As an admirer of Korean society I find this exciting. Korea is creating a campus for multiple universities at Inchon. The idea is to offer something like an industrial park with shared facilities to schools wishing to have a presence in South Korea. These schools will work with Korean Universiti[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Foreign’
January 27th, 2011 - 9:43 am § in Uncategorized
Can the US export free speech when it creates branch campuses in repressive societies?
CENSORSHIP: China’s Big Sis Offers a Bad Vision for US Campus
based on material from Secrecy News and the San José Mercury An unclassified report from the CIA, describes the Student Informant System [SIS], a campus spy network established by China’s totalitarian government following Tiananmen Square in 1989. ‘ The report says that “the prin[...]
January 23rd, 2011 - 9:18 am § in China
Photocopying censored at Chinese University
from Macleans Police ask students and faculty to report subversive materials Chinese police have ordered students and faculty at Peking University to stop photocopying materials critical of the government. The order posted to the wall by local Yanyuan Police in 29 copy rooms read, “Materials that [...]
January 23rd, 2011 - 8:20 am § in Schools & Colleges
Grayling is experimenting with an American-style modal to find a solution to the higher education debate.
The nineteenth century historian Jacob Burkhardt said that the Renaissance of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries comprised a ‘discovery of the world and of man’. This discovery of ‘man’ primarily meant investigating the ‘cult of the individual’, in which the human condition was[...]
January 6th, 2011 - 1:17 pm § in Uncategorized
Faculty Chaos, UK Style.
The battle for control of Britain’s faculty union, the University and College Union, is under way, as a powerful leftist group plans a leadership challenge following a split over support for student protests. The turmoil within the organization, which represents about 120,000 higher education [...]