Facebook bans student’s naked anti-Donald Trump protest
LONDON (metro) -- Emma Dyason, 19, posted the images to protest against US President Donald Trump. The student from Oxfordshire, UK, said: “Last week I produced a photo shoot, taking a feminist/protest approach by writing sexist quotes made by Trump onto scrap pieces of cardboard, and having women pose ‘nude’ in the aim to empower women.” A day later, Facebook had removed it and threatened to close her account ... read more 24.02.2017
Paris-Saclay criticised for lack of strategy
PARIS (nature) -- Does the €5-billion super-university-science-cluster Paris-Saclay created by former French president Nicolas Sarkozy lack of an overall strategy and does it risk remaining a mere geographical grouping of higher-education and research establishments without any “real coherence and international visibility,” as an auditor’s report says? Saclay president Gilles Bloch counters and noted, picking up on the idea that Paris-Saclay should be more like California’s Silicon Valley than like MIT, that the valley has no real governance, and needs none. The original idea for Saclay was a science and technology cluster, not an integrated university ... read more 08.02.2017
Swiss universties shift to Open Access
BERN (msi) -- The national roof organisation swissuniversities has approved the National Strategy on Open Access that will make all publicly financed research results publicly and freely accessible by 2024 ... read more 1.3.17
Inverse discrimination at Norwegian universities
OSLO (nordic page) -- Psychology is much more popular amongst women than men in Oslo and Bergen. That is why the universities in those cities want to reserve 30 percent of the places for men. The government has announced that an updated version of the Gender Equality Act, aimed at ensuring equality for men in academia, will be presented this year ... read more 10.2.17
How ‘competitive’ is your region?
BRUSSELS (satpr) -- The 2016 edition of the European regional index on competitiveness has an interactive web tool for a more detailed analysis and comparison. The 2016 results are in line with those for 2013: strong capital and metropolitan areas can be observed as the main drivers of competition; spill over effects in most of north-western Europe, not so in the east and south; high levels of within-country variation ... read more 27.02.2017
Police disperse student protest in Ankara
ANKARA (rt) -- Police have broken up a gathering of students at Ankara University campus, protesting the mass expulsion of academics. They stepped in after they heard some “Kurdish music” ... read more | and here 24.02.2017
Paris protests: Students tear-gassed by police
PARIS (cnn) -- Hundreds of students on Thursday blockaded the entrances to their schools in Paris, demanding justice for a young black man who was allegedly raped by French police earlier this month. Protests are also reported to have taken place in Montpellier ... read more 23.02.2017
Belarus prepares education agreements across the globe
MINSK (belta) -- Belarus education minister Igor Karpenko announced his government’s plan to sign agreements in the field of education with Serbia, Indonesia, Ecuador, Malaysia, India, Tajikistan, Singapore and Thailand. They facilitate mutual degree recognition and/or further the cooperation in science and youth policy ... read more 15.02.2017
New chapter for Erasmus+ Master Loans
BRUSSELS (ace) -- The Erasmus+ Master Loans Guarantee scheme that launched end of 2015, is expanding further. This time round the scheme not only sees two new banks singing up for the guarantee, but also a first higher education institution joins in, with the University of Luxembourg taking initiative in a pilot, to offer student support in form of deferred payments for studies and housing ... read more 28.02.2017