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Ontario to bar international medical students

The PIE News

“Starting from the fall of 2026, all Ontario medical schools will be required to allocate at least 95% of all undergraduate seats to residents of Ontario, with the other 5% reserved for students from the rest of Canada,” said Ford in a press briefing on October 25.

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Funding university research “key in building innovation” in India

The PIE News

The calls for more allocation has now led to Indias finance ministry allocating INR 20,000 crore (1.8bn) to the Department of Science and Technology to initiate a private sector-driven R&D development fund. Eighty-five percent of medical equipment used in India is imported. Indias Index of Industrial Production grew by 3.2%

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State Support for Higher Ed Is Up

Inside Higher Ed

percent was allocated to financial aid, and 11.4 percent went to research, hospital expansion and medical schools. For the past two years, SHEEO has also tracked data on the federal stimulus money that states allocated to higher education. In fiscal 2023, states allocated $1.2 percent), Mississippi (26.6

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Deep Internationalization & Infrastructure

GlobalHigherEd

Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore (a National University of Singapore/Duke University joint venture). Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore (a Nanyang Technological University/Imperial College London joint venture). Global Innovation Exchange in Seattle (a University of Washington/Tsinghua University joint venture).

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The Research Excellence Framework: UK Higher Education’s great export

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Hugh McKenna CBE, Dean of Medical School Development at Ulster University; and Roger Watson , Honourary Professor of Nursing at the University of Hull. As in Australia, the Swedish Government changed, and the results of the ALF exercise were not used to allocate funding and the ALF was shelved.

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The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Changing Higher Education

These data include medical schools, which contribute about $23B to the Total Research column in 2014. Medical schools are organized and financed very differently from the rest of the university; conclusions drawn from these overall numbers should therefore be understood with that caveat. TOTAL RESEARCH. 4 year % change.

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State support for higher ed up for second year in a row

Inside Higher Ed

” For the past two years, SHEEO has also tracked data on the COVID-19 federal stimulus funds that states allocated to higher education. percent to research, hospital expansion and medical schools, according to the SHEEO report. “I would say it’s more positive than we’ve seen in the last two decades.”