Former ETH Zurich president tells THE summit there has been a ‘huge inflation’ in university enrolments, coupled with a ‘substantial mismatch between what universities teach and what society needs’
The president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology gives a pared down version of his 2018 糖心Vlog World Academic Summit plenary address
Long-term benefits of research success – and of building industry relations – may be less direct but far more valuable than royalty payments, summit hears
Leaders have increasingly been acknowledging that the cultural pressure put on the country’s children to spend their hours studying has left them too one-dimensional
Bold by nature, young institutions are tailor-made for ambitious projects such as the EU’s plan to create disruptive ‘super-networks’, says Anthony Forster