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Daily Express is campaigning for a reduction in tuition fees; rent rebates for students unable to live in university accommodation; and greater use of hardship funds.
Campaigners said the sky-high salaries for university chiefs are a slap in the face for students already struggling to make ends meet with inadequate maintenance loans and all-time high tuition fees .
Third-year student Anastasia Christodoulou, 20, said: Students are being viewed as nothing but moneybags for universities, and it is unfair that they are the ones who have to feel the repercussions. I think it s such an unjustifiable amount of money. I m pretty sure the UEA vice-chancellor earns £271,000, which is nearly twice the salary of the Prime Minister. It s especially ridiculous that UEA has both staff and students that are struggling financially, and a student s union that has also been struggling.
What is the role of universities in global upskilling?
Wide-scale investment in upskilling has the potential to boost global gross domestic product (GDP) by US$6.5 trillion by 2030 and lead to the creation of 5.3 million net new jobs globally by 2030, according to a new report published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on 21 January.
Upskilling for Shared Prosperity, prepared in collaboration with PwC, is a call to action. It makes the economic case for providing employees with learning and development opportunities to expand their horizons while minimising skills gaps and makes sweeping generalisations while presenting country- and region-specific information that indicates that there are great differences between these.
Brexit Could Cost the U.K. Top Talent. An Education Leader On What Universities Should Do Now
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Professor Sir Ed Byrne, an educator and a neurologist, is one of the few people who can say, it s not brain surgery and really know what that means. He was knighted for his services to academia in 2020, after already being given the Companion of the Order of Australia, the country s highest honor, in 2014. He has spent the last six and a half years as president and principal of King s College London, where the Vision 2029 set out what a modern university could and should look like.
Science output up, but data-driven investment needed
African scientists’ share of the world’s publications has been increasing and more of the research published by scientists from the continent is being cited, but more regular, reliable and comprehensive data on research universities in Africa is needed to ensure that imminent decisions related to investing in the continent’s universities are well-directed.
Knowledge collaboration between high-income countries and countries in Africa has been dominated traditionally by primary education. Collaboration in the areas of higher education and research was seen as a ‘luxury activity’ and has, in essence, been limited to educational and administrative capacity-building and short-term applied research and consultancy projects, as well as scholarships for African students to study at universities in the North.
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UK-EU research deal at a glance
Britain will take part in Horizon Europe – but how will it work? A look at the fine print
The post-Brexit agreement between the EU and the UK has set off a scramble to work out what it means for individuals, businesses, research labs and universities.
The treaty, 1,246 pages long, says that the UK can continue to pay into and participate in five EU funding programmes – including the big Horizon Europe research scheme, a seven-year, €95.5 billion plan to succeed the current programme, Horizon 2020.
The UK has a strong track record in EU research competitions. From 2007-2013, the country participated in over 10,000 projects with over 18,000 participants. In total, the UK secured around €7 billion in funding (15% of total awarded funding) over that period – the second greatest share of participations and of EU funding, behind Germany in both cases. Overall, the UK has secured around €5.9 billion in funding from