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28 avril 2013

Conservatism, red tape thwart international education

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Suvendrini Kakuchi. It is bitterly ironic – Japan has the third largest economy in the world and is a leading exporter, but fails badly when it comes to international education.
“Japanese university education needs to be urgently vitalised to survive against stiff global competition,” said Dr Akito Okada, who teaches comparative and international education at the prestigious Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Universities “have stayed too long relatively unbothered by the global currents of education services seekers, due to the language barrier and traditional internal orientation of higher learning”. Read more...
28 avril 2013

Agreement on controversial student loan scheme reform

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Jan Petter Myklebust. The major political parties in Denmark have signed a 10-point reform agreement aimed at strengthening the economy, job creation and competitiveness. When the reform is fully operational in 2020, student grants and loans spending will be reduced by DK2.2 billion (US$383 million). Students are angry, but rectors support the move. Public money saved on the student grants and loans system, called the SU, will be invested in other areas of higher education. The agreement (in Danish) is called “On the Reform of the SU-System and the Student Completion Framework”. Read more...
28 avril 2013

Improved rankings boost university income

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Arnaud Chevalier and Xiaoxuan Jia. League tables ranking higher education institutions are popular, and over the past decade they have gained prominence, as shown by an increase in the number of league tables providers, nationally and internationally. League tables attempt to summarise the ‘quality’ of an institution or subject into a simple metric in order to help prospective students make informed choices about their educational investment. But what is the real influence of these league tables on the decisions of applicants? Read more...
28 avril 2013

University autonomy prompts concern over student fees

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Suluck Lamubol. Thailand’s government is continuing to allow universities more autonomy, claiming that this will deliver administrative flexibility and freedom from state bureaucracy. But it faces opposition from students and academics concerned about fees and lack of accountability. Last month the Thai parliament approved the first readings of three bills that make the three main universities in Bangkok – Thammasat, Kasetsart and Suan Dusit Rajabhat – autonomous bodies, granting executive and administrative power to their councils instead of the universities being subject to the Ministry of Education, as they currently are.
The bills mean that the universities will no longer be guaranteed state funding subsidies per student, as financial responsibility will fall on the universities, but they will receive an annual block grant from the state budget. Among Thailand’s 172 universities, there are 15 universities that are already autonomous and 65 state universities. The rest are private institutions, community colleges or institutes. Read more...
28 avril 2013

Survey shows failure to reach R&D target of 1% of GDP

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Nicola Jenvey. South Africa needs to escalate its expenditure on research and development and increase its international competitiveness in science and innovation, according to Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom. Disappointingly, the lofty goal of raising R&D spending to 1% of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2010 has not been achieved.
Rather, the National Survey of Research and Experimental Development 2009-2010, released earlier this month, showed that South Africa had invested some R21 billion (US$2.3 billion) in R&D over the period, translating into only 0.87% of GDP in 2009-10. Read more...
28 avril 2013

Education reforms, including to degrees, reap rewards

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Katherine Forestier. Hong Kong’s new academic structure, now phased in across senior secondary and higher education, has resulted in marked achievements in extending education opportunities and demand for higher education, along with early indicators that it is better preparing students for further studies, a review report has revealed.
The city has taken the major step in moving from a three-year to a four-year undergraduate system. In September 2012, the first students under the new system enrolled in new, four-year programmes, alongside the last students embarking on three-year courses under the old model. The Progress Report on the New Academic Structure Review: The New Senior Secondary learning journey – Moving forward to excel, published on 19 April, shows that the changes at university level are part of fundamental reforms, systematically implemented since 2000 and affecting all levels of education in Hong Kong. Read more...
28 avril 2013

Foreign universities take education to refugee camps

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Maina Waruru.Thousands of education-hungry refugees living in camps in northern Kenya are set to benefit from higher education in a groundbreaking initiative involving a non-profit organisation and a host of local and foreign universities.
Through the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees, or BHER, initiative at York University in Canada and Windle Trust Kenya, refugees will be moved from frittering away their days around camp and in video halls, into virtual classes where they will acquire knowledge for a better life. Read more...
28 avril 2013

Know your international student – Global or glocal?

http://www.universityworldnews.com/images/photos/photo_2035.gifBy Rahul Choudaha. The number of globally mobile international students has been consistently increasing for decades. At the same time, the number of ‘glocal’ students engaged in transnational education – students staying in their home country (region) while gaining a foreign education – has also been increasing.
How are ‘global’ students different from ‘glocal’ students, and how is their mobility likely to take shape in future?
To answer the above question, I am adapting and extending the results of a previous research study published by World Education Services. Read more...
28 avril 2013

First British branch campus in West Africa announced

http://www.universityworldnews.com/images/photos/photo_2035.gifByWagdy Sawahel. The UK-based Lancaster University is to open a branch campus in Ghana this year – believed to be the first British branch campus in West Africa and the second in Africa.
Lancaster University Ghana is a collaboration between Lancaster University and the Ghana-based company Trans National Education (TNE) Limited, and was announced on 14 April. The campus will be in East Legon in the capital Accra.
Geraint Johnes, a professor of economics and dean of graduate studies at Lancaster, told University World News that the university regarded Ghana as “a hugely important investment. Read more...
28 avril 2013

Disparition de Vincent MERLE, grande figure de la formation professionnelle

http://formation-adultes.cnam.fr/medias/photo/img_1252421840964.jpgVincent MERLE, expert de la formation professionnelle, président de l'Association nationale des Carif-Oref, est décédé subitement mardi 23 avril 2013 à l'age de 63 ans.
Professeur au Conservatoire national des métiers (Cnam), Vincent MERLE était aussi président d’Aquitaine-Cap-Métiers (Carif Aquitaine) et depuis décembre 2011, président de l’Association nationale des Carif Oref. Il venait d'être nommé co-président du conseil scientifique de l'Association nationale pour la formation professionnelle des adultes (Afpa), en janvier 2013. Ancien directeur de cabinet de la secrétaire d’Etat à la Formation professionnelle Nicole PERY (gouvernement de Lionel JOSPIN), il a contribué à la création de la validation des acquis de l’expérience (VAE) mise en place en 2002. Dans un communiqué, Michel SAPIN lui rend hommage.
Logo de l'Agence Régionale de la Formation tout au long de la vie (ARFTLV Poitou-charentes)Décès de Vincent Merle
Nous avons appris le décès de Vincent Merle des suites d’un malaise cardiaque. Professeur du CNAM, il était Président d'Aquitaine Cap Métiers (Carif de la région Aquitaine) et Président de la nouvelle association du Réseau des Carif-Oref.
Expert de la formation professionnelle, il a enseigné sur les thématiques de la gestion par les compétences dans les entreprises, la construction des parcours de progression professionnelle, la certification et la VAE.
Il a consacré de nombreuses années à des travaux d’études sur l’emploi et la formation au sein de différents organismes tels que l’ANPE, le Commissariat général au Plan ou le CEREQ. Il a été, de 1998 à 2002, le directeur de Cabinet de Nicole Péry, secrétaire d’Etat aux droits des femmes et à la formation professionnelle où il avait contribué à la création de la VAE.
Dans un communiqué Michel Sapin salue "son expérience, sa clairvoyance, et son esprit d’innovation qui nous manqueront pour construire la réforme à venir" de la formation professionnelle.
Voir aussi sur le blog Une disparition brutale… Vincent MERLE, Disparition de Vincent Merle.

http://formation-adultes.cnam.fr/medias/photo/img_1252421840964.jpgVincent MERLE, oiliúint saineolaí, uachtarán ar an Cumann Náisiúnta na Carif-OREF , a fuair bás go tobann DÉ MÁIRT, 23 Aibreán, 2013 ag aois 63 bliain.
An tOllamh ag Ardscoil Náisiúnta na ceirdeanna (CNAM), bhí Vincent MERLE freisin uachtarán 's Aquitaine Cape Ceirdeanna (Carif Aquitaine) agus i mí na Nollag 2011, Uachtarán Chumann Náisiúnta na Carif OREFNíos mó...
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