A wrap of news from around the globe this week.<\/p>\n
MP calls for cameras at university examination venues (Egypt)<\/strong><\/p>\n Magda Nasr, a member of the committee on education and scientific research of the House of Representatives, called for the installation of cameras in all examination halls at Egyptian universities to prevent cheating and lack of discipline.<\/p>\n This move is part of Egypt\u2019s efforts to enhance the quality of the country\u2019s university education and to deter churning out low quality graduates. The country\u2019s examination system has been plagued by cheating over recent years, particularly in high schools. –\u00a0 Full report on the Egypt Today site\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Students’ union to investigate campus sexual harassment (UK)<\/strong><\/p>\n Sexual harassment in universities is to be investigated by the National Union of Students, which is conducting the United Kingdom\u2019s first survey of staff sexual misconduct in higher education.\u00a0Students will be asked whether they have experienced or witnessed sexual misconduct by staff and about their experience of reporting this behaviour to their institution.\u00a0The National Union of Students said this was particularly important given recent findings that one-third of the UK\u2019s universities did not have a policy on staff-student relationships.\u00a0 –\u00a0Full report on The Guardian site\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Universities to introduce course to counter extremism (Pakistan)<\/strong><\/p>\n Alarmed by the rising trend of extremism among students, Pakistan\u2019s top universities gathered in Islamabad to discuss their role in countering the threat of radicalisation and instilling peaceful ideology.\u00a0As many as 80 university vice-chancellors attended the conference on \u201cthe role of universities in advancing national narrative to counter violence, extremism and terrorism\u201d last Monday, organised by the Islamic Research Institute of International Islamic University, in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.<\/p>\n The participants said sectarian hatred and imposing one\u2019s ideology was against the constitution of Pakistan. The vice-chancellors and ministers agreed that non-Muslims must be provided full protection and higher education institutions must discourage discriminatory attitudes. – Full report on the Gulf News site<\/a><\/p>\n US Justice Department threatens to sue Harvard University<\/strong><\/p>\n The United States Justice Department has threatened to sue Harvard University to force it to turn over documents as it investigates whether the Ivy League university\u2019s admission policies violate civil rights laws.\u00a0The department is probing the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based university\u2019s compliance with Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, according to the letter seen by Reuters. The measure prohibits institutions that receive federal funding from discriminating based on race, colour or national origin. – Full report on the Time site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A wrap of news from around the globe this week. MP calls for cameras at university examination venues (Egypt) Magda Nasr, a member of the committee on education and scientific research of the House of Representatives, called for the installation of cameras in all examination halls at Egyptian universities to prevent cheating and lack of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":4711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[30,246,59,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}