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22 décembre 2013

States should hand over uni control to commonwealth

By Bernard Lane. IF the Constitution were written today, universities would be seen as obviously a national responsibility, says vice-chancellor and lawyer Greg Craven.
"They are the national innovation system, they are critical for trade, they are the commanding heights of workforce management," he said.
Professor Craven, who leads the multi-state Australian Catholic University, was commenting on reports that Education Minister Christopher Pyne is discussing a plan for the universities of NSW to surrender state governance in favour of federal statutory control. More...

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22 décembre 2013

Universities blast reform delays

By Christian Wenande. University of Copenhagen and DTU among the universities unhappy with reform delays. The government’s decision to postpone implementing university reform aimed at pushing students through their studies faster has come under fire from the universities. According to the University of Copenhagen (KU) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the delay will have no effect. More...

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22 décembre 2013

University body withdraws gender segregation advice

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Guardian. The body that represents Britain's universities has withdrawn guidance on the gender segregation of audiences in lectures and debates after an intervention from David Cameron, write Rajeev Syal and Matthew Weaver for the Guardian.
Universities UK, or UUK, said that the controversial policy which allowed the voluntary separation of men and women at events such as lectures on Islam by visiting speakers was being dropped pending a review. The body had sought guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which said that while the law allows segregation by gender in premises being used for religious purposes, it was not permissible in an academic meeting or in a lecture open to the public. Full report on the Guardian site. More...

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22 décembre 2013

Protecting higher education from attack

By Diya Nijhowne. “We are being killed and maimed by conflict. We are dying because we want to learn.”
These are the words of a Syrian academic, reflecting on the massive devastation of his country’s education system during the past two years of civil strife and violence. Read more...

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22 décembre 2013

Time for change in Chilean higher education

By Emilio Rodríguez-Ponce. I read with interest Cristina González’s perceptive article on higher education in Chile and the dislocations that the highly privatised system of higher education, established during the 1973-90 military government of Augusto Pinochet, has produced in the country – now one of the most economically unequal in Latin America in spite of its growing prosperity. Read more...

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22 décembre 2013

Abenomics and world-class higher education ambition

By Jeremy Rappleye. Last May, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe boldly declared that “within the next three years, eight national universities will hire 1,500 leading researchers from around the world”. Recruiting foreign faculty would be the first step in a prodigious push to place 10 Japanese universities among the world’s top 100 over the next decade. Read more...

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22 décembre 2013

Students should be at the centre of internationalisation

By Robert Coelen. As educators, we need to be aware of the forces that shape the future of education and the world for which we prepare graduates. A major factor that will shape the global demand for higher education relates to the development of middle-class populations throughout the world. Read more...

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22 décembre 2013

University boards justify high pay for presidents

By Jack Stripling, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Robert J Zimmer is a man of few peers. The University of Chicago president, who heads one of America’s wealthiest institutions and gets free housing in a major metropolis, earned almost US$3.4-million in 2011, making him the highest paid private university leader in the United States that year, a Chronicle analysis has found. Read more...

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22 décembre 2013

One in 10 new graduates likely to join the brain drain

By Karen MacGregor. As tens of thousands of new graduates poured out of South Africa’s universities to hopefully enjoy the summer holidays, an important question for the country is whether they will find jobs next year and where they will go. A major graduate destination survey published earlier this year found that one in 10 is likely to end up abroad – “a significant loss”.
The study was conducted by the Cape Higher Education Consortium, or CHEC, a body set up by the four universities in Western Cape province to coordinate inter-institutional cooperation and academic programme collaboration. It published a report titled Pathways from University to Work. Read more...

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22 décembre 2013

From India and Canada, a grassroots model for MOOCs

By Kirk Perris. The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in conjunction with the Commonwealth of Learning in Vancouver, recently completed the delivery of its second MOOC entitled, “Mobiles for Development”, or M4D.
Co-led by Professor TV Prabhakar of IIT Kanpur and Dr V Balaji of the Commonwealth of Learning, or COL, the course was designed to provide learners with knowledge about the hardware of mobile devices and to engage in innovative uses for social development with these tools. The course ran over six weeks in October and November. Read more...

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