By Aytül Kasapoğlu, Ankara University The University of Ankara was established in 1946 and comprises faculties of Law, Letters, Science, Medicine, Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine, Divinity, Political Sciences, Pharmacy, Dental Medicine, Educational Sciences, Communication, Health Education and Engineering. Located in the…
By Gevorg Poghosyan, Armenian Sociological Association In Armenia sociology is developing in academic institutions, state and private universities, think-tanks and NGOs. The Yerevan State University (YSU) was founded in 1919. Today YSU has 22 Faculties of History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Law,…
Affirmative action programs in higher education have been around for decades in the US, and have spread around the globe. In some parts of the world, universities have additionally implemented quota systems in an attempt to diversify the student body….
Derya Ozkul – Alumna of Bogazici University Note: To understand the situation of Turkish universities in crisis, one would need to write about the overarching neoliberal policies and all the attempts at policing the resistance against them. Yet this would…
Earlier last month and again more recently, news outlets reported that the Obama Administration promised to wind down the war in Afghanistan, by removing tens of thousands of US troops by summer 2012 and placing Afghan security forces into lead…
By Yoshimichi Sato, Tohoku University The new cabinet in Japan is planning to substantively reduce the budget of the Global Centers of Excellence (COE) Program. The purpose of the program is to foster excellent research/education centers in Japan so that…
El movimiento estudiantil chileno ha sido todo un hito dentro de la movilización social de la post-dictadura y ha logrado sumar a mayorías estudiantiles a un proceso de cuestionamiento de algunas de las bases estructurales del sistema educacional vigente. Si…
By Ruy Braga, University of São Paulo On June 9th 2009 the military attacked the building of the Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (USP) with gas bombs, concussion grenades and rubber bullets….
Lucy Mayblin, University of Warwick Note: The UK Parliament will vote on 9th December to pass enabling legislation to allow a rise in student fees in England. This will then be followed by a White Paper making specific recommendations, which…
Rudolf Richter, University of Vienna Yes, universities in Austria are in a crisis. The crisis is first a financial one and mainly due to investment in the banking system rather than higher education. Second, they are in a crisis because…
