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24 mai 2017

Vocational education lacks long-term strategy – Expert

A leading expert says the AU$1.5 billion (US$1.1 billion) Skilling Australians Fund for vocational education announced in the federal budget is welcome, but Australia needs a longer term strategy to ensure that the vocational side of tertiary education can be expanded to meet student needs, writes Tim Dodd for Financial Review. More...

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24 mai 2017

Education minister announces plan to outlaw essay mills

The education minister is looking to clamp down on 'essay mills' that are selling work to third-level students, writes Stephen McNeice for News Talk. More...

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24 mai 2017

Hong Kong research funding shortfall hits HK$12 billion

Hong Kong’s main public funding body for academic research says it needs an extra HK$12 billion (US$1.5 billion) to maintain its current level of support for universities, with its cash surplus set to dry up in two years, writes Peace Chiu for South China Morning Post. More...

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24 mai 2017

University rushes to fill 4,000 permanent faculty posts

With barely days left to begin the much-awaited admission process in the country's most-prestigious university, the administrators of the University of Delhi are still grappling with how to fast fill the vacant 4,000 positions of permanent faculty, most of which are still occupied by ad hoc professors, writes Arpan Rai for India Today. More...

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24 mai 2017

Statistics show over half of students fail to graduate

The figures indicate that no more than 42% of the students enrolled in Moroccan universities graduate, whereas the majority, an eye-opening 58%, drop out before obtaining their bachelor degree. More...

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24 mai 2017

Work placements to increase HE ‘professionalisation’

The higher education ministry has introduced a new system of university work placements to increase the ‘professionalisation’ of higher education through a partnership with businesses to improve the provision of work experience in university courses. More...

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24 mai 2017

Meeting shares engineering research, training challenges

The preliminary report on Recherche et formation en ingénierie avancée en Afrique de l’ouest et du centre (Research and education in advanced engineering in West and Central Africa) was presented at the meeting by the Dakar-based Consortium pour la Recherche Économique et Sociale, or CRES, and the Ottawa-based International Development Research Centre/Centre de Recherches pour le Développement International, or IDRC/CRDI. More...

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24 mai 2017

The textbook – Not a substitute for teaching in HE

By Nita Temmerman. Textbooks have been around for a very long time. And textbooks are still set as compulsory purchases for students on many undergraduate university courses. More...

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24 mai 2017

Why data-driven science is more than just a buzzword

By Tara Murphy. Forget looking through a telescope at the stars. An astronomer today is more likely to be online: digitally scheduling observations, running them remotely on a telescope in the desert, and downloading the results for analysis. More...

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24 mai 2017

Higher education should embrace digital possibilities

By Sonal Minocha and Dean Hristov. Digital – the convergence of social media, mobile and the web – has become a leading player in the knowledge economy at a time of major tech disruption. Today about half the world’s population owns a smartphone; by 2020, 80% will. Mobile technology enables the digital economy and this has had a huge impact across many sectors. More...

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