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23 février 2014

Academics vow to fight national research fund

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By Francis Kokutse. Ghana’s government has gone ahead and set up a committee to draw up modalities for a proposed national research fund to support the activities of academics – even though lecturers have vowed to fight the fund because it would scrap current allowances. More...

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23 février 2014

New admissions body to boost enrolment equity

By Gilbert Nganga. Kenya has moved to reform the way students are admitted to universities by launching a new body that will equitably place learners in public and private universities as well as colleges. The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service, or KUCCPS, will have representatives from private universities and colleges, a departure from the past when central admissions was the preserve of public universities. More...

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23 février 2014

India boosts HE cooperation with North Africa

By Wagdy Sawahel. In an effort to expand its ‘Look Middle East’ policy, India has announced a number of initiatives to boost higher education cooperation with three major natural resources-rich North African countries – Morocco, Tunisia and Sudan. The initiatives were unveiled during a week-long visit by India's External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid to the three Arab African countries, linked to India's food and energy security needs. More...

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23 février 2014

World Bank rolls out African centres of excellence

By Munyaradzi Makoni. The World Bank continued rolling out its African centres of excellence initiative this month, meeting representatives of universities in Nigeria – the country won 10 of the 15 centres – to discuss logistics around how the funding will be disbursed. The project seeks to promote regional scientific specialisation to deliver quality training and research, starting in West and Central Africa. More...

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23 février 2014

Hope that entrance exam changes will reduce cramming

By Hiep Pham. With growing aspirations for higher education, and domestic institutions providing only enough places to meet a quarter of student demand, ‘shadow’ education has emerged as one of Vietnam’s fastest growing services in an increasingly competitive admissions environment. Many blame the rise in cramming on the ferociously competitive one-size-fits-all university entrance examination, known as the ‘three commons', which requires school-leavers to sit tests in three subjects over two days. More...

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23 février 2014

Student anti-plagiarism measures reap rewards

By Peta Lee. Student plagiarism might be alive and well and sprouting up in campuses around the world, but in Slovakia, at least, measures put in place in 2010 are bearing fruit. For the past four years, all Slovak higher education institutions have been obligatory users of an 'Antiplag' programme – and since 2011 there has been open access to its Central Repository of Theses and Dissertations. More...

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23 février 2014

Mixed reactions to new research excellence fund

By Peta Lee. Starting in 2015, the Canada First Research Excellence Fund is to provide C$1.5 billion (US$1.4 billion) over a decade to support university research that contributes to the country’s long-term economic competitiveness. More...

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23 février 2014

Universities back war on red tape

By Geoff Maslen. Australia’s conservative federal government has “declared war on red and green tape” and plans to hold the first of two ‘Repeal Days’ on 26 March, as part of its programme to abolish more than 8,000 laws and regulations it claims have clogged the arteries of federal agencies for years. Copied from America, where the US Congress has regular repeal days, the government will present an “omnibus red tape repeal bill” to parliament next month which it says represents the biggest single reduction in federal laws since the Commonwealth of Australia was established in 1901. More...

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23 février 2014

Europe shelves HE and research negotiations with Swiss

By Michael Gardner. The European Union has shelved negotiations with Switzerland over two major higher education and research programmes. The move came after the Swiss government’s announcement that it would deny EU member Croatia talks over a labour market agreement. Switzerland’s announcement last weekend that it was suspending negotiations with Croatia on free access to the Swiss labour market came as a direct consequence of the referendum a week earlier in which a slender majority of voters opted for tougher immigration regulations. More...

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23 février 2014

Beat the tuition bloat: Column

By Glenn Harlan Reynolds. "Why am I paying so much tuition to people whose job seems to be telling me to call someone else?"
That was my daughter's lament last week as she tried to pry an essential form out of her college's labyrinthine bureaucracy, but it's a question that many Americans should be asking. Administrative bloat at American colleges and universities is out of hand, and it's probably the biggest cause of the skyrocketing tuitions that afflict students and parents today. Everyone knows that tuitions have skyrocketed, though many may not appreciate the full extent of the problem. As University of Michigan economics and finance professor Mark Perry has calculated, college tuition increased from 1978 to 2011 at an annual rate of 7.45%. More...

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