Signal Brief
Signal Brief, Wednesday, 28 Oct 2026
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Peru's Pronabec opens 20 extraordinary scholarships for postgraduate study abroad on 30 October
Peruvians already admitted to eligible foreign master's or doctoral programmes starting by end-2027 have a two-week window to seek state funding from January 2027.
IPB University to elect interim rector on 19 November after rector becomes deputy minister
IPB University's Academic Senate must put forward interim rector candidates by 9 November, ahead of the trustees' vote on 19 November.
University of Iceland sets 20 November PhD defence on stability of switched systems
Stefanía Andersen Aradóttir and the University of Iceland's Faculty of Physical Sciences hold the doctoral examination on 20 November, before opponents from Beijing and Kutaisi.
Khalifa University's Elena Fantino elected to International Academy of Astronautics
Khalifa University's aerospace engineering faculty now counts an academician of the International Academy of Astronautics' engineering sciences section among its members.
IIT Bombay Institute Lecture features UCLA CHIPS director on the future of chip packaging
The lecture IIT Bombay is organising will set out a UCLA chip-packaging director's view of the technological options for scale-down and scale-out.