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		<title>Greece: Universities Face Grave Financial Threat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Makki Marseilles, University World News Universities and higher education institutions in Greece that have not held elections for the composition of their new management councils are in grave and imminent danger of losing state financial support. A severe ultimatum was issued by the Education Ministry to all universities and technology institutes that have not yet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2012/02/03/greece-universities-face-grave-financial-threat/</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;ll Always Be Here For You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jon Marcus, Times Higher Education There is no shortage of entrepreneurs in southern California. But in a slumping economy, there is a lot of competition for the venture capital that fuels them. So the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, usually deserted on a weekend, overflowed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2012/01/29/well-always-be-here-for-you/</link>
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		<title>Dissing the Dissertation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed SEATTLE &#8212; The average humanities doctoral student takes nine years to earn a Ph.D. That fact was cited frequently here (and not with pride) at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association. Richard E. Miller, an English professor at Rutgers University&#8217;s main campus in New Brunswick, said that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2012/01/25/dissing-the-dissertation/</link>
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		<title>Global: International Students Choices Changing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah King Head, University World News Not only are more students than ever before travelling abroad to realise their higher education ambitions, they are also increasingly gravitating away from traditional educational hotspots in order to do so &#8211; and this trend looks set to continue, with competition for international students growing worldwide. Over the course [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2012/01/21/global-international-students-choices-changing/</link>
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		<title>M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Marshall Crotty, Forbes Magazine For Wall Street Occupiers or other decriers of the “social injustice” of college tuition, here’s a curveball bound to scramble your worldview: a totally free college education regardless of your academic performance or background.  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2012/01/17/m-i-t-game-changer-free-online-education-for-all/</link>
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		<title>New University Ranking Aims for Objectivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By David Jobbins, University World News A new university ranking seeks to use a sophisticated set of bibliometric indicators to rate scientific performance to establish the world&#8217;s top 500 research universities. The Leiden Ranking 2011/2012 aims to provide highly accurate measurements of the scientific impact of universities and of universities&#8217; involvement in scientific collaboration. Of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2012/01/08/new-university-ranking-aims-for-objectivity/</link>
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		<title>Journal Axes Gene Research on Jews and Palestinians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robin McKie, The Observer A keynote research paper showing that Middle Eastern Jews and Palestinians are genetically almost identical has been pulled from a leading journal. Academics who have already received copies of Human Immunology have been urged to rip out the offending pages and throw them away. Such a drastic act of self-censorship [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2012/01/04/journal-axes-gene-research-on-jews-and-palestinians/</link>
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		<title>Announcing the Winner of the 2011 Award for Best Practice in Higher Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are very pleased to announce that the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Integrative Arts (CAiiA) &#8211; Planetary Collegium is the 2011 recipient of the World Universities Forum Award for Best Practice in Higher Education. Each year, the Award recognizes some of the most significant higher education practices, including curricula and research. Founded and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2011/12/31/announcing-the-winner-of-the-2011-award-for-best-practice-in-higher-education/</link>
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		<title>Face Value</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sarah Cunnane, Times Higher Education University chancellors are a mixed bag of rock stars and actors, politicians and entrepreneurs, but are they mere glad-handing figureheads or can they make a genuine difference to the institution over which they preside? Sarah Cunnane finds out. To some, they are just &#8220;an archaism&#8221; and &#8220;powerless figureheads&#8221; without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2011/12/30/face-value/</link>
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		<title>MBA Diary: No Research Required</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Pollen, The Economist Should it matter to students whether a business school has a strong research base? Andrew Pollen, a first-year MBA student at ESADE in Barcelona, thinks not A COUPLE of weeks ago, my economics professor introduced a new case study for us to mull over. It was dense and packed with historical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2011/12/26/mba-diary-no-research-required/</link>
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		<title>Finalists for the International Award for Excellence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to all of the Award finalists: Laura Dahlstrom, Stephanie Miller and June LeDrew -  Influential Factors in University Collective Bargaining Leadership: One Woman’s Lived Experience as Chief Negotiator Nicolas Gachon - The Origins of the Higher Education Market: From Theories of Capitalism to an Extrapolation of Clark’s Triangle Khe Foon Hew and Wing Sum Cheung -  The Use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2011/12/22/finalists-for-the-international-award-for-excellence-3/</link>
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		<title>EU Plans Historic Rise in Research Funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter da Costa, University World News The European Commission has proposed an historic adjustment to its research and innovation policies with a view to stimulating economic growth and shoring up the competitiveness of the European Union. The plans include a EUR30 billion (US$40 billion) increase in funding and a 16-fold rise in the number of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2011/12/19/eu-plans-historic-rise-in-research-funding/</link>
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		<title>Announcing the winner of the International Award for Excellence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Rui Gonçalves, Ana Vitória Baptista, Catarina Lobão and António Melo the winners of the International Award for Excellence in the world universities field with their paper Evidence-Based Practice in Higher Education: Discussing its Value to Enhance Teaching and Learning. Abstract: Nowadays, we observe that Academia is focusing a great importance on research in general and evidence-based practice (EBP) in particular. In fact, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2011/12/19/announcing-the-winner-of-the-international-award-for-excellence-3/</link>
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		<title>Stanley Fish on Teaching Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times Opinionator blog: This week marks the last sessions of my Yale law school class on law, liberalism and religion. In the course of the semester my students have learned how to read religion clause cases against the background of long-standing debates in philosophy and theology about the relationship between religious imperatives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2011/12/17/stanley-fish-on-teaching-law/</link>
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		<title>Chinese Drive 5% International Student Growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alison Moodie, University World News International student enrolment at American colleges and universities has been growing steadily for the past five years, reaching a record high of 723,277 in 2010, according to a new report by the Institute of International Education. The annual Open Doors study found that the majority of international students came from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2011/12/15/chinese-drive-5-international-student-growth/</link>
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		<title>Journal of the World Universities Forum, Volume 4, Issue 3 now available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The third issue of Volume 4 of the Journal of the World Universities Forum has now been published. Volume 4, Issue 3 contains: The Use of Peer Facilitation in University Asynchronous Online Discussion Environment by Khe Foon Hew and Wing Sum Cheung Evidence-Based Practice in Higher Education: Discussing its Value to Enhance Teaching and Learning by Rui Gonçalves, Ana [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2011/12/14/journal-of-the-world-universities-forum-volume-4-issue-3-now-available/</link>
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		<title>Our Universities: Why Are They Failing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Anthony Grafton, New York Review of Books American universities crowd the tops of many world rankings, and though these ratings are basically entertainment for university administrators and alumni, they do reflect certain facts. A number of American universities offer their faculty salaries and working conditions, laboratories and libraries that few institutions elsewhere can match. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2011/12/11/our-universities-why-are-they-failing/</link>
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		<title>France Looks to the Big League</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By M.S., The Economist PLANS to create a French Ivy League are part of the biggest shake-up in French higher education since students threw cobbled stones in les évènements of 1968. Championed by President Nicolas Sarkozy, the idea is to spend €7.7 billion ($10.6 billion) to produce a handful of world-class universities which can compete [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2011/12/07/france-looks-to-the-big-league/</link>
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		<title>Economical with the actualité</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Fred Inglis, Times Higher Education Only the incomparable house journalist of The Poppletonian can capture the farcical combination of phoney science, flat obduracy and lethal money-grubbing that now passes for the language of academic policy. Even Laurie Taylor&#8217;s satire is, however, impotent before the facts of political life. For David Willetts, the universities and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2011/12/03/economical-with-the-actualite/</link>
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		<title>New Scoreboard for Research and Innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Geoff Maslen, University World News Although research efforts by universities and private organisations are increasing across the globe, most research remains highly concentrated in a small number of US universities, according to a just-published OECD study that uses a new measure of research impact. Across disciplines, however, &#8220;a more diverse picture emerges&#8221;. The report, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheuniversity.com/2011/11/29/new-scoreboard-for-research-and-innovation/</link>
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