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AFRICA: Continent-wide space agency being considered

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 10:47
Africa is a step closer to setting up its own space agency, with the ...

GLOBAL: Shanghai rankings: Shifting research landscape

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 10:06
In recent years, something like a small-scale industry has developed with commentators earnestly trying to read long-term trends into the rise and fall of various universities in the former THE-QS ...

ISRAEL: University defies right-wing boycott threat

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 10:00
The President of Ben-Gurion University of Negev has pledged to ignore threats by a right-wing political group to incite a boycott by international and other donors if staff and curriculum changes a...

CANADA: New ways used to help students find roommates

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:55
Connie Wang had two stipulations as she interviewed potential roommates ahead of the school year - they must understand that she is loud, and they must also love "Glee", the hit musical television ...

CHINA: Paper check system created to prevent plagiarism

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:52
A university term paper checking system has been developed in China by its second largest computer producer, TsinghuaTongfang, to prevent plagiarism among college students, the Beijing-based ...

INDIA-AFRICA: Phase-II of e-network project launched

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:50
India has launched the second phase of the pan-Africa e-network, adding 12 more countries to the New Delhi-aided long distance education and tele-medicine programme, reports In...

ISRAEL: Plan to raise state funding for higher education

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:45
The Council for Higher Education last week presented a plan designed to reform Israeli higher education, write Lior Dattel and Moti Bassok for Haaretz. It calls for an a...

POLAND: Empty university degrees

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:40
There is a revolution brewing in Polish higher education as universities grapple with wrenching demographic changes as well as trying to figure out how to train students for advanced degrees while ...

US: Abandoning an digital publishing experiment

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:36
Rice University Press is being shut down next month, ending an experiment in an all-digital model of scholarly publishing, writes Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed. Whi...

US: Ups and downs in foreign graduate admissions

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:33
Admissions offers by American graduate schools to international applicants increased by 3% from 2009 to 2010, reversing a 1% decline the previous year, according to a report released last week by t...

INDIA: Expert panel to prove university autonomy

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:30
India's Human Resource Development Ministry has set up a high-powered committee, under legal expert NR Madhava Menon to come with a comprehensive policy on the issue of autonomy for higher educatio...

EGYPT: Universities to scrap textbooks and go digital

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:27
To many academics and students in Egypt, Minister of Higher Educatio...

SOUTH AFRICA: Decline in PhD numbers a major problem

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:25
South Africa's inability to produce enough doctoral graduates to bui...

KENYA: Call for 'tribal' vice-chancellors to be moved

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:20
A body formed to help curb ethnicity and boost cohesion in Kenya in ...

NIGERIA: Oversea seminars for legislators slammed

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:15
Academics at Nigerian universities have once again condemned the use...

ZAMBIA: Spotlight on education and health research

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:13
In recent updates to parliament, lawmakers heard of plans to strengt...

NAMIBIA: Team to research drug-resistant malaria

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:11
The University of Namibia has pulled together a multi-disciplinary t...

ETHIOPIA: Expanding and improving higher education

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:09
Ethiopia is radically expanding its higher education sector: from two federal universities to 22 in just over a decade and another 10 to open soon. Even so, the percentage of the available cohort t...

UK-AFRICA: New guide to higher education partnerships

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:07
North-South partnerships between educational institutions are viewed as an important way in which the human and institutional capacity of African universities can be improved. But building and main...

RWANDA: Building research capacity from within

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 09:05
The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa, CARTA, aims to foster multidisciplinary research capacity in population and public health by teaming African universities, African research ...