Mishra
International students already at universities in the United Kingdom have looked on in astonishment as the government proposed a three-fold increase in domestic tuition fees and swingeing cuts to university funding in England which will hit the social sciences and humanities especially hard.
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FEATURES

EUROPE: Basic and applied science crucial to success
David Haworth
Too few universities teach about turning science into specific products that can be sold on the markets, and too many lack entrepreneurship departments to instruct on how ideas can be turned into money, Dr Bernd Huber, President of Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, told some 300 researchers at a conference in Brussels on the future of Europe's science and technology.
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AFRICA: Continental student mobility scheme expanded
Munyaradzi Makoni
The major expansion of a pan-African student mobility scheme was announced in Cape Town last week. The European Union has committed EUR35 million (US$46.5 million) to the Mwalimu Nyerere African Scholarship Scheme, which is aimed at promoting student exchange and stemming the African brain drain. It will provide scholarships for 250 postgraduate students to study in another African country.
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BOTSWANA: New science university languishes in limbo
Sheldon Weeks
The new Botswana International University of Science and Technology, BIUST, at Palapye 260 kilometres nort-heast of the capital Gaborone, faces further delays and a reduction in its vision to be a world-class university. New decisions by the government could alter its scope and direction, and it looks very unlikely that BIUST will be able to open before August 2011.
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COMMENTARY

GLOBAL: Crucial to measure teaching in rankings
Since being published in September, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings have come in for criticism from some quarters, and praise from others. Rankings editor, PHIL BATY, says lessons have been learned but argues that the new ranking responds to a major global survey and extensive consultation, examines performance across all core university missions and - crucially - is the only ranking to measure the teaching environment.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Reflections on a major merger
At the start of the new millennium South Africa began a radical restructuring of the higher education sector. The number of universities was cut from 36 to 23 through incorporations and mergers - some creating huge universities - aimed at breaking down apartheid's racial divides and transforming the sector. SIPHO SEEPE reviews the first book published on one of the major mergers, the creation of the 40,000-student University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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UNI-LATERAL

US: New York professor embeds 3rd eye in head
This is a teacher who really keeps an eye on things - three eyes, actually - reports The Independent. Wafaa Bilal, an assistant arts professor at New York University, said on Tuesday that a small camera had been put into the back of his head.
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WORLD ROUND-UP

RUSSIA: Scientists protest luring foreign researchers
Russian scientists and university researchers are protesting a Kremlin effort to attract scientists from overseas to work in Russia, saying the government should raise the wages it pays to Russians instead, writes Anna Nemtsova for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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PHILIPPINES: Protests erupt over university funding cuts
Students, academics and officials of state universities in the Philippines on Thursday protested against a billion-peso (US$25 million) cut to the budgets of state universities and colleges, reports ABS-CBN.
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INDONESIA: Mixed reviews for private universities
Motorbikes deliver students - some with helmets over their head-scarves, others with laptops slung across their shoulders - down the wide, tree-lined boulevard, past the mosque's gold dome, around a fenced-off excavation site where a ninth-century Hindu temple was uncovered this year, and onto the campus of the Islamic University of Indonesia, writes Liz Gooch for The New York Times.
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INDIA: Top universities improve research index scores
At a time when scientific and research agencies are worried about fewer academics taking up research, it comes as a surprise that most of the top 50 Indian universities have remarkably improved their H-index scores in the latest rankings by the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies in New Delhi, writes D Suresh Kumar for The Times of India.
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INDIA: 44 million higher education students in 10 years
India's higher education enrolment will increase to 44 million from the current 14 million in a decade, the central government said recently. Private players, distance education and foreign education providers will play key roles in ensuring this growth, reports LiveMint.
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US: Low graduation rates at for-profit colleges
A new report on graduation rates at for-profit colleges by a non-profit research and advocacy group charges that such colleges deliver "little more than crippling debt", citing federal data that suggests only 9% of the first-time, full-time bachelor degree students at the University of Phoenix, the nation's largest for-profit college, graduate within six years, writes Tamar Lewin for The New York Times.
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US: AIDS-tainted razors sent to animal researcher
The FBI and University of California at Los Angeles police are investigating a new round of threats from anti-animal research activists who claimed to have sent AIDS-tainted razor blades and a threatening message to a research professor, a university spokesman said on Tuesday, writes Michael Martinez for CNN.
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US: Yale set to return 4,000 Inca treasures to Peru
As Peru counts down to the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Machu Picchu by the American explorer Hiram Bingham, thousands of artefacts taken from the breathtaking lost city of the Incas could soon be returned to the country, writes Stephen Foley for The Independent.
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SOUTH AFRICA: University divided on affirmative action
The University of Cape Town was once a citadel of white privilege on the majestic slopes of Devil's Peak. At the height of apartheid, it admitted few black or mixed-race students, and they were barred from campus dormitories, even forbidden to attend medical school postmortems on white corpses, writes Celia W Dugger for The New York Times.
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UK: Aimhigher brought down by coalition axe
A national programme that aims to widen participation in higher education in the UK is to be scrapped, writes Rebecca Attwood for Times Higher Education. Speaking at a Universities UK conference in London last week, David Willetts, the universities and science minister, said funding for the Aimhigher programme would cease next year.
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IRELAND: Country looks to academe to re-ignite economy
In an audio-research lab strewn with guitars, Dan Barry and his colleagues at the Dublin Institute of Technology fiddle with a computerised tool that can comb the Irish Traditional Music Archive and locate a jig by its tempo or other traits. An Irish company has already licensed the technology, and the researchers are hoping other companies will follow suit, writes Goldie Blumenstyk for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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CHINA: Top universities to use common entrance exam
Seven prestigious universities in China announced last Sunday that they would begin using the same independent examination - besides the national one - to test students hoping to gain entrance to them in 2011, reports the official Xinhua agency.
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CHINA: Seven universities to assist Tibet University
Seven of China's inland universities, including Peking University, signed 'pairing' assistance agreements in Beijing with Tibet University on 21 November, reports the Chinese government newspaper People's Daily.
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SWEDEN: Universities suffer enrolment drop
The number of first-time students in Sweden's universities declined in the autumn session overall, but the number of new students from other countries increased ahead of the introduction of tuition fees for non-EU students next year, reports The Local.
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Sunday 21 November 2010

University World News 0147 - 21st November 2010

NEWS: Our correspondents worldwide report

GLOBAL: UN forges world partnership with universities
Yojana Sharma
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon last week inaugurated the new United Nations Academic Impact, UNAI, which seeks to generate ideas in partnership with higher education institutions that can help solve global problems.
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ITALY: Mass protests against 'cuts' and reforms
Lee Adendorff
Thousands of students and temporary teachers have taken part in protests in cities across Italy against education cuts and a university reform package under scrutiny in the Italian parliament, despite an eve-of-protest amendment to a budget 'stability' bill that will restore -1 billion (US$1.4 billion) to the higher education sector.
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AUSTRALIA: Government defers standards bill
Geoff Maslen
An outcry from Australia's universities has forced the federal government to hold off until next year introducing legislation to parliament that would establish a new and powerful quality and standards agency. The legislation was to have been tabled last week but Education Minister Chris Evans announced it would be deferred to the autumn session of parliament in 2011.
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SINGAPORE: Yale partnership to go ahead, NUS says
Stanislaus Jude Chan
Despite protests from some academics and political observers over the trial and sentencing of British author Alan Shadrake last week, a tie-up between America's Yale University and the National University of Singapore for a liberal arts college in Singapore looks set to go ahead.
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US: Re-imagining California higher education
Sarah King Head
A report from the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley, has analysed the challenges faced by tertiary education in California and its relationship to economic growth - and proposes some radical solutions for rejuvenating a faltering public higher education system that was once the envy of the world.
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GREECE: Opposition to higher education reform grows
Makki Marseilles
Greece's largest university has called for the government's consultation paper on reform to be rejected on the grounds that its proposals would add to higher education's problems rather than solve them. At another institution, staff held a two-day strike against the proposed reforms.
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ASIA: The 6th QS APPLE conference

The 6th QS Asia Pacific Professional Leaders in Education (APPLE)
conference was held from 17-19 November in Singapore, preceded by a QS university rankings evaluation workshop. APPLE is billed as the region's biggest international higher education conference. It attracted 120 higher education experts and university leaders from over 85 institutions in the Asia Pacific. University World News reports on the conference here, and will publish more articles next week.

GLOBAL: Future top universities below 'rankings radar'

Yojana Sharma Younger universities - those less than 50 years old, which are proliferating in emerging economies in Asia, Africa and the Middle East - may become leading research institutions of the future. However, these potential 'stars' are not being reflected in international university rankings tables.
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ASIA: Universities' rise beginning to eclipse US
Yojana Sharma
Asia's higher education institutions are emerging from the shadow of top universities in the US, Britain and continental Europe and may be on the way to overtaking them, a close analysis of major international rankings tables has shown.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Shuffling the global higher education deck

Decisions by the British government to cut university funding and triple
the cap on tuition fees have sparked student protests, anger in England's higher education sector and warnings that UK universities could lose quality and global competitiveness. As the second most popular destination in the world for international students, and a top research nation, repercussions will also be felt internationally by students hoping to study in England and academics involved in research and collaboration agreements with English institutions.

In this Special Report, University World News gathers the views of vice-chancellors around the world and of students on what the new policies might mean for higher education in the UK and abroad. We also look at a brain drain of French researchers to the US, Germany's efforts to attract foreign students to fill skills gaps, a proposal for a Europe-wide loan scheme aimed at increasing European student mobility, and student mobility to and from America.

UK: Wrong time to raise fees, say global rivals
Brendan O'Malley How will plans to slash 40% of the teaching budget in England and allow universities to raise tuition fees threefold affect the competitive edge of UK universities globally? We asked university leaders around the world to tell us what they think. Some of them conclude that the UK is at a critical tipping point.
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UK: Student officers predict exodus overseas
Diane Spencer
International student officers from Britain's universities fear the country will lose out on the lucrative overseas student market as European students turn to rival institutions in Australia, the US, China and India. Even stay-at-home British students may venture abroad in search of cheaper alternatives in the event of a three-fold increase in the cap on tuition fees proposed by the coalition government and deep cuts to the teaching budget.
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FRANCE: 'More students could turn from UK to US'
Jane Marshall
The planned UK reforms will restrict direct enrolment in English universities to the most privileged French students, as in the US, a French student leader has warned. It could turn more French students towards the US.
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FRANCE: Top researchers lost to the US
Jane Marshall
The brain drain of French academics and researchers to the United States has been accelerating in recent years, and although the number is relatively low it tends to be the most talented who choose to move, according to a report from think tank Institut Montaigne.
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GERMANY: Call for foreign students to fill skills gap
Michael Gardner
Recruitment of foreign students offers strong potential to help Germany cope with its shortage of skilled labour, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) says, calling for a 25% increase over the next decade.
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EUROPE: EU-wide student credit union proposed
Alison Moodie
With student fees in many European countries rising and a patchwork of different loan systems, it was "only a matter of time" before the European Union considered a region-wide scheme, says French higher education researcher Cécile Hoareau. In a just-published paper she proposes an EU student credit union, starting with the Erasmus exchange programme.
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US: Foreign student numbers up, Americans abroad down
Karen MacGregor
There were nearly 700,000 international students at universities and colleges in the United States in 2009-10 - a 3% increase over the previous academic year, driven mostly by 30% growth in Chinese students - according to the Open Doors survey published last week. For the first time there was a slight decline in US students abroad, but "notable increases" in students going to non-traditional destinations, and especially to Peru, South Korea and Chile.
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FEATURES

PAKISTAN: Taliban steps up university attacks
Ameen Amjad Khan
A spate of Taliban kidnappings and killings of vice-chancellors in the north-western region of Pakistan has put universities under attack, with academics fearing for their lives and many leaving their jobs. University leaders spoke to University World News about the terrifying circumstances in which they find themselves.
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INDIA: Canadian universities stress partnerships
Philip Fine
This month a delegation of 15 Canadian university presidents wrapped up a visit to India where great efforts were made to convince the hosts that they were not in their country simply to try and boost Canada's international student enrolment numbers.
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COMMENTARY

GLOBAL: Partnerships thrive on exchange of values
James DeVaney*
As experimentation continues we are seeing an unprecedented number and range of types of global partnerships and educational ventures. But despite the enthusiasm for global expansion, questions about the sustainability of some branch campus models have not yet been answered. To succeed, globally engaged universities must acknowledge the needs of their host communities and communities must acknowledge that foreign universities have their own set of expectations and needs. Regardless of form, mutual value exchange will remain at the core of sustainable partnerships.
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ACADEMIC FREEDOM

IRAN: Student activist arrested
Roisin Joyce*
Ali Gholizadeh, an activist and member of the Daftar Tahkim-e Vahdat student organisation, has been arrested and detained in Mashad, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported on 5 November.
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SCIENCE SCENE

GLOBAL: Women in Science Awards
For the past 13 years, the L'Oréal Corporate Foundation and Unesco have sought to recognise women researchers who, through the scope of their work, have contributed to overcoming global challenges. Each year the For Women in Science Programme highlights scientific excellence and encourages talent.
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WORLD ROUND-UP

GLOBAL: Questionable science behind academic rankings
For institutions that regularly make the Top 10, the autumn announcement of university rankings is an occasion for quiet self-congratulation, writes DD Guttenplan for The New York Times. When Cambridge beat Harvard for the number one spot in the QS World University Rankings this September, Cambridge put out a press release. When Harvard topped the Times Higher Education list a week later, it was Harvard's turn to gloat.
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RUSSIA: Poor rankings performance riles universities
Russian universities are seething after failing to win international recognition in a year when the country has been galvanised by Kremlin calls for modernisation, writes Alexandra Odynova for The Moscow Times. So angry are they that some are calling for the creation of Russia's own university ranking system.
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GLOBAL: Science's fight to win over climate sceptics
This was simply "the worst scientific scandal of a generation" - a bid by researchers to hoodwink the public over global warming and hide evidence showing fossil fuels were not really heating up our planet. These were the dramatic claims made by newspapers, websites and blogs across the globe a year ago, following the hacking of emails from a computer at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, writes Robin McKie for The Observer.
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AFRICA: Reclaim the African academy
African higher education needs to move away from traditional, and unequal, north-south partnerships and forge ties with new partners to truly counter the African brain drain, writes Professor Johann Groenewald, a flagship projects coordinator for Stellenbosch University's graduate school and the African Doctoral Academy, in The Sunday Times.
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US: 30 college presidents topped $1-million in 2008
Nearly four decades after Bernard Lander founded Touro College with a class of 35 students, the trustees decided that he had been underpaid during his tenure as president, writes Andrea Fuller for The Chronicle of Higher Education. To make up for the difference, they awarded him more than US $4-million in deferred compensation in 2008, making him the highest-earning private college president in the 2008-09 fiscal year.
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US: Big win for undocumented students
The California Supreme Court unanimously upheld a state statute affording some undocumented students in-state tuition status, overturning an earlier decision by an appellate court last Monday, writes David Moltz for Inside Higher Ed. California is one of only 10 American states in which undocumented students are eligible to pay in-state tuition.
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CROATIA: University legislation ignites stormy debate
Over the past few months, the academic and scientific communities of Croatia have been voicing displeasure with proposed revisions to national legislation governing the country's universities and science organisations, writes Mico Tatalovic for Science. Critics have argued that the changes would take away university autonomy and freedom of scientific expression because universities and research priorities would come under direct governmental control.
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INDIA: Plans for major survey of higher education
A country getting younger has decided to map its youth population. From who is in college and who has been left out and why, to which student earned a scholarship, to which candidate graduated from where - a kind of pan-India census would plot the lives and performance of all those attached to the higher education sector - reports The Times of India.
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UK: 'Xenophobic' students shun foreign universities
British students may be shunning foreign universities because of "innate xenophobia", according to a report, writes Graeme Paton for The Telegraph. Research published last week suggests that Britain's "history of colonial mastery and insularity" could be preventing people taking higher education courses abroad.
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UK: Fees hike 'will deter most poorer students' - poll
The UK government's plans to raise tuition fees to £6,000 (US$9,630) a year will lead to a dramatic fall in the number of students from disadvantaged backgrounds going to university, new research suggests, write Rachel Williams and Jeevan Vasagar for The Guardian.
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SCOTLAND: Students 'could lose out' to fee refugees
Scottish universities have warned they could be swamped with thousands of students from England escaping higher fees, writes Andrew Denholm for The Herald. Fears over 'fee refugees' pushing out Scottish students were raised at a national summit on future funding of higher education, held in Glasgow and chaired by Michael Russell, the Education Secretary.
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US: Online enrolments - speeding towards a slowdown?
Online college enrolments in the US grew by 21% to 5.6 million last autumn, the biggest percentage increase in several years, according to a report released last week by the Sloan Consortium and the Babson Survey Research Group, writes Steve Kolowich for Inside Higher Ed.
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US: There is no college cost crisis
There is no college cost crisis, writes Stanley Fish, professor of humanities and law at Florida International University, in the "Opinionator" blog of The New York Times. That at least is the conclusion reached by the economists Robert B Archibald and David H Feldman in their new book, Why Does College Cost So Much?
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CANADA: Teaching takes a back seat to research
The current focus on research - and securing research funding - at Canadian universities could be taking away from teaching, writes Jacob Serebrin for Macleans. According to a new survey by the Ontario government's Higher Education Quality Council only 61% of professors "believe that teaching is important or very important to their institution".
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INDIA: UK university to award degree in India
As India prepares to open its doors to foreign universities, at least one British university already has a foot in the door through a joint venture with the University of Madras and several other Indian institutions, writes Hasan Suroor for The Hindu.
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Sunday 14 November 2010

University World News 0146 - 14th November 2010

This week's highlights

In Features, ALYA MISHRA reports on visits to India by universities from the US, Canada and Europe and PHILIP FINE interviews Canadian Amanda Lindhout, who responded to her 15-month abduction in Somalia by creating scholarships for Somali women to attend university. YOJANA SHARMA looks at a new policy to impose the Chinese language in schools in Qinghai and its impact on access to higher education for ethnic Tibetans, and STANISLAUS JUDE CHAN traces a shift in scientific Singapore towards the liberal arts through a tie-up with Yale. In Commentary, MICHAEL GALLAGHER of Australia's Group of Eight universities discusses how countries have tackled quality assurance, and MUNYARADZI MAKONI reports on round-table higher education debates at Rhodes University in South Africa.

NEWS: Our correspondents worldwide report

UK: Violence overshadows student fees protests
Diane Spencer
For the first time in decades, a student protest ended in violence on Wednesday night with missiles hurled at police and windows smashed at Conservative Party headquarters in London's Westminster. At least 50 people were arrested and 14 taken to hospital including seven policemen. The demonstration was called to protest against the coalition government's plans to raise the cap on tuition fees by three-fold to £9,000 (US$12,350) and impose cuts of 40% on teaching budgets.
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GLOBAL: US, Europe and Japan challenged in R&D
Geoff Maslen
While the US, Europe and Japan may still be leading the global research and development effort, they are increasingly being challenged by emerging countries, especially China. This is one of the findings of the UNESCO Science Report 2010, launched at the organisation's headquarters in Paris on World Science Day, 10 November.
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PAKISTAN: Strike over vice-chancellor's abduction
Ameen Amjad Khan
Just weeks after Pakistan's universities shut down in protest against cuts to higher education funding, institutions in the sensitive north-west region of the country have again been closed, this time to put pressure on the government for the safe recovery of a prominent vice-chancellor kidnapped by the Taliban.
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AUSTRALIA: Alarm over proposed quality agency
Geoff Maslen
Plans by the federal government to introduce legislation this month covering quality assurance and academic standards have raised fears that the nation's universities will lose much of their autonomy and possibly some of their funding. A new Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency is to be created to replace the Australian Universities Quality Agency, which conducts audits of all institutions but lacks the authority to oblige them to adopt its recommendations.
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AUSTRALIA: Tougher test for would-be migrants
Geoff Maslen
Foreign students hoping to remain in Australia as permanent residents face far stricter entry rules under changes announced on Thursday by Immigration Minister Chris Bowen. The government's decision to further tighten migration eligibility requirements could have a serious impact on the already faltering recruitment of foreign students, especially those from China and India which are the two largest source countries for universities.
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RUSSIA: Drive to lure foreign scientists begins
Eugene Vorotnikov
The Russian government has launched an 11 billion ruble (US$360 million) drive to attract foreign scientists to work in local universities to enhance the international competitiveness of the country's domestic science and higher education. The scientists are being lured with research grants expected to range from three million rubles up to 150 million rubles.
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IRAN: Dissolution of medical university sparks protest
Yojana Sharma
A decision by the health ministry to dissolve one of Iran's largest and most prominent medical universities has sparked protests, including from legislators disputing the ministry's right to close it.
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AFRICA: Lessons from US foundation collaboration
Sharon Dell
A "highly unusual" 10-year higher education partnership between seven US foundations, each with its distinct brand of organisational culture, leadership style and mission, is guaranteed to generate interesting lessons and valuable advice for future collaborations. These have been collected in a newly-published case study which tracks the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, PHEA, which began in 2000 and whose members invested US$440 million in 65 universities across nine African countries.
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EGYPT: Campus police protests divide academics
Ashraf Khaled
When a group of lecturers pushing for the independence of universities in Egypt went to Ain Shams University, the country's second biggest public higher education institution, they did not expect to be chased by armed youths, spark campus protests and have a brush with the law. But that is what happened and the incident has divided the academic community.
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INDONESIA: Universities disrupted by volcanic ash
David Jardine
When the world's most active volcano Mount Merapi - the 'mountain of fire' - erupted recently, the ash cloud heavily inundated the neighbouring city of Yogjakarta, known in Indonesia for its large number of higher education institutions.
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N IGERIA: Teachers oppose salary differentials
Tunde Fatunde
Strikes are sweeping across N igerian universities in a dispute over salary differentials. Teaching in most of the state universities has been disrupted although federal universities continue to run lectures.
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US: Chinese help spur modest graduate increase
Sarah King Head
The latest Council of Graduate Schools' (CGS) International Graduate Admissions Survey shows the zero growth reported last year has been replaced by gains of 3% in current first-time enrolments to US graduate schools. But the big story is the sustained, double-digit growth in enrolment of first-time Chinese students to US graduate programmes.
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CHINA-UK: New campus for Nottingham in Shanghai
Yojana Sharma
Nottingham University has been invited by the Shanghai city government to set up a new British-Chinese university that will be able to attract top students and faculty. The move is seen as part of the Chinese government's push to draw more overseas academic talent, including overseas Chinese, to the country. China also hopes to attract some 10,000 more foreign students.
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DENMARK: Small languages under threat as cuts bite
Jan Petter Myklebust
Danish universities are considering merging more than 20 languages with other academic disciplines to cope with cuts in state funding, prompting a public outcry.
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GERMANY: University opens with five students
Michael Gardner
A private university of applied sciences that has begun teaching activities with just five students is said to be running the most expensive higher education courses in Germany.
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SENEGAL: Parliament debates higher education
Jane Marshall
Parliament has approved the budget for higher education, universities, regional university centres and scientific research - with the hope that prompt payment of students' grants through speeding up the banking process will avoid a repetition of strikes and disruption.
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FEATURES

INDIA: A global higher education magnet
Alya Mishra
In the same week as US President Barack Obama visited the country, universities from the US, Canada and Europe have been beating a path to India to collaborate with Indian higher educational institutions. Experts say this is not just about education but building strategic and economic partnerships in a globalised world.
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SOMALIA-CANADA: Forgiveness in scholarships
Philip Fine
Eleven young Somali women, who did not have the means to go to university and who all want to use their education to help their troubled country, are on track to undergraduate degrees and attending classes this semester thanks to the efforts of a Canadian woman who had been brutally held captive in their country.
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TIBET: Language policy threatens tertiary access
Yojana Sharma
Student protests against the Qinghai provincial government's new policy to impose the Chinese language in all schools in the predominantly Tibetan area spread quickly to Beijing's Minzu University for minorities, and highlighted wider issues of Tibetans' access to higher education and jobs.
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SINGAPORE: A shift from science to humanities
Stanislaus Jude Chan
For decades Singapore invested heavily in mathematics and science education, driving it to the top in international school league tables and boosting science and technology research in universities. But now the government wants to increase liberal arts students, and is supporting a proposed tie-up with Yale University.
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COMMENTARY

GLOBAL: The challenge of quality assurance
How the quality of a university education can be assured and standards of teaching and research maintained is an issue that governments and higher education institutions around the world continue to confront. In a paper discussing how different countries have tackled this topic, as Australia is at present, the Executive Director of the Australian Group of Eight universities, MICHAEL GALLAGHER, considers the responsibility of government and the university in assuring quality.
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GLOBAL: The university, diversity and autonomy
Munyaradzi Makoni
What is a 'real' university? asked Gordon Graham, a professor of philosophy and the arts at Princeton Theological Seminary in the US, at a round-table discussion at Rhodes University in South Africa last month. He offered a critical comparison of three 'ideal types' that have played a significant role in the history of higher education across the world, and called for a relook at professional education as a way to resist current threats to university autonomy.
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SOUTH AFRICA: A transformative higher education agenda
Munyaradzi Makoni
The focus of higher education in South Africa has been on policies and reforms and their impacts. What is sorely needed, says Adam Habib, Deputy Vice-chancellor of the University of Johannesburg, is engaged executives who critically reflect on their managerial experiences "leading to lessons that can advance a socially progressive higher education agenda".
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GLOBAL: Unesco pulls plug on Philosophy Day in Iran
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation decided last week to pull the plug on another embarrassment to its reputation, dissociating itself from this year's celebration of philosophy, to be held in Iran in less than two weeks, writes Steven Erlanger for The New York Times.
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INDIA: Higher education spending to rise 13% yearly
India's expenditure on higher education will grow nearly 13% annually in the next 10 years driven by the private sector, said a report released by Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday, writes Prashant K Nanda for LiveMint.com.
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UK: Reluctance to study abroad a 'pressing issue'
A new study suggests that Britain's economic future could be jeopardised unless more students embrace overseas experience, reports The Guardian.
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AUSTRALIA: Biometric scans for foreign students
Foreign students will be included in a trial of biometric checks as part of a wider campaign to weed out potential terrorists, writes Guy Healy for The Australian.
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CHINA: US exam botch frustrates Chinese students
Following the cancellation last month of thousands of Graduate Record Examination scores in China due to administrative problems, a growing number of Chinese students are speaking out about what they say is an insufficient and ineffective response by the US company that runs the exam, writes Mary Hennock for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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US: For-profit drops suit against community college
When Fort Lauderdale-based Keiser University took one of Florida's community college's to court last month for slander, the suit garnered national attention as evidence of just how nasty the debate over for-profit colleges had become, writes Michael Vasquez for The Miami Herald.
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US: Money fuels environmentalist boom on campuses
Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, has pledged to be completely carbon-neutral by 2020. On the West Coast, the University of California-Santa Cruz saves an estimated $300,000 on water each year by eliminating trays in its dining halls. And the University of Georgia, which subsidises public transportation on campus, now has nearly 30 student organisations related to sustainability, writes Brian Wingfield for Forbes.com.
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MEXICO: Comparative study makes case for universities
It can be lonely at the top, especially when it comes to global university rankings. So in 2008, researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the sole Mexican university to break into the top 200 in international rankings, decided to see how their institution stacked up against its rivals in Mexico, writes Marion Lloyd for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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SCOTLAND: Free higher education must end - report
Free higher education in Scotland is under threat after a report published by Universities Scotland confirmed that tuition fees must be reviewed, writes Kathryn Richardson for The Journal.
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ISRAEL: Minister halts Tel Aviv University funding
Israeli Minister of Finance Yuval Steinitz last week ordered Accountant General Shuki Oren to immediately stop budget transfers to Tel Aviv University because of "salary irregularities", reports Globes.
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INDIA: Mumbai academics want Mistry book back
The University of Mumbai's Academic Staff Association wants Rohinton Mistry's book, Such a Long Journey, to be reintroduced, writes Mihika Basu for the Daily News & Analysis.
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Sunday 7 November 2010

University World News 0145 - 7th November 2010

This week's highlights

In the Features section this week AMEEN AMJAD KHAN looks at the plight of
scholarship students who have not received funding following radical cuts to the higher education budget in Pakistan, JANE MARSHALL reports on the OECD Education Ministerial Meeting held in Paris last week, and EVA EGRON-POLAK and ROSS HUDSON summarise the findings of a survey into internationalisation that they co-authored for the International Association of Universities. In Commentary, SAEED PAIVANDI compares efforts to Islamise universities in Iran to the 'cultural revolution' three decades ago, and MOHAMED ALI ABDUL RAHMAN, a senior official in Malaysia's Ministry of Higher Education, charts the rise of private higher education.

NEWS: Our correspondents worldwide report

UK: Élite universities laud freedom to triple fees
Diane Spencer
The UK's coalition government is set to allow universities in England to raise their fees up to three-fold, to a maximum of £9,000 (US$14,640) in 2012, providing they take part in a scholarship scheme for poorer students. While universities say there will be no impact on overseas students for the immediate future, the 118,000 students from EU countries studying in the UK, who under EU rules are charged the same rate as local students, will be affected.
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SRI LANKA: Private universities bill sparks protests
Maya D'Souza
Major student unrest at Sri Lankan universities over government plans to allow the setting up of private institutions looks set to escalate, with students stepping up demonstrations last week and more campaigns organised by student groups in the coming days. Dozens of students have been arrested and some 200 suspended from their institutions.
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AUSTRALIA: Alarming fall in Chinese student numbers
Geoff Maslen
For the first time in more than 14 years, an Australian minister for tertiary education has gone to China to try to head off a potentially disastrous collapse in the number of young Chinese studying in Australia.
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SINGAPORE: Conviction casts doubt on Yale tie-up
Yojana Sharma
A Singaporean verdict against British author Alan Shadrake has been watched closely around the world, in particular by Yale University in the US, which is discussing collaboration with National University of Singapore. Shadrake was found guilty on Wednesday of contempt of court for casting doubt on the independence of Singapore's judiciary in a recent book.
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DENMARK: Drive to boost study abroad
Jan Petter Myklebust
The Danish Ministry for Science, Technology and Education has launched a campaign to substantially increase the number of Danish students studying abroad. Charlotte Sahl-Madsen, Minister for Science, Technology and Development, said she wants studying abroad to become the rule rather than the exception.
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JAPAN: Volunteer plan to ease graduate joblessness
Suvendrini Kakuchi
A new plan for university students with state-funded loans to undertake volunteer work is being drawn up by Japan's education ministry and the Japan Student Services Organisation, JASSO, as rising unemployment rates among graduates make it difficult for students to pay off study debt.
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GLOBAL: Engineer shortage threatens development
An acute and growing shortage of engineers worldwide has become a threat to global development, a new Unesco report has revealed. It is based on contributions by 120 experts and is the first global report on engineering.
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GERMANY-TURKEY: Joint university founded in Istanbul
Michael Gardner
Germany and Turkey have founded a new university in Istanbul. The Deutsch-Türkische Universität (DTU) is to focus on engineering sciences and engage in intensive cooperation with industry, but will also be providing a platform for cultural exchange.
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INDONESIA: Troubled Aceh celebrates student successes
David Jardine
Aceh, one of several Indonesian provinces beset by separatist conflict, has been sending students abroad for university studies as part of its development efforts in the wake of the devastating 2004 tsunami.
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CANADA: Unmotivated students seem to take more jobs
Elysha Krupp
Financial aid is an important factor in keeping students in university, but attitude may be just as important, according to a recent study that looked at 10,000 low-income first-year students who were receiving government student aid.
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GLOBAL: Nobel laureates slam Israel academic boycotts
Munyaradzi Makoni
The recent threat of a boycott by the University of Johannesburg in South Africa against Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel has prompted 38 Nobel laureates to issue a statement condemning boycotts and divestment campaigns against Israeli academics and academic institutions.
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ZAMBIA: Presidential degree requirement scrapped
The National Constitutional Conference has scrapped a clause requiring any future presidential candidate to posses a recognised degree. The degree clause had come in for a barrage of criticism, being viewed as an attempt to block some of the country's political players such as opposition leader Michael Sata.
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FEATURES

PAKISTAN: Scholarship cuts leave students in lurch
Ameen Amjad Khan
Izhar Ahmed, an academic at Islamia University Peshawar, was selected on merit for PhD studies in botany at the University of York in the United Kingdom, encouraged by Pakistan's Faculty Development Programme to improve his academic qualifications. He succeeded in securing a government scholarship - but has now learned that he will not receive the money, the result of a severe cutback in higher education funding this year.
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GLOBAL: OECD ministers debate education for new skills
Jane Marshall
The kinds of skills workers need are changing rapidly, and education and training systems must adapt to equip young people for different kinds of jobs, new technologies and unforeseen problems. Teachers, as the key professionals on the front line, are facing new demands and expectations. Meanwhile, countries are grappling with multiple effects of the global financial crisis.
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GLOBAL: Internationalisation: past, present, future
A global survey by the International Association of Universities has concluded that future developments and reforms of higher education will give a central place to the internationalisation process, write its co-authors EVA EGRON-POLAK and ROSS HUDSON. But the global economic crisis will most likely slow down - or impose some limits on - certain internationalisation activities.
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COMMENTARY

IRAN: Second higher education Cultural Revolution?
Saeed Paivandi*
Since the presidential elections in 2009 Iran's universities have been under attack, with measures brought in to 'Islamise' faculty and course content. The ideological campaign eerily echoes moves to Islamise universities after the Islamic Republic was proclaimed in 1979.
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MALAYSIA: Models in private higher education
Mohamed Ali Abdul Rahman*
Malaysia has encouraged the growth of private higher education institutions, including some set up by big business and branch campuses of overseas universities, to complement public universities. But it has also put in place regulations to ensure that private institutions are of quality and respond to the country's need to produce graduates who can compete globally.
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SCIENCE SCENE

UK: Mobile networks from human wireless
Humans could form the backbone of powerful new mobile internet networks by carrying wearable sensors, according to researchers at Queen's University in Belfast. The researchers say the novel human sensors could create new ultra-high bandwidth mobile internet infrastructures and reduce the density of mobile phone base stations.
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AFRICA: New plant health centre of excellence
Munyaradzi Makoni
Trade opportunities for African countries are set to increase, along with improved cross-border surveillance of pests and diseases, with the creation of a Centre of Phytosanitary Excellence for Africa to prevent the introduction and spread of plant pests.
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AUSTRALIA: Dark chocolate and heart disease
Geoff Maslen
Could this be a chocaholic's dream come true? Research at RMIT University in Melbourne suggests that eating dark chocolate has the potential to reduce the risk factors leading to heart disease.
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UK: Home secretary promises immigration crackdown
The UK home secretary, Theresa May, is to end the right to permanent settlement for more than 100,000 skilled workers and overseas students who come to Britain each year, writes Alan Travis for The Guardian.
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ISRAEL: Academics warn on dangers of ethics code
Isreal's Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar has proposed a 'code of ethics' on the limits of academic freedom at higher education institutions. But academics say the code would endanger academic freedom, writes Or Kashti for Haaretz.
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US: University endowments 'healing' after crisis
University and college endowments in the United States gained an average 13% in the past year, recouping part of their losses from the global financial crisis, reports Gillian Wee for The Sydney Morning Herald.
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US: Poll results may mean tighter university budgets
The recent midterm elections in the US - in which the Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives and some key governors' offices - are likely to add to the financial pressures on colleges and universities, writes Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed.
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MEXICO: Lack of funds puts top university in crisis
The University of Guadalajara, one of Mexico's leading universities, said it has been in a "critical" financial situation for several months because of the Jalisco state government's failure to deliver 701 million pesos ($56.5 million) in funding, reports the Latin American Herald Tribune.
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SCOTLAND: Universities face thousands of job cuts
Higher Education leaders say funding cuts of more than £150 million (US$244 million) for Scottish universities next year will lead to thousands of job losses, cuts in courses and lasting damage to the sector's international reputation, reports Andrew Denholm for The Herald.
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UK: Graduate unemployment rate reaches new high
Unemployment among graduates in the UK is at its highest in nearly two decades as thousands struggle to find work, the Mirror reports. Some 8.9% of those who left university last year (around 21,000) were without a job six months later as graduates suffered from the effects of the recession, according to a study by the Higher Education Careers Services Unit.
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MALAYSIA: Over-50s targeted to boost PhD numbers
Students pursuing their degree or PhD at higher learning institutions after reaching the age of 50 may enjoy free or reduced tuition fee under a proposal by the higher education ministry, reports the official news agency Bernama.
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MALAYSIA: Universities in China to be recognised
An agreement is in sight for universities in China to be recognised by Malaysia's Higher Education Ministry, writes Joshua Foong for The Star. Deputy Minister Datuk Dr Hou Kok Chung said the ministry was in the final stages of having several universities and higher learning institutions in China accredited.
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US: Obama leads universities to India
Yale and Duke universities are among dozens of United States colleges that India is recruiting to help educate its population, which has more than 550 million people under the age of 25, reports Bloomberg.
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CANADA: University divided over PhD award dispute
A former child prodigy who became a mathematics professor at age 24 has been suspended from the University of Manitoba in Canada for protesting its decision to award a PhD to a student who failed to meet the formal requirements, in part because of an anxiety disorder, writes Joseph Brean for the National Post.
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INDIA: World-first aviation university to open
The Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (Capa) and the Bangalore-based Subramanya Construction and Development Company (SCDC) signed a joint venture agreement to set up the world's first integrated aviation university and training campus in the Karnataka capital, reports The Hindustan Times.
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ISRAEL: Students protest funds for Torah study
Dozens of students came out to demonstrate and burn tyres at Ben-Gurion, Tel Aviv and Hebrew universities last week, to protest the bill that would restore income allowances to yeshiva (Talmudic studies) students, writes Asaf Shtull-Trauring for Haaretz.
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ZIMBABWE: Ministry mulls recalling retired lecturers
The Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education is considering plans to call back retired lecturers in a bid to address the shortage of staff at colleges as a result of the brain drain, reports Talk Zimbabwe.
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ZIMBABWE: Desperate students turn to p rostitution
Desperate students are being forced into p rostitution as the cost of higher education spirals out of reach for the majority of the country's university and college students, reports New Zimbabwe.
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US: More high market value courses on the web
Until recently, if you wanted to take Professor Rebecca Henderson's course in advanced strategy to understand the long-term roots of successful companies, you needed to be a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Henderson taught at the prestigious Sloan School of Management, writes DD Guttenplan for the New York Times.
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