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19 février 2014

Uncertain times for higher education accreditation

By Karen MacGregor. Last year President Barack Obama spooked higher education when he announced his intention to hold institutions more accountable for cost, value and quality and called for affordability and outcomes benchmarks – perhaps even a new accreditation system. In his state of the union address last month, ‘accreditation’ was not mentioned but with upcoming reauthorisation of the Higher Education Act, the issue looms large. More...
19 février 2014

No moral dilemma about soft diplomacy

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy John Kirkland. Maybe I am getting old and careless – but sometimes I think that we in higher education worry just a bit too much. This thought struck me again last week, when I read a thoughtful article by Jane Knight in University World News titled “The limits of soft power in higher education”. More...
19 février 2014

Competency-based degrees – The quiet revolution?

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Marguerite J Dennis. Over the past two years hardly a day has passed without an article about massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Critics protested that MOOCs would mean the end of higher education as we knew it. Supporters hailed MOOCs as the saviour of higher education in the future. More...
19 février 2014

Private universities may ‘bypass’ professional bodies

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Dinesh De Alwis. A decision by Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Higher Education to allow private universities to offer degrees, including medical qualifications, without seeking the approval of professional bodies has sparked a row with major professional groups. Doctors, lecturers, students, trade unions and bodies including the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka, Government Medical Officers’ Association and the Sri Lanka Medical Council, or SLMC, have called on the ministry to withdraw the official gazette notification issued last week. More...
19 février 2014

New global book on collaborative degree programmes

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Michael Gardner. The Institute of International Education in the United States and DAAD – the German Academic Exchange Service – have published a book that looks at the field of international collaborative degree programmes.
Global Perspectives on International Joint and Double Degree Programs was conceived as an orientation for higher education institutions, government agencies and other organisations. It contains essays by 33 experts from six regions across the world. More...
19 février 2014

Bold plan to raise US$224.7 million for student loans

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Gilbert Nganga. Kenya is seeking to have all financers of university education channel their funds through the Higher Education Loans Board, or HELB, in a bid to guarantee the sustainability of the currently faltering student funding mechanism. In a new strategic plan, HELB said this would give the country a sustainable and larger revolving fund that would ensure continuity and availability of loans for students. More...
19 février 2014

BRICS endorse more cooperation in science, technology

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Munyaradzi Makoni. The BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – have consolidated their cooperation at a first ministerial meeting on science, technology and innovation. The nations agreed to support people-centred science for the public good in a technologically changing global environment. The meeting, held in Kleinmond outside Cape Town on 10-11 February to discuss joint science programmes, adopted a declaration to strengthen cooperation in science, technology and innovation, or STI, within the BRICS framework. More...
19 février 2014

Swiss poll result could damage higher education Michael Gardner

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Jane Marshall. The shock result of a Swiss referendum on immigration policy could have serious consequences for the country’s higher education and research system. A top higher education official has warned that curbs on immigration could spell a “great tragedy” for Swiss science. More...
19 février 2014

English university budgets slashed, heads 'rebuked' over pay

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy David Jobbins. Universities and other higher education institutions in England face further heavy cuts in direct support from the UK government – with the cuts continuing after the next general election, due in May 2015. And the government says it is concerned at the upward drift of salaries for vice-chancellors and other top posts and has urged 'restraint'. The academics’ trade union described the government's intervention as a “rebuke” for vice-chancellors. More...
19 février 2014

Hollande pledges €2 billion for excellence initiatives

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Jane Marshall. French President François Hollande has announced funding of €2 billion (US$2.7 billion) for the creation of new regional university research centres, under a second wave of ‘Initiatives of Excellence’, or Idex.
Speaking at ISIS, the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires at the University of Strasbourg, Hollande also promised to protect spending on public research, in spite of the government’s obligation to make economies of €50 billion in the next three years. More...
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