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22 mars 2015

UGC encouraging career-oriented courses in colleges, universities

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By Rajya Sabha. The University Grants Commission is encouraging implementation of skill-based and career-oriented courses in colleges and universities through several new schemes, HRD Minister Smriti Irani said on Wednesday.
Replying to questions in Lok Sabha, she said a scheme called 'Introduction of Career Oriented Courses' (COCs) was being implemented, under which the UGC provides financial assistance to eligible universities and colleges to introduce COCs at certificate, diploma or advance diploma levels which would run concurrently with conventional degrees like BA, BCom and BSc. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

Macau is becoming a higher education destination for Chinese students

By Elaine Yau. Just as casinos have proliferated across Macau in the past 15 years, so too have colleges. When the city returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1999, it was home to two universities and two tertiary institutions. Since then the total has more than doubled to 10. That's a lot of college places for a city of just 600,000 people. Perhaps not surprisingly, most of the slack is being taken up by students from mainland China. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

Location is key to attracting foreign students

By Maurits van Rooijen. Some two decades ago, I moved from my native Netherlands to London to take up a position at the University of Westminster. Since that name was then only one year old, I thought it would be good to attend some of the British Council recruitment fairs abroad and see how the university and its new name were perceived by potential students across the globe. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

Science is at the heart of the reform process

By Serhiy Kvit. Last summer, a new higher education law was finally passed. It was a true victory for the academic community, civil society and the revolution. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

A Frankenstein recruiting system feeding off students

By Mike Gow. China’s appetite for education is insatiable. The expansion of its domestic higher education system has seen the gross enrolment rate of school-leavers rise from 4% to 33% between 1998 and 2014. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

What is an International University?

By Hans de Wit. Over the past few years a series of buzzwords – global citizenship, comprehensive internationalisation and world-class university – have taken over discussions about international higher education. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

Even university competitors are joining forces

By Geoff Maslen. The idea of universities collaborating with others around the world is no longer unusual but, increasingly, university faculties and schools are also forming alliances with their counterparts in other institutions to boost research output, improve graduation rates, attract students to potentially unpopular programmes and improve existing curricula. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

New high-tech forum advises government on innovation

By Michael Gardner. A new committee has been created to advise the federal government on issues concerning its high-tech policies. The High-Tech Forum consists of experts from politics, science and society. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

Reform vote leaves universities uncertain of funding

By Geoff Maslen. An inept government and its even more inept education minister have left the nation’s vice-chancellors uncertain where their future funding will come from after the senate rejected a higher education reform bill for the second time. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

Region heading for HE ‘powerhouse’ status

By Yojana Sharma. Many Asian countries have been setting ambitious goals to expand and improve their higher education sectors to respond to their growing aspirational middle class and as a result are on the way to catching up with and even overtaking the best higher education systems of the West. Read more...

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