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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Just over a week before Britain's referendum on European Union membership, Paul Whiteley, a professor in the University of Essex’s department of government, was scheduled to take part in a BBC Norwich debate alongside three other academics to fact-check statements made by politicians from both campaigns, to remain in the union and to leave. But one of the politicians set to appear, Douglas Carswell, the U.K. Independence Party representative for Clacton, refused to appear alongside them.
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Every researcher in the Netherlands is to be questioned about whether they have committed research misconduct or engaged in “sloppy science” as part of a major national effort to bolster scientific standards. In response to rising concerns over a “reproducibility crisis” in science and a series of high-profile fraud cases in the Netherlands, the country is to commit 8 million euros ($9 million) to understanding the problem, finding solutions and trying to reproduce critical studies.
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Research at universities in the Middle East and North Africa is “very often underreported” because academics see their work as private, says a senior academic administrator at a Moroccan university. Gina Cinali, director of the office of institutional research and effectiveness at Al Akhawayn University, believes that scholars in the region -- which is sometimes abbreviated MENA -- often do not share their research because they feel that they “do not owe it to the institution.” “They have a feeling that ‘this is my research,’” she said.
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The higher education White Paper has been published: so how has Jo Johnson dealt with five of the big concerns raised about his policy plans in recent months? Concern: That the metrics powering the teaching excellence framework (TEF) are fundamentally flawed, and they do not, in fact, measure teaching quality. Has it been resolved? The three core metrics are to remain the same: student satisfaction scores (National Student Survey), graduate outcome data (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education), and continuation rates.
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Surely few laboratories can match the views from Barcelona Biomedical Research Park on the city’s busy beachfront. From the sun-dappled balconies of the modernist €120 million ($138 million) institute, scientists can watch boats sail out from the Olympic Port, swimmers take a dip in the Mediterranean and tourists zip along the seafront promenade on motorized scooters.
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Universities that deliver transnational programs in countries with dubious human rights records have been warned that they are putting more than their reputations at risk. Gearoid O Cuinn and Sigrun Skogly of Lancaster University Law School, in Britain, argue that institutions and accreditation agencies could potentially face legal challenges in their home countries if they do not use the course certification process to try to uphold human rights overseas.
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Expansion of higher education systems around the world is likely to continue, according to a study that found a strong correlation between opening universities and significantly increased economic growth. An analysis of data on 14,870 higher education institutions in 78 countries over six decades, presented at the annual conference of the Royal Economic Society, reveals that doubling the number of universities in a region results in a 4.7 percent increase in gross domestic product per capita in that region within five years, on average.
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Since the turn of the millennium, South Korean universities have been trying to improve their research capabilities by attracting scholars from across the world to shake up a sometimes insular system. But a study has found that in at least one of the country’s top institutions, foreign faculty members are feeling disempowered and usually leave a few years after being recruited, raising questions about how successfully Korean universities and other Asian institutions are integrating their increasing numbers of international academics.
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Launching a successful transnational education offering in China is a holy grail for some Western university leaders -- and recent research may help map a path to this elusive prize.
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A number of English universities, including some in the Russell Group, have increased their recruitment of European Union students by more than 40 percent after the removal of controls on undergraduate places. The increases were part of a record 11 percent increase in E.U. numbers across the U.K. sector in 2015-16. Universities said the rise came after they chose to step up recruitment on the Continent and was aimed at increasing diversity in their intake. But funding for E.U.