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15 septembre 2013

Higher education is headed for a shakeout, analysts warn

By Jon Marcus. Facing skeptical customers, declining enrollment, an antiquated financial model that is hemorrhaging money, and new kinds of low-cost competition, some U.S. universities and colleges may be going the way of the music and journalism industries.
Their predicament has become so bad that financial analysts, regulators and bond-rating agencies are beginning to warn that many colleges and universities could close. Read more...

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15 septembre 2013

Tenured Professors May Not Be Better Teachers

Tenured professors at higher education institutions are certainly given more prestige than other lecturers. But are they better teachers? Research suggests maybe not. Khadeeja Safdar reports on the News Hub.

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15 septembre 2013

Quality regimes in Africa – Reality and aspirations

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By Juma Shabani. Since the middle of 2000, a number of initiatives have been launched in Africa to develop common frameworks for comparable and compatible qualifications, to promote academic mobility. Quality and quality assurance play a crucial role in these initiatives.
This article identifies and analyses the various higher education quality regimes and briefly discusses the challenges to implementing quality assurance, as well as the aspirations of African countries identified in recent commissioned research. More...

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15 septembre 2013

‘Soft power’ potential of international students lost

By Ryan M Allen. There is a certain assurance that the comparative international education community holds for international students. Overall student intake numbers are lauded as ‘wins’ for nations. The United States and other Western nations are often praised for their lion’s share of foreign student numbers, while the rest of the world continues to strategise ways in which to catch up with the current world leaders. More...

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15 septembre 2013

The end of the university? Not likely

By Eric Beerkens. Although the global apocalypse did not occur on 21 December 2012, the year 2012 was full of apocalyptic headlines about the end of the university as we know it. Three main drivers have been and still are fuelling these predictions: the worldwide massification of higher education; the increasing use of information and communication technology in teaching and the delivery of education; and the ongoing globalisation of higher education. More...

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15 septembre 2013

Agents and the ethics of international higher education

By Philip G Altbach and Liz Reisberg. Global student mobility creates big business. Approximately three million students are studying abroad, contributing more than US$75 billion to the global economy. There are multiple reasons for choosing to study abroad, among them a desire to increase employability in the home labour market, the inability to find relevant study opportunities at home, and the desire for migration. The motivations of countries and universities recruiting international students are equally complex and increasingly commercial. More...

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15 septembre 2013

Admissions weaknesses highlight system failings

By Serhiy Kvit. This year's student admissions campaign demonstrated all the weaknesses inherent in the Ukrainian higher education system. NGOs dealing with education were active, as always. From their publications and public actions we can get a general view of what is going on in the country. More...

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15 septembre 2013

Grants for 25,000 young researchers under Horizon 2020

By Jan Petter Myklebust. From 2014-20, 25,000 young researchers will receive grants from the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions programme, which has a budget of €4.7 billion (US$6.2 billion). This follows the reaching of an agreement during the European summer on the European Commission’s 8th Research Framework Programme within its Horizon 2020 initiative.
Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe’s global competitiveness. Within Horizon 2020, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions is a dedicated European Union (EU) programme for researchers’ skills development, with industry participation being mandatory in most sub-programmes. More...

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15 septembre 2013

Is Sweden recovering from the international student crash?

By Nic Mitchell. Swedish universities are looking to build on the first signs of recovery in the international student market, following the collapse in overseas applications when ‘full-cost’ tuition fees were introduced for non-European students in 2011. But they face a massive uphill task. More...

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15 septembre 2013

Somaliland university gains international recognition

By Matthew Newsome. British, Canadian and African universities have been partnering with the University of Hargeisa, in the breakaway state of Somaliland, to boost the institution’s international credibility and the recognition of its qualifications. Although international recognition has yet to be conferred on Somaliland since it separated from Somalia in 1991, its largest university – which has 6,500 students and is located in the capital city of Hargeisa – has been seeking foreign partners to supply higher education to Somaliland students. More...

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