09 Nov EducationWorld Read more Are teachers going the way of dinosaurs? A new book The Fourth Education Revolution: Will Artificial Intelligence Liberate or Infantilise humanity? (2018)... Continue reading
08 Nov Letter from London – Political correctness virus There are some very sinister and deliberately introduced influences in our society, especially in education,... Continue reading
08 Nov United States – Campus sexual assaults debate Proposed changes to regulations on campus sexual misconduct in the US are a backward step... Continue reading
08 Nov Spain – Fraudulent degrees scandal Even in a country used to academic fraud scandals, the past few months in Spain... Continue reading
08 Nov Kazakhstan – Academic integrity drive The position of Nazarbayev University, named after Kazakhstan’s president, is unique. Established in 2010 as... Continue reading
08 Nov The world university rankings – Tsinghua ranked Asia’s #1 varsity China has stepped up its ascent of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, with... Continue reading
08 Nov France – Arabic teaching-learning row Arabic is a “perfect, smooth and rich language”, wrote Ernest Renan, a 19th century French... Continue reading
08 Nov United Kingdom – Greying faculty profiles The number of academics working past the age of 65 in UK universities has more... Continue reading
08 Nov India-UAE Partnership Summit 2018 His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of State for Tolerance in the... Continue reading
08 Nov Inherent contradiction fallout The people vs. democracy, Yascha Mounk, Harvard University Press; Rs.2,220, Pages 400 In 1944 economic historian Karl Polanyi... Continue reading