Vince Cable, the UK business secretary, has opened the door to radical changes in the structure and funding of UK higher education in a landscape of reduced public investment, with potential innovations including bigger graduate contributions for high earners, the ...
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The leaders of some of the US’s most prestigious universities want to see open source for publicly funded research become law. Senior academic officers of 27 major US universities have backed a plan for open access to publicly funded research, ...
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Universities around the world have trumpeted international branch campuses as concrete evidence that their “brands” can compete on the global stage. They are seen as footholds in new markets and ways to tap into otherwise inaccessible research. But two analyses ...
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The murder of an Indian student in Melbourne prompts call for cross-border agency to improve security. Governments must unite to tackle the problem of international student security as a matter of “global public good”, a world higher education conference has ...
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