(7 April 2016) The British Library’s oldest Qur’ān manuscript, Or.2165, dating from the eighth century, has now been fully digitised and is available on the British Library’s Digitised Manuscripts site. Among the most ancient copies of the Qurʼān, it comprises 121 folios containing over two-thirds of the complete text and is one of the largest…
(6 April 2016, Ann Arbor, MI) Universities can now offer access to the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) renowned Inspec database via the award-winning ProQuest platform. Created by the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET), Inspec is one of the world’s most definitive sources of specialized scientific and technical literature, containing more than 16…
(7 April 2016) Beijing, China based architectural firm, Vector Architects completed this modern and minimalist design for the Seashore Library, which is located directly on the beach of Beidaihe, Qinhuangdao. The concept offers a library architecture characterized by an open plan with concrete-clad walls and rectangular shapes. Most of the walls offer a rough and structured surface. The interior…
(5 April 2016) Reporting to Section Head (User Experience and Outreach), the appointee will assist in developing an excellent user experience across all the Pao Yue-Kong Library’s eLearning support services and social media channels. The appointee’s duties include: a) collaborate with Library staff and various stakeholders in the University to create interactivecontent, instruction videos, storyboards…
U-Multirank On 4th April 2016 U-Multirank issued a press release announcing its third global university rankings. The release includes a summary of the results. In June 2015, Ruth’s Rankings 12 covered U-Multirank’s second global rankings and left the judgment of the usefulness of the tool up to you. The latest iteration has added about 100…
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…
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