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25 janvier 2018

‘Castells in Africa’ – Some insights for universities

By Johan Muller, Nico Cloete and François van Schalkwyk. After considering the detailed empirical pictures sketched in Chapters 6 to 9 of Castells in Africa: Universities and Development, it is sobering to return to the very first of the three chapters by Castells (Chapter 3), and to realise again how prescient it was, and how many pitfalls it anticipated. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Manuel Castells – Inspiring fundamental change

By Jamil Salmi. For the past two years, the violent student protests associated with the ‘Fees Must Fall’ movement in South Africa have been a strong reminder of the unique paradox that has characterised the country’s higher education system since the end of apartheid. On the one hand, South Africa’s top universities are the most advanced in the entire continent in terms of their capacity to train doctoral students and the international visibility of their research production. More...

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25 janvier 2018

What the higher education Brexit debate has not covered

By Vangelis Tsiligiris and Alex de Ruyter. There has been a lot of speculation about the potential impact of Brexit on higher education in the United Kingdom. This has been particularly pronounced with regard to the following three aspects: 1) European Union inbound student mobility; 2) access to EU research funding; and 3) recruitment of EU staff. The forecasted impact of Brexit on each of these three areas has varied significantly, with reports often contradicting each other. Meanwhile uncertainty reigns. More...

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25 janvier 2018

The university – Decisive battlefield and source of hope

By Manuel Castells. The analyses and policies on higher education and development compiled in Castells in Africa: Universities and Development were elaborated and discussed in South Africa with the broader African context in mind. I add here a few considerations that take into account the social transformations that have taken place in the last decade in the world economy and in the global institutional environment. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Can foreign branch campuses be research universities?

By Agustian Sutrisno. Many international branch campuses, or IBCs, are established by research-intensive universities in their home countries, such as Monash University Malaysia and NYU Abu Dhabi. There are also cases when a partnership needs to be formed between foreign and local universities – Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou is an example of an IBC whose ‘parent’ universities are both classified as research universities. More...

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25 janvier 2018

US share of international students will keep falling

By Lennart Levi and Bo Rothstein. What do I know? Montaigne
I suspect that many readers of this article will either dismiss the premise that colleges and universities in the United States will continue to lose international student market share or dispute the facts I list. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Educating ethical leaders and critical thinkers

By Lennart Levi and Bo Rothstein. The Global Risks Report 2017 by the World Economic Forum and Global Catastrophic Risks 2017 by the Global Challenges Foundation catalogue an impressive series of major threats to human survival. The reading is enough to make you sleepless for several nights. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Nordic path to automatic recognition of qualifications

By Stig Arne Skjerven. Last year marked the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Lisbon Recognition Convention, which has had a major impact on mobility in the European Higher Education Area. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Provide solutions to challenges, universities told

By Tonderayi Mukeredzi. President Emmerson Mnangagwa says universities must offer productive and responsive higher education, relevant to the needs of the economy, by harnessing knowledge and skills that promote economic development through science, technology and research. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Court overturns university admissions restrictions regime

By Michael Gardner. According to a recent Federal Constitutional Court ruling, the procedure for allocating places to study medicine in Germany is unfair. The court calls on federal and state governments to establish new procedures. More...

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