White House commits to Open Access

WASHINGTON (infojustice) -- The White House released its 2016-2017 Open Government National Action Plan, which includes commitments to expand access to open educational resources and the results of federally funded research. The commitment has been highly anticipated since this summer, after more than 100 civil society organisations had rallied for it ... read more

TTIP endangers Open Access and Open Source

SAN FRANCISCO (eff) -- Open access isn’t explicitly covered in any of the secretive trade negotiations that are currently underway. But that doesn’t mean that they won’t have a negative impact on those seeking to publish or use open access materials ... read more 21.10.2015

Google ranks top searches for overseas students

LONDON (bbc) -- The university website is the modern prospectus — and the battle for students is taking place online. Google has revealed data about the top destinations for where people are searching for university information abroad ... read more 28.10.15

In Germany, only 2% of Bachelor courses in English

BERLIN (spiegel) -- A high entry barrier to universities for thousands of refugees currently arriving in Germany will be linguistical. Only two percent of Bachelor courses are offered in English ... read more 25.10.2015

Siemens in business with Hungarian universities

BUDAPEST (bbj) -- The Hungarian subsidiary of Siemens is donating modern automatising products and development software to four Hungarian universities. The equipment will compliment the technological facilities of workshops. Also this month, President Viktor Orbán inaugurated a publicly cofinanced training centre of Siemens in Budapest ... read more | and here 27.10.2015

UK academics announce Israel boycott

LONDON (newsweek) -- Hundreds of British professors and lecturers are planning an academic boycott of Israel’s institutions of education, saying the schools are complicit in Israeli violations of international law. The boycott was announced in a full-page ad in The Guardian and was a direct response to an ad published in the same paper a week earlier, in which 150 British authors, artists, and musicians - including Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling - expressed their opposition to a cultural boycott of Israel ... read more | and here 27.10.2015

Counterfeit degrees help Syrians escape to Europe

DAMASCUS (worldcrunch) -- Hundreds of Syrian university degrees are reportedly being forged every day, putting the reputation of Syrian academics at serious risk. But counterfeiters say their only concern is helping their countrymen find a “safe way out” ... read more 27.10.2015

Horizon 2020 success rates down

BRUSSELS (cw) -- The percentage of research proposals winning grants in the early stages of Horizon 2020, Europe’s main research funding programme, is down sharply compared to FP7. A Commission report has caused concern among the research community and EU officials. “What is clear is that the funding situation of universities in many countries across Europe is getting more and more difficult,” says Lidia Borrell-Damián, director at the European University Association ... read more 28.10.2015

Erasmus+ for India?

NEW DELHI (education diary) -- At a workshop in New Delhi, a delegation of the EU with the Association of Indian Universities discussed participation opportunities in EU-funded programmes such as Erasmus+ and Marie Curie Actions ... read more 26.10.2015

Russian universities focus on subject-based rankings

MOSCOW (rbth) -- Russian universities will aim to rise in international subject-based rankings, rather than institutional ones, vice premier minister Olga Golodets told reporters. This was due to a different organisational structure of Russian institutions, she said, “for example, you’ll hardly find universities in other countries that only teach medicine” ... read more 22.10.

€1 billion for Italian research in 2016

ROME (corriere) -- In 2016, Italian universities can assume 5000 researchers in permanent contracts, education minister Stefania Giannini has announced. This will inverse the loss of thousands in the last ten years, she said. The one billion euros for this purpose are part of the 2.5 billion euro budget of the National Research Programme (PNR) for 2015 and 2016 allocated to: internationalisation, research infrastructures, human resources, private-public partnerships and South ... read more | and here 26.10.2015

Spain: Private universities intransparent

MADRID (tele5) -- Half of Spains universities do not reveal publicly the employment status of their staff. This, among other results, emerged from a transparency study in Spanish higher education. The study also shows that 80 percent of public universities publish their statistics on the web, while only 31 percent of the private institutions do so ... read more 28.10.2015

France reduces funding for Grandes Écoles

PARIS (savoirs) -- Private universities in France, such as Grandes Écoles, lament the decrease of their state funding which was reduced by one percent in 2015. However, cuts in the years before were 7 and 13 percent respectively ... read more 21.10.2015

Saudi students face racial discrimination in Eastern Europe

VIENNA (ibt) -- Saudi students face racial discrimination at a number of universities including Slovenia, Romania, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic, a diplomat has alleged ... read more 19.10.2015

Public universities is the US in decline

WASHINGTON (csmoitor) -- If the current pace of state funding continues, some estimates suggest that the system of state public universities could vanish within the next 100 years. Both conservative states like Kansas, and more liberal ones like California, have recently struggled with declines in revenue and thus, in student support ... read more 21.10

Nijmegen students unheard

NIJMEGEN (ans) -- Students of the University of Nijmegen, a city in eastern Netherlands near to Germany, have protested against a higher threshold to pass the first years of studies. They consider it a lack of democracy that the Executive Board of the university does not have to heed the student union’s voice in the matter ... read more 23.10.2015

University of Siena founded 775 years ago

SIENA (intoscana) -- She has passed her seven years of crisis, says rector Angelo Riccaboni, who will open the 775th academic year of the University of Siena. The university’s future focus will be on internationalisation, it will welcome 500 rectors from 88 nations at the conference of the International University Association (IAU). The alma mater also celebrates the 750th birthday of Dante Alighieri whose Divine Comedy marks the beginning of Renaissance in Europe ... read more 28.10.2015

Christmas is over for science publishers

NIJMEGEN (standard) -- Only after the 14 Dutch universities stepped up united against the corporate power of the big scientific publishing houses (Springer, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Wiley, Sage and MacMillan), things started to change. Elsevier has still time to respond to an offer, otherwise all Dutch universities will cancel their subscriptions by the end of the year ... read more 20.10.

Meanwhile, a European university initiative demanding that “research funding should go to research, not to publishers” has gathered over 440 supporters ... read more 15.10.2015

“I can has cheezberger?” — Solidarity among scientists

INTERNATIONAL (bbc) -- It might be against the law to download copyrighted material without paying for it. But some scientists are using a Twitter hashtag to help their colleagues to get access to research papers ... read more 21.10

Muslim hackers attack French universities

PARIS (cryptosphere) -- A hacker crew has cracked and defaced the websites of various French universities (and of NASA in the United States). They wrote the defaces were retaliation for anti-Muslim bigotry and racism in the French system. “We do not like the French educational system, we think that we’re being imprisoned.” The group claims to be preparing a much larger strike against the entire French post-secondary system ... read more 20.10.2015

One in five British youngsters depressed or anxious

LONDON (bbc) -- A study on the wellbeing of UK citizens in school and student age found a high level of satisfaction, but also progressively more negative perceptions of their own physical health. Universities are asked to engage more ... read more 20.10.2015

Where Estonian students would like to work

VILNIUS (baltic course) -- According to a poll, one third of Estonian students would prefer to work in the public sector, half in the private sector; Skype is the most valued employer for them, followed by the State Forest Management Centre ... read more 21.10.2015

Britain plans tougher English tests to cut international student numbers

LONDON (div) -- British ministers are on a “collision course with universities” over plans to introduce tougher English Language tests to cut the number of international students coming to the country by 25,000 a year. Prime Minister, David Cameron, has pushed for Britain’s language tests to become tougher, while the Home Secretary, Theresa May, wants to crackdown on those students who can’t speak proper English ... read more 14.10.2015

French students march over universities crisis

PARIS (the local) -- Students took to the streets of Paris on Friday to protest against the sorry state of French universities, which are suffering from overcrowding and a chronic lack of funding ... read more 16.10.2015

Norway expands internationalisation to new countries

OSLO (nordic page) -- Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and Japan are not countries that Norway have cooperated extensively with in higher education and research. Education minister, Torbjørn Røe Isaksen, wants to change this ... read more 14.10.2015

Spanishg research director fired for political stance

SEVILLA (science insider) -- Juan José Negro, head of one of Spain’s premier ecology institutes says he has been dismissed for publicly voicing his opposition to a controversial mining project. More than 300 Spanish ecological groups issued a public statement condemning the move as “regrettable political interference” that is “curtailing the independence of public and committed science” ... read more 07.10.2015

No news for Maltese universities

VALETTA (malta independent) -- The Maltese budget for 2016 includes a stipend for elder citizens going to universities and a higher allowance for Gozitan students. The trade unions critizised the budget for a lack of concrete proposals in education and the fact that the pension age has been raised, which could disincentivise people from pursuing their studies at doctorate and post-doctorate level ... read more 12.10.2015

Universities in images

BERLIN (esna) -- Following his books on the world’s most beautiful libraries and opera houses, the photographer Guillaume de Laubier now turns his lens toward a new aspect of world heritage: universities ... read more | or here

TTIP — clash of education systems

BERLIN (spektrum) -- The German rector’s conference (HRK) has asked the European Commission to exclude education from the transatlantice trade treaty TTIP. In Europe, they say, education is a public service, in the US a private investment. Some spurious arguments to mellow the academic community’s critical stance on the trade deal ... read more 15.10.2015

Chinese business school invests in Zurich

ZURICH (financial times) -- While European business schools continue to investigate ways of moving into the China market, one Chinese school, CEIBS, which was set up in Shanghai 20 years ago, has turned the tables by acquiring a European business school for 16.5 million Swiss francs (15 million euros) ... read more 16.10.2015

OECD replaces AHELO

PARIS (uwn) -- The OECD plans to replace the discredited Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes. AHELO’s successor project with the aim of “benchmarking higher education systems performance” apparently comes much closer to the OECD’s usual market-oriented rhetoric ... read more 15.10

The business education competition ranking race run

GENEVA (wef) -- The global thermometer of university health is always on, one ranking hunts the next, today it is the “Global Competitiveness Report 2015-16” assessing 140 economies on the quality of their education systems as evaluated by business leaders ... read more 9.10.

Financially drained Greek universities on their knees

ATHENS (efsyn) -- The budget of Greek universities was 1/4 short this year, and it will be further 20 percent lower in 2016. That’s why rectors asked education minister Nikos Filis to exempt them from paying municipal taxes, reduce their tariffs for electricity and give them more leeway in handling with university endowments. However, the ministry is intent upon changing the way rectors are elected ... read more | and here 12.10

Scientific mafia strikes in Serbia

Private universities in Portugal: higher fees, but discounts

LISBON (económico) -- After a steep drop in applications, Portugal’s private universities offer tuition fee discounts of 80 percent as well as grants for excellent students. Between the discounts and the fact that fees have been raised recently, is a logical connection, says Ricardo Leite Pinto, vice-chancellor of Universidades Lusíada ... read more 13.10.2015

Turkish students attacked in Poland

SŁUPSK (news.pl) -- A group of students from Turkey were attacked and told to “go back to their country” on Monday in Słupsk, northern Poland. Police have arrested three men aged between 29 and 41 for beating the four exchange students in the city’s university district ... read more 12.10.2015

How to make Spanish students ‘entrepreneurial’

Science publishers cash in double with Open Access

BRUSSELS (ec) -- EU science commissioner Carlos Moedas and Dutch state secretary Sander Dekker have called on scientific publishers to adapt their business models to new realities. In a meeting, they reiterated the Commission’s commitment to Open Access. In their joint statement, excessive profits of science publishers remained unmentioned, but not the fact that publishers now, in a phase of transition, ‘double-dip’ i.e. accept payment twice for OA and for journal subscriptions ... read more 12.10.2015

Next calls for Horizon 2020

BRUSSELS (seenews) -- The European Commission will expand funding available under the Horizon 2020 programme to almost 16 billion euros, with 1 billion specially earmarked for energy-related activities within the new 2016-2017 work programme ... read more | press release 15.10

Students have little impact on UK general elections

LONDON (huffpost) -- Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, it appears, cannot rely on students to return Labour to power as they had far less impact on the general election than expected, higher education experts have said. Those hit by a trebling of tuition fees failed to wield their strength at the ballot box ... read more 15.10.2015

Highest respect for teachers in China

LONDON (bbc) -- Teachers in China have the highest levels of public respect, according to an international study comparing their status in 21 countries. Next on the winner’s rostrum are teachers in Greece and Turkey ... read more 1510

The manna of foreign students

BRATISLAVA (slovak spectator) -- Slovaks who study in the Czech Republic bring more than 24 million euros to its economy every year – paying taxes, for accommodation, food and entertainment ... read more 12.10.2015

Refugees and MOOC economics in Vienna

VIENNA (standard) -- With 50.000 euros, the Technical University and the University of Economics in Vienna have started bulding a production studio for massive open online courses. As student numbers rise, TU vice-rector Kurt Matyas admitted, digital offers are necessary. At the same time, MOOCs for refugees are being tested ... read more 08.10.2015

University of Edinburgh’s impressive impact

EDINBURGH (sn) -- The University of Edinburgh adds £2 billion annually to the Scottish economy. For every £1 invested by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), the University generates £9.53 for the Scottish economy, according to an economic impact study ... read more 07.10.2015

Wallonia: Hidden cuts of public scholarships?

BRUSSELS (sudinfo) -- The Federation of French-speaking students in Belgium, FEF, accuses Walloon education minister Jean-Claude Marcourt of concealing cuts in student grants amounting to 15 million euro in his amendment to the higher education law. Marcourt has denied allegations that the application for scholarships would become more dificult as “unfounded speculations” ... read more | and here 27.09.2015

Danish research has to tighten the belt

COPENHAGEN (uwn) -- The Danish research community has reacted angrily to the government’s proposal to cut 1.4 billion crowns (190 million euros) off next year’s 22 billion crown research budget ... read more 02.10.2015

Switzerland: Call for noncommercial research

BERN (blick) -- In its latest report, the Swiss Science and Innovation Council has called for more basic research which is not guided by particular economical interests. Science policy should heed more citizens’ concerns and create free spaces instead of forcing scientists into a corset of competition. The Council also demands more emphasis on domestic science careers and not only the intake of foreign researchers ... read more 5.10.15

France: 35 measures to improve student life

PARIS (le monde) -- At the anniversary of French student centres CROUS, president François Hollande announced measures to improve living conditions of students. These measures include more staff for student support, more help for incoming and outgoing students, encouraging voluntary engagement, health advice and longer library opening hours ... read more | and here 08.10.2015

Norway increases budget for education and research

OSLO (gov) -- The will be more public money for vocational training and kindergardens in 2016, the Norwegian government has announced, and funding for higher education will increase by 100 million crowns (11 million euros) in 2016. Funding for research and development will grow by 2.1 billion crowns (229 million euros) next year ... read more 07.10.2015

Mobile payment app at University of Barcelona

BASEL (yahoo) -- The eWallet provider cashcloud is currently showcasing its mobile payment solution at the University of Barcelona. Their app covers key functions relating to purchases, payments, collecting bonus points and social messaging. Olaf Taupitz, managing director of the company, promised after the third-largest university in Spain with approximately 87,000 students, “similar campaigns at other universities in the medium to long-term” will follow ... read more 12.10.2015

University of Stuttgart builds a research factory

STUTTGART (stn) -- Construction works of a 27-million-euro factory Arena 2036 on the campus of the University of Stuttgart have begun. The factory is a publicly funded cooperation project between the university, industry (BASF, Bosch, Daimler et al.) and major regional research institutes ... read more

EU reforms Bulgarian research infrastructure

Half of EU’s tertiary education underfunded

COPENHAGEN (baltic course) -- At a conference, organised by the Commission and the European Investment Bank in October 2015, EU commissioner Tibor Navracsics underlined the need to reverse the alarming trend of underinvestment for education in the member states. Only half of the EHEA countries invest more than 1.3 percent of their GDP in tertiary education. Additionally, for many of them, funding for Research & Development takes up a big part of this budget ... read more 07.10.2015

China now spends more on science than the EU

New Seal of Excellence for regional research policy

BRUSSELS (neurope) -- By awarding a “Seal of Excellence” to top quality research projects submitted under the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, regions will be able to more easily make quality research investments under structural and  other funding sources ... read more 12.10.2015

Scottish rectors disfavour elections

EDINBURGH (scotsman) -- A Scottish law proposal to democratise universities has met with harsh opposition. Timothy O’Shea, principal of Edinburgh University, said elections for university chairs, as foreseen by the Higher Education Scotland Bill, could give ministers far-reaching powers over higher education, changing the way universities were governed ... read more 13.10.

New Confucius Institute in Bratislava

BRATISLAVA (slovak spectator) -- Last year’s debates seem long forgotten, when a polemical campaign against the cultural branch of Chinese foreign policy, the Confucius Institutes, in the US, in Europe and especially in the UK swept through the media. A new Confucius Institute has juat been opened at the British Comenius University in Bratislava ... read more 13.10.2015

Stanford Unibersity distances itself from von der Leyen

BERLIN (welt) -- Stanford University has issued a statement distancing itself from Ursula von der Leyen, the German defense minister suspected of plagiarism who lists study activities at the Californian institution in 1993 and 1995 in her CV. The university release reads “we would consider people who list things of that nature on a resume as misusing the Stanford University name” ... read more 11.10.2015

Fake students at Cyprian universities

‘Incestuous recruiting’ at French universities

PARIS (the local) -- In a feature article, the online paper The Local highlights basic problems of the French university system. One of the “biggest problems” besides overcrowding and underfunding seems to be elitism and “incestuous recruiting” of graduates among the political and corporate elites ... read more 09.10.2015

YOUR OPINION: Would Brexit damage British universities?

LONDON (guardian) -- The British newspaper The Guardian asks readers to share their views about the effects of the UK leaving the EU on the university and research sector ... participate 09.10.2015

First European Chess University Championship

YEREVAN (armenpress) -- The European Chess Universities Championship is held for the first time, 25 university teams representing nine countries participate in the event. Armenian education minister Armen Ashotyan welcomed the 82 athletes in Yerevan saying that no effort will be spared to assure them that they came to a chess superstate ... read more 08.10.2015

Commission launches initiative to help refugee scientists

Global shortage of teachers

PARIS (unesco) -- New UNESCO projections, released on World Teachers’ Day, show that massive teacher shortages will continue to deny millions of children the right to primary education ... read more 05.10.2015

Next round of Russia’s 5-100 project

MOSCOW (pienews) -- Russia’s campaign to internationalise universities and the project to push five of them up into the top 100 of international rankings has begun its second application phase. To receive special funding, universities must present international strategies including mobility tactics, business plans, research facilities, campus infrastructure improvements and management reorganisation. According to Julia Selyukova, head of university marketing and development for the project, the universities must also contribute a substantial amount of their own funding in order to see their plans succeed ... read more 06.10.2015

European university mergers mapped

German plagiat discredits medicine PhDs

BERLIN (dpa) -- The recently discovered plagiarism in the doctoral thesis of German defense minister, Ursula von der Leyen, sheds a negative light on doctoral degrees in medicine, German physicians say. The general number of PhDs in Germany, as the number of students, is rising: 28.000 in 2014 compared to 23.000 ten years before ... read more 05.10.2015

Universities fear assessment of teaching quality

PARIS (the) -- Commenting on the project for teaching quality at universities, AHELO, Andreas Schleicher, OECD director for education and skills, told journalists that it cannot be launched at present following “very high” resistance, particularly from elite institutions. He added that an “insufficient” number of governments were also willing to run with the project. He suggested that universities needed to demonstrate their worth as they “no longer have a very strong voice in the debate in the economy and corporate sector on what kind of skills are needed for the 21st century. And that’s worrying” ... read more 02.10.2015

Germany: Students and refugees compete for flats

BERLIN (tagesspiegel) -- 2300 applicants for a place in a student dorm — that’s a record in Berlin. Rents in shared appartments are skyrocketing, too: in Munich to an average of 540 euros. A new factor are refugees, as soon as they will leave their first accomodations, experts say, they will look for cheap flats in cities like students ... read more | and here 29.09.2015

‘Pretty curious’ campaign is not pc

LONDON (nature) -- An initiative of a British power company to encourage girls to study science has met much criticism. One concerned scientist tweeted from Tunbridge Wells, the assumption “that most girls want to be pretty, and that it’s a potential mechanism to interest them in STEM, is sexism.” The company admitted the intention to attract attention and a “diverse, skilled workforce” and because the UK overall is facing a shortage of engineers.... read more 01.10.2015

Rat race of internationalisation

POZNAŃ (inside highered) -- Researchers who asked if internationally well connected scientists in Europe are more productive in terms of publications, found their expected surprise: yes they are ... read more 01.10.2015

Educated fins are drawn abroad

HELSINKI (ht) -- An estimated 15,500 people —including roughly 10,000 Finnish citizens— emigrated from Finland in 2014. The majority are of working age and usually hold a higher education degree, and many of them in the fields of commerce and technology. The longer they stay abroad, the less likely they are to return ... read more 05.10.2015

Financial gamblers in the Austrian student foundation

What British universities get from the EU

LONDON (fullfact) -- Only Germany received more from the Commission’s research fund than the UK in 2007-2013, and not by much. British universities are heavily represented in the top 50 of higher education institutions ranked by success attracting in EU grants ... read more 05.10.2015

BP Off Campus

WARWICK (guardian) -- Students at one of Britain’s top universities have written to their chancellor calling on him to shut down a BP archive based at the campus library in what amounts to an escalation of campaigns against fossil fuel companies ... read more 04.10.2015

Undercover agents at Romanian universities

BUCAREST (df) -- Your best friend — a spy? many students ask. But the police sends undercover agents who behave like students into the university to discover corruption. And they are successful ... read more 05.10.2015

France: University autonomy in terms of real estate

PARIS (l’opinion) -- Should universities have more freedom to create income through their real estate? That is the question —the magic keyword is “devolution”— that some commentators of the financial squeeze of French universities answer with a yes. But to pass property from the State to the universities is a complicated process ... read more 30.9.15

Extraordinary scale of PhD fraud in Russia

MOSCOW (the) -- With more than 3,500 falsified theses identified by the anti-plagiarism group Dissernet in the past two years, PhD forgery is now an “integral part of Russia’s statehood”. But unlike in the West, says Dissernet’s founder Andrey Rostovtsev, “most of the authors under scrutiny have most probably never written a single page of their dissertations and might have never read them or even seen them at all” ... read more 04.10.2015

Low success rate of Horizon 2020 bids

Universities buy goods made with forced labour

The political corruption of Greek academia

ATHENS (euroscientist) -- The combination of abundant highly qualified scientists and brain drain in most extreme in Greece. The roots of this problem affect European science at-large, they lie in the lamentable lack of funding, stiff hierarchical systems that stifle young investigators, nepotism, general corruption, and political interference ... read more 05.10.2015

VW scandal - a wake-up call for regulatory science

LONDON (nature) -- The research community has an opportunity here. It must use the Volkswagen crisis to highlight a broader problem: how regulatory science is funded, conducted and used ... read more 29.09.2015

High expectations: a new university hospital

AUGSBURG (aa) -- When ready in 2018, Augsburg’s new university hospital will create 100 new professorhips and attract companies to the southern German city region, says president Sabine Doering-Manteuffel ... read more

Campus of Strasbourg becomes a park

Roma III gets serious with student-centred investments

ROME (div) -- While a recent report condemns hiking tuition fees in Italy which vary between universities and regions and reflect in no way social and regional concerns, the third university of Rome has announced a special investment programme. Roma III will put 600,000 euro in reducing fees, student assistance and mobility ... read more 24./28.09.2015

Platform launched against corruption in education

Turkish opposition woos students and universities

ANKARA (worldbulletin) -- Turkey’s main opposition party CHP presented their manifesto for the upcoming general election on November 1st. Party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu promised that he would remove the Higher Education Board (YOK) and universities would become independent, adding that students would receive grants and graduates would be sent abroad to do their doctorates ... read more 30.09.2015

Dutch Machiavellian struggles

THE HAGUE (scienceguide) -- Red tape is a bad word. And education minister Jet Bussemaker who promises less bureaucracy by merging the institutions that supervise university quality and efficiency into one, first met with approval among rectors. But now they feel uneasy about the growing state control coming along with the envisaged Higher Education Authority ... read more 30.9

Armenia supports Belarus’ Bologna integration

YEREVAN (armenpress) -- Armenia as a country, who had assumed Bologna Secretariat for the last three years, has always assisted its partner Belarus, as education minister Armen Ashotyan emphasised. He promised to pass his integration experience in the European Higher Education Area to Belarus as well as to other members of the Eurasian Economic Union ... read more 29.9.15

Bulgarian education minister: Parties out of academia!

SVISHTOV (dnevnik) -- Political parties ought to stay out of universities, education minister Todor Tanev said in his inaugural speech of the academic year in Svishtov, northern Bulgaria. He alluded to a conflict involving his ministry this summer about the appointment of the rector of the Economics Academy in Svishtov ... read more | and here 28.09.2015

Cryptocurrencies into science

LONDON (nature) -- 14.6 million Bitcoin units are in circulation, market value: 3.4 billion dollar. And on 15 September, Bitcoin officially came of age in academia with the launch of Ledger, the first journal dedicated to cryptocurrency research ... read more

100 global minds across disciplines

UK: Student housing business booms

LONDON (property wire) -- London’s full time student population is expected to rise by 50 percent in the next ten years while capital flows into student housing is expected to triple ... read more 29.09.2015

New York wants to make Computer Science mandatory

NEW YORK (think progress) -- New York City mayor Bill de Blasio plans to make computer science mandatory in all public schools. De Blasio’s $81 million (€72 million) plan feeds on the city’s booming tech scene, which has grown almost 60 percent since 2007 and accounts for nearly six percent of the U.S. private job workforce ... read more 16.09.2015

More Portuguese want to study

LISBON (público) -- Both public and private universities in Portugal show a continuing increase of applications. At the private Universidade Europeia the number of applicants has risen by 30 percent ... read more 28.09.2015

German racist reminds scientists of licensing issues

BERLIN (science) -- A German scientist and inventor is revoking the license to his bioinformatics software for researchers working in eight European countries because those countries allow too many immigrants to cross their borders. The affair shows that it is important for scientists to be knowledgeable about licensing issues when using software ... read more 29.09.2015