Monthly Archives: September, 2018

Secret Teacher: subjects like art are being sidelined – but they matter

According to the primary national curriculum in the United States, students should be taught to become “proficient in drawing”. However, most of them are...

Universitas Airlangga Teaching Hospital Wins at Asian Hospital Management Awards 2018

Universitas Airlangga Teaching Hospital (RS UNAIR) has won some awards in Asian Hospital Management Awards (AHMA) 2018. It is a prestigious ceremony which recognises...

HKBU study: Antibiotics in landfills pose public health risk

The large quantities of discarded antibiotics in Hong Kong’s landfills pose a pollution problem and a potential hazard to public health and ocean life,...

Growth and innovation policies for a knowledge economy: experiences from Finland, Sweden and Singapore

In recent times, economists have begun to single out technical progress or more generally, knowledge creation, as the key factor for economic growth. The...

OUT NOW! QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2019

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been crowned the best university in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2019, pushing Stanford University into joint second...

Asian universities on the rise in the latest QS employability ranking

19 Asian universities made it into the top 100 in the latest QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2019. China’s Tsinghua University came 9th, Peking University...

Universitas Airlangga Students Win in APPS 2018 in Japan

Universitas Airlangga (UNAIR) always encourages its academics to showcase their scientific works abroad. On Friday, August 17, three UNAIR students from Faculty of Pharmacy...

Higher Education in the Middle East: Opportunities and Challenges for U.S. Universities and Middle East Partners

The development and advancement of a system of higher education across the Middle East has been widely acknowledged by Arab elites. The western education...

Traditional/alternative medicines and the right to health: Key elements for a convention on global health

The importance of non-conventional medicines (NCMs) has yet to be fully explored nor promoted in the recognition of the right to health, yet people...

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