By Ruth A. Pagell* (6 April 2016) This article focuses on university education in Australia and New Zealand. We look at the roles of governments in evaluations, national ratings and rankings, and the international rankings. Australia and New Zealand have layers of government organizations evaluating quality through metrics and peer review. The focus of both…
(5 April 2016) Bangladesh has made impressive progress over the past 15 years in improving the reach of its education system, enrolling more than 97% in primary school by 2015 – an increase of almost 40% since 1990. The new challenge is ensuring that those in school are learning the necessary skills; however, crowded schools are…
(2 April 2016) Overdrive has just published a new survey that takes a look at digital penetration in schools in the United States. They take a look at what medium is the most popular and what type of tech devices diligent young scholars are employing to get the most out of their education, says Michael…
(1 April 2016) To boost their research productivities, Chinese universities are putting great pressure on their research-active staff to publish in internationally indexed journals. However, the emerging publish-or-perish culture in China has seen little empirical investigation thus far. In the research reported in this article, semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven young researchers in science…
(1 April 2016) EIFL has announced that its new EIFL Public Library Innovation Award – for public library services that improve lives – is now open for applications. The award is open to all public and community libraries in developing and transition countries that use information and communication technology (ICT) to improve the lives of…
(31 March 2016) As of March 31, 2016, Mr. Noritada Otaki, the Librarian of the National Diet Library, retired and as of April 1, 2016, Dr. Sawako Hanyu is the newly appointed Librarian of the National Diet Library. Dr. Hanyu served as Professor of Ochanomizu University from 1996, vice-president and Director of the University Library…
(31 March 2016, Mountain View, CA) ProQuest is supporting libraries specializing in Asian Studies or interested in building their Chinese-language collection with carefully selected scholarly titles from renowned Chinese publishers and university presses – all available for perpetual access. Until now, acquiring a comprehensive, high quality collection of Chinese-language titles has been time-consuming and difficult…
(30 March 2016) “Today, with the unprecedented access to diverse research materials online, we are witnessing encouraging progress in the academic efforts of Myanmar researchers and students,” says Professor Dr Thida Win, Rector of the University of Mandalay. The University of Mandalay has taken ownership and control of their research publications, is designing an open…
(1 April 2016) On March 4, 2016, the National Institute of Informatics (NII) hosted a meeting of the Asian open access (OA) community in Tokyo, Japan. The meeting was co-organized by COAR and held in conjunction with the Research Data Alliance Plenary meeting. The aim of the meeting was to introduce members of the Asian…
(31 March 2016) Researchers can explore the Silk Road the 21st-century way—via the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, which lists hundreds of thousands of places significant in art and cultural history The loose group of ancient trade routes known today as the Silk Road ran from eastern China to the Mediterranean and greatly affected everything…
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