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23 février 2014

Universities stand to benefit in recessions, new research shows

Universities across the world actually benefit during recessions, wielding far greater recruiting power to attract talented graduates compared to the private sector, shows new research from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
In tough financial times the stability of the academic world wins out over the boom-and-bust cycle of the private sector, according to the latest evidence. More...

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23 février 2014

Reforms to improve higher education access and quality

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By Gilbert Nganga. Burundi, an East African Community, or EAC, member state and the region’s smallest nation, has over the past few years been toiling to rebuild higher education, which had lagged behind due to a decade long conflict that started in 1993. As a result, the country – which joined the EAC bloc in 2007 – still has a nascent higher education sector compared to its East African partners Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. More...

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23 février 2014

Internationalising the campus one student at a time

By Karl Markgraf. An innovative programme is helping the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire internationalise its campus by providing new opportunities for students and faculty in all academic disciplines to engage in research, creative activities and service projects throughout the world. The recipient of the Institute of International Education's 2014 Andrew Heiskell Award for Internationalising the Campus, UW-Eau Claire's International Fellows Program – IFP – capitalises on the strength and success of high impact academic experiences that have long been offered on our campus. More...

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23 février 2014

Austrian survey highlights benefits of study abroad

By Evelyne Glaser. The vast majority of students who have taken part in international study abroad programmes underline the importance of this invaluable experience for their personal development as well as for their professional career. However, to this day, there has not been much substantial and comprehensive research that provides statistical support to the subjective positive evaluation of the effects of international student exchange programmes. More...

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23 février 2014

Wales is punching above its weight in research

By Peter W Halligan. Wales is a small, ambitious country within the United Kingdom with a strong and growing international research base, much of which is not fully recognised in Wales or internationally. Over the past five years several reports have suggested that Welsh research has not performed as well as other UK countries or countries of a similar size. More...

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23 février 2014

Let us focus research on what we do best

By Errol Morrison. “There are some things which we in the Caribbean will do best...and there are some things which only we in the Caribbean will want to do!” These are the words of Nobel laureate in economics, the late Professor Sir Arthur Lewis. Our small, struggling economies in the Caribbean need to focus on areas where we have demonstrated we can be world beaters, and as such develop a body of knowledge championed by the scientific research and innovation in our region. More...

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23 février 2014

The ‘soft power’ proof of the pudding – Not in the branding

By Damtew Teferra. It is with interest that I followed the conversation between Jane Knight and John Kirkland on soft power and soft diplomacy in the last two weeks. First of all, I am not sure I would agree with Knight’s premise that the term soft power has become the ‘buzzword’ in international higher education circles; if it is, we have not noticed a hike in Africa, at least as far as I know. More...

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23 février 2014

Can international education be truly equal and global?

By Hans de Wit and Nico Jooste. The “Global Dialogue on the Future of International Education” organised by the International Education Association of South Africa in January 2014, was the most recent manifestation of an apparent need to redefine the internationalisation of higher education at the global, regional and national levels, and to set an agenda for the future. More...

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23 février 2014

Controversies over tuition fees and World Bank loans

By Tunde Fatunde. Three public tertiary institutions in Lagos, the richest state in Nigeria and West Africa, are embroiled in controversies over tuition fees. Lagos State University was temporarily closed following violent student protests over fees and other issues. Students and lecturers are opposed to the current fee regimes, which they claim deny qualified candidates access to higher education. They are convinced that the financial resources of the state are adequate to lessen the tuition burden. More...

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23 février 2014

New minister and the hot issues of quality, relevance

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Sofie Carsten Nielsen, who took over from Morten Østergaard as Denmark’s Minister for Higher Education and Science this month, has pledged to continue reforms underway – notably improving quality and the quest for greater workforce relevance. These have become hot and sometimes divisive issues across Scandinavia. More...

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