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Graduates from many of the little-known regional universities have a better chance of getting a job than those from top institutions in big cities, according to new data from the federal government that allows the job outcomes of universities to be compared for the first time, write Tim Dodd and Edmund Tadros for the Australian Financial Review.Top-performing institutions include the Northern Territory's Charles Darwin University and Armidale's University of New England, where 89% of graduates with business and management bachelor degrees have jobs within four months of graduation. In the competitive business and management discipline, these two are closely followed by the New South Wales regional Charles Sturt University, the University of Southern Queensland and Central Queensland University.

Several leading scientists have voiced their support for a campaign for the United Kingdom to stay in the European Union, warning that an exit would harm the country’s research base, writes Emma Stoye for Chemistry World.The ‘Scientists for EU’ advocacy group began as a campaign on social media which was set up by Mike Galsworthy, a research policy specialist and researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Rob Davidson, a data scientist for the online journal GigaScience. The pair set up the group the day after the Conservatives won the UK general election, confirming that a referendum on the country’s EU membership would go ahead.

Many Canadian universities are seeing a sharp increase in the number of professors hired to primarily teach rather than research. While that may be good news for students, the change could threaten the mission of universities, writes Simona Chiose for The Globe and Mail.More than 40 Canadian universities provided The Globe and Mail with data on their faculty ranks. In spite of differences among universities, what becomes clear is that teaching-focused positions have seen consistent and sharp increases at many of the country’s most prominent post-secondary institutions, and the model is growing at smaller universities as well.

After a boom in 2005-10, many private-owned universities and colleges in Vietnam are now struggling to survive losses caused by a critical shortage of students.A report in Tuoi Tre newspaper Thursday said around 10 of them have been sold in recent years in the southern region alone.The acquisition market is especially bustling in Ho Chi Minh City, which currently has 74 universities and colleges - the second highest number after Hanoi’s 114 – it said.Private-owned universities and colleges first reported difficulties in enrolling students in 2012, two years after Vietnam's higher education system saw a boom that led to the establishment of 124 schools in 2005-10.That year many private schools only managed to fill up 30-40 percent of their classes, Saigon Giai Phong newspaper recently reported.

Until a decade ago or so, Japanese was one of the most popular languages studied by elite students in North Korea, even though the two countries have never had good relations, diplomatic or otherwise.But today the situation is very different. At the only North Korean university where students can major in Japanese, classes of the language are sparsely attended, while mastering English or Chinese is increasingly viewed as the surest way to get a good job.When Kyodo News was granted rare access to Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies in September, officials disclosed that only about 40 students are currently specializing in Japanese at the institution.“In 2015, there were very few students wishing to study Japanese,” Kim Son Il, chief of the Japanese department, said. “In the next several years, it is really possible we might see four or five students in the course.”

Australia will not develop the innovative economy envisaged by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull unless it stops rewarding mediocrity and ditches a culture of "every child gets a prize", the nation's most prestigious universities argue.The Group of Eight universities – including the University of Sydney and University of Melbourne – is urging the federal government to fix the country's "broken" research funding system by targeting taxpayer funds at research judged to be of high quality.This includes a contentious push for $680 million in annual funding for PhD and master's research to be restricted to institutions rated at or above world standard in their chosen fields.