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During a two-day Caribbean conference on higher education policy-makers, educators and experts discussed the situation of higher education in the region. The meeting was a joint initiative between the Surinam government, the Organization of American States and Unesco, reports the Office of the Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis.

Priority should be given to the establishment of private universities that have intensive investment or operate on a non-profit basis, while poor-quality ones should be shut down, an education supervisory team has said, reports the Communist Party paper the Saigon Giai Phong Daily. The National Assembly standing committee's supervisory team made the statement at a meeting on 9 April in Hanoi to hear feedback on its report on quality in Vietnam's higher education sector. The team's investigation showed that many private universities failed to meet requirements in terms of instructors and teaching facilities.

Recent news of fee hikes in Singapore's three public universities is unlikely to deter foreign students because the new fees remain internationally competitive, write Karen Zainal and Luke Vijay for the Straits Times.

Bilateral ties between Malaysia and the EU are set to improve with the launch of the RM2.5 million (US$0.8 million) Malaysia-European Union Link (MYEULINK) initiative, writes Richard Lim for The Star. Funded by the EU with support from the Higher Education Ministry, the three-year project encourages cooperation and dialogue in higher education, while keeping decision-makers in Malaysia informed on a range of EU policy initiatives. Khaled Nordin said the effort showed the EU's willingness to foster closer ties with Malaysia. "MYEULINK may only last for three years but its benefit will go well beyond this time frame," he said in a press conference.

Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University and China's Tsinghua University are planning to establish joint laboratories on both campuses to enhance cooperation between them, an NTHU official said last week, reports Focus Taiwan. The laboratories will be funded by both sides, with NTHU contributing NT$20 million (US$628,000) and Tsinghua four million yuan (US$586,000) annually.

China will revamp its higher education system to ease the grip of red tape, granting colleges more autonomy, education authorities said last week. But, Xin Dingding reports for The China Daily, university leaders are worried that once they are stripped of their administrative titles they could face new problems. The new draft guidelines for education reform, which are out for public comment, plan to "modernise" the higher education system.

New admissions regulations for Swedish universities set to be introduced in the autumn are likely to mean fewer places available for foreign students and could be in breach of EU law, according to the National Agency for Higher Education. "There is a high probability that fewer places will be on offer to foreign students," Alexandra Sjöstrand, an investigator at the agency, told The Local on Friday. In practice the changes mean that there will be four new sub-groups within the group of applicants admitted on their high-school grades: Swedish grades, Swedish grades supplemented with further study, foreign grades, and (Swedish) Folk High School grades. Previously, all the various non-Swedish standard grade systems were translated into an equivalent Swedish grade for consideration. Students, both Swedish and non-Swedish, will still be able to apply through the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (Högskoleprovet) or through the alternative application category, which has been increased to 30 percent of places under the new regulations.

Nano Research, an English-language journal jointly published by Springer and Tsinghua University Press, is now listed in the Thomson Reuters' Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E), reports PhysOrg. The journal, founded in July 2008, is part of Springer's Chinese Library of Science, a collection comprising more than 90 journals. Its open access publishing model allows readers to download full articles for free via the online platform SpringerLink.