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10 juillet 2018

Replacing the UGC won’t solve India’s problems

By Harivansh Chaturvedi. The decade-long uncertainty about the future of the University Grants Commission (UGC) may soon end. The Human Resource Development Ministry has released a draft bill to dissolve the UGC and set up the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) in its place. More...

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10 juillet 2018

Chinese HE’s contribution to the global common good

By Lin Tian and Nian Cai Liu. Factors such as privatisation and marketisation have tended to detract from the ‘public side’ of higher education in recent years, meaning the idea of higher education as a public good has been challenged in many countries. As researchers focusing on public good(s) and higher education, we have conducted the first empirical study on this theme in China and hope this research will make some contributions to knowledge at an international level. More...

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10 juillet 2018

Engaging and retaining students through video capture

By Linda Storey. The last 10 years have seen a growing emphasis on widening participation and access to higher education across the world. Yet there are so many significant changes taking place, affecting everything from international student mobility to recruitment trends to regional and global graduate employability that it is hard to predict with much accuracy what the future of higher education holds or to be sure that your institution is primed to be responsive. More...

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10 juillet 2018

Has teaching in higher education become redundant?

By Wafa Singh. Today, we live in a ‘Google’ world, where we have all information, data, facts and theory at one click of the fingertip. For the ‘tech-savvy’ NextGen, Google has become their ‘go-to’ solution. For anything they need, they turn to the internet search engine and the answer is with them, in micro-seconds. More...

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10 juillet 2018

Demand for institution to be upgraded to university

By Shadi Khan Saif. A leading public sector teacher training institute in Afghanistan has remained in lockdown for nearly two months over demands by students and teachers that it be upgraded to a university to provide better job opportunities for its graduates, higher salaries for faculty members, and enhance the recognition of their credentials in a difficult job market. More...

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10 juillet 2018

Financial costs deter thousands of masters students

By Geoff Maslen. More than 130,000 Australians are undertaking one or other of nearly 1,200 masters degrees by coursework offered by the nation’s universities. But while a masters degree has become the required qualification to gain entry to an increasing number of occupations, the cost deters many students. More...

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10 juillet 2018

Brexit risks for Danish higher education and research

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Danish universities are concerned about the lack of focus on higher education in the Brexit negotiations so far. More...

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10 juillet 2018

EU students’ post-Brexit loans and fees guaranteed

By Brendan O'Malley. The Department for Education in the United Kingdom has announced that European Union students starting courses next year (2019-20) in England – months after the UK is due to leave the EU – will remain eligible to receive government-backed loans to cover their tuition fees for the duration of their courses. More...

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10 juillet 2018

Drop in applications expected to hit universities hard

By Eugene Vorotnikov. Russian universities are expected to face a shortage of applicants during this year’s enrolment campaign, scheduled for this month, due to a sharp decline in the youth population, according to a report of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and statements of some senior officials of the Russian federal government. More...

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10 juillet 2018

New regulatory body will push HE quality and autonomy

By Shuriah Niazi and Yojana Sharma. The Indian government has put forward two draft acts to dismantle its existing higher education regulatory body, the University Grants Commission (UGC), and replace it with a new body with a reduced role over university financing but greater powers in areas which the government says will improve academic standards. More...

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