“A number of academic journals and magazines have been ordered to cease publication by the Chinese authorities in a new crackdown on sub-standard academic papers in China …” (more)
[Yojana Sharma, University World News, 27 February]
“In David Lodge’s 1984 Booker-listed novel Small World, one of the main protagonists, Professor Morris Zapp, declares that ‘the world is a global campus … the American Express card has replaced the library pass’. Just over twenty-five years later Ben Wildavsky investigates the globalisation of Higher Education, and implicitly whether Lodge’s vision has come to fruition …” (more)
[Matthew Partridge, British Politics and Policy at LSE, 27 February]
“… In Arizona, known for its gun-friendly ways, state lawmakers are pushing three bills this year focused on arming professors and others over the age of 21 on Arizona campuses. Sponsors talk of how professors and students are now sitting ducks for the next deranged gunman to charge through the classroom door …” (more)
[Marc Lacey, New York Times, 26 February]
“… With €50bn of the bailout needed to fund public pay and pension liabilities – mainly of existing staff – and a further €100bn in future liabilities, the cost of the bank bailout, awful though it is, pales in comparison. But, unlike the banks, politicians depend utterly on the public service. Our new emperor isn’t to blame for this. But his pension entitlement as a former teacher is a symbol of an age-old problem …” (more)
[Marc Coleman, Independent, 27 February]
“The rise in Europe’s student population and public funding cuts across the continent are combining to produce an unprecedented higher education crisis which can only be met by much greater diversifying of income sources, experts heard in Brussels on Tuesday at the launch of a major European Universities Association survey of 27 countries …” (more)
[David Haworth, University World News, 27 February]
“A new blue-ribbon commission has been assembled in a bid to put the humanities and social sciences on an equal footing on the public agenda with science, technology, engineering and mathematics …” (more)
[Dan Berrett, University World News, 27 February]
“Controversy over links between the London School of Economics and Libyan regime intensified last night, as it emerged that Saif al-Islam, the Libyan leader’s son, could be stripped of his doctorate …” (more)
[Jonathan Owen, Independent, 27 February]
“The first question many undergraduates ask professors on the first day of class is whether they really have to show up. The way they phrase it is a bit more subtle …” (more)
[Jeffrey R Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 February]
“Scottish universities want to charge students fees of £12,000 (US$19,376) for a four-year degree under confidential proposals …” (more)
[Andrew Denholm, University World News, 27 February]
“A human rights lawyer has come under fire for pursuing a ‘leftist agenda’ after challenging the coalition government’s tuition fees increase and library closures …” (more)
[Tim Edwards, The First Post, 24 February]
“Twitter is the new prospectus: students advised to follow profs at their target universities. Implications? http://yhoo.it/hHsFJx #ucas” (tweet)
[Patrick McGhee, Twitter, 26 February]
“UL 1-17 Limerick IT 2-11 Thomas O’Brien’s 61st-minute goal saw the University of Limerick gain their first Ulster Bank Fitzgibbon Cup title since 2002, after a battling display at Waterford IT this afternoon …” (more)
[BreakingNews.ie, 26 February]
“Founding president of the University of Limerick Dr Ed Walsh is among the five ‘exceptional individuals’ to be conferred with honorary doctorates by the university in a ceremony later this year …” (more)
[Limerick Leader, 26 February]
“More than 100 students have gathered outside a Conservative conference in London to protest at the scrapping of Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) …” (more)
[BBC News, 26 February]
“If the Supreme Court gives universities greater control over the inventions created by their faculty and grad students, the Court should also require universities to publish metrics that shed light into how they are managing their invention portfolios …” (more)
[Melba Kurman, Blogging Innovation, 26 February]
“I have just finished calculating the correlation between the scores for the academic survey and citations per faculty on the 2010 QS world University rankings …” (more)
[University Ranking Watch, 26 February]
“My job is to conduct research and publish the results, so I’ve become interested in discussions on the internet about models of publishing. There are three tensions in the field: (1) who pays to publish research? (2) who decides what gets published? and (3) who takes any profits? …” (more)
[BishopBlog, 26 February]
“The Department of Education has ordered Trinity College Dublin (TCD) to cut the salary for its new provost by almost €11,000 a year, the Irish Independent has learned …” (more)
[John Walshe and Ann Marie Walsh, Independent, 26 February]
“Today we shall probably get a better idea of who will form the next government in Ireland. Once the new administration takes office it will have a number of priority issues on its agenda. It may be tempted to think that higher education is not one of them …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 26 February]
“Forcing students to ‘study’ Irish up to Leaving Cert level is unfair and does little to revive the language in so far as the majority of the students are involved …” (more)
[David J Fitzgerald, Irish Examiner, 26 February]
