Understanding innovation is key to the advancement of higher education in Puerto Rico
By Dr Jorge Haddock Acevedo • President, University of Puerto Rico
“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think...
Searching and Serving the Best
Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) has a long-term vision (2018-2045) to become a techno-socio-entrepreneurial university. This vision has been developed in response to a need...
Blueprint for learning in an age of disruption
Malaysian universities are going from strength to strength, but Dr Siti Hamisah Tapsir, Director General of the country’s Ministry of Higher Education, is working...
Universities must lead Middle East transformation
Amin El Sharkawi, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Bahrain, calls for change in higher education and appeals to universities to help meet development...
China’s Unceasing Quest For World-Class Jurisprudence
“... should follow the direction of open, innovative, quality and harmonious development, with Chinese characteristics, while honouring the mission to ‘connect legal societies around...
Universities playing their part in achieving a Just and Civilised Indonesia
Professor Dr Mohammad Nasih, Rector of Universitas Airlangga, looks at the challenges Indonesia is facing and some university responses.
“... innovative research is expected to...
Enriching the student experience – exploring the global position of Taiwan’s ‘politics’ university
History has allowed National Chengchi University to become Taiwan’s capital institution for politics, business and other areas of the Social Sciences. Martin Ince finds...
Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates
Professor Waqar Ahmad • Chancellor, Abu Dhabi University
Dr Heather Friesen • Executive Director of Planning & Strategy, Abu Dhabi University
The fast pace of development...
Academic joint venture sets the pace for Chinese higher education
Much more than a branch campus, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University is a unique and cooperative creation of universities and industry, bringing new approaches to learning,...
Preparing Driven, Disciplined And Highly Ethical, Specialist Researchers
The history of the Mongolian National University of Science (MUST) began in 1959 when the Mongolian National Republic started training its own industrial engineer-economists....
