A group of Afghan students gathered on the leafy campus of Kabul University recently to embark on an unlikely course – the country's first masters degree in gender and women's studies, write Krista Mahr and Aimal Yaqubi for Reuters. Read more...
01 novembre 2015
Women’s studies offered at Kabul University
Graduates seek job skills at community colleges
A surprising one out of every 14 people who attend community colleges – widely regarded as low-tuition options for the less well-prepared – has already earned a bachelor degree, according to the American Association of Community Colleges. That’s 770,000 students. At some community colleges, the proportion is as high as one in five, writes Matt Krupnick for The Hechinger Report. Read more...
Universities to focus on subject-based rankings
Russian universities will aim to rise in international subject-based rankings, rather than institutional ones due to "a different organisational structure" of Russian institutions, writes Gleb Fedorov for Russia Beyond The Headlines. Read more...
18 universities on the brink of shutdown
The college year simply didn’t start for more than 300,000 students across Venezuela, amid a widespread faculty strike that has closed down 18 public universities, writes Franz von Bergen for Fox News Latino. Read more...
Choice Based Credit System needs systemic changes
By Alya Mishra. Earlier this year, India’s central universities agreed to roll out the controversial Choice Based Credit System, or CBCS, from the start of the 2015 academic session in July. A few months down the line, universities are struggling to accommodate the structural changes that CBCS demands. Read more...
What does it mean to be human?
By Brennan Weiss. Cornel West, a provocative civil rights activist and professor of philosophy and Christian practice at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, is one of America’s most outspoken critics of race relations in the United States. Read more...
Private HE, branch campuses key to enrolment growth
By Yojana Sharma. Ambitious education targets including doubling Malaysia’s higher education participation rate and increasing the number of foreign students could be hard to reach without improving the quality of local universities to attract more students. Read more...
UK and Ireland gain in Horizon 2020 top 50 performers
By Jan Petter Myklebust. An analysis of the top performers in the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme, or H2020, shows that the UK has strengthened its position, along with the Netherlands and Ireland, compared with the Seventh Framework Programme; and Switzerland is no longer represented. Read more...
What do employers (and employees) want?
By Margaret Andrews. During the summer I wrote a post entitled "What skills do employers want most?" that generated some traffic and discussion. Since that time, there’s been more support for the need for – and pay-off from – having schools focus more on the ‘soft skills’, including a recent New York Times article that notes, just like in kindergarten, that the most important factor for success in the world of work may be whether one “plays well with others”. Read more...
A step in the right direction for women?
By Ali Reza Yunespour. On 17 October 2015, Kabul University launched a Masters Programme in Gender and Women’s Studies. Initiated and funded by the United Nations Development Programme, or UNDP, and the government of South Korea, the programme aims to provide training for gender advocates, raise social awareness and encourage gender research. Read more...
