Par LRobinDesile. En Chine, les étudiants désertent les universités. Mais pour quelles raisons ? meltyCampus vous en dit plus !
La Chine a beau avoir une population supérieure à un milliard d’habitants, cela n’empêche pas les universités de se vider petit à petit. Au moins sept provinces et une région n’ont pas atteint le quota d’inscription fixé par l’Etat en 2013, et pire encore, les écarts sont conséquents. Par exemple, selon le site peopledaily, les universités dans le Shandong devaient recruter 529.900 élèves, mais seulement 466.300 étudiants se sont inscrits. Suite...
Expanding graduate education in Malaysia and Thailand
The gaokao – The test where time stands still
I faced the quietest scene in China since I landed in Beijing one week after the Wenchuan earthquake and the whole country came to a halt in a moment of silence. But this was an annual event and is the most critical time in the life of Chinese youth.
It was the second day of the two-day national high school leaving examination or college entrance exam, the gaokao. Read more...
Challenges, opportunities for Korean student mobility
A case in point is South Korea’s Incheon Global Campus, or IGC, part of a larger business, research and leisure hub in the Incheon Free Economic Zone, near the Incheon metropolitan area. Read more...
Rule opens higher education to foreign universities
Major reform as 600 universities become polytechnics
Media Release: Cost and Debt Shifting
By Paul Kniest. NTEU analysis released today shows that the Abbott Government is shifting debt and costs away from the government and onto students.
Crucially, it shows that the level of debt students will owe the government will exceed the Australian government’s net debt sometime in the early 2020s as a result of their higher education changes.
NTEU National President, Jeannie Rea said this was cost shifting on a grand scale. More...
Don’t expect better student learning and staff working conditions by emulating the US university system
By Jeannie Rea. Education Minister Pyne claims that he wants to deregulate the Australian university system to improve innovation and quality through outright competition. While he cites the United States higher education system as his model, this has been met with dismay and incredulity from within and outside the sector.
The gross education division by wealth in the US system, along with sloppy regulation, and out of control student debt does not make it a system to emulate. Indeed the US federal administration is desperately trying to reign in the billions of dollars in loans and grants by proposing an audit of universities and colleges examining student fees, progression rates and graduation outcomes, as it is very clear that there are numerous private, including for-profit colleges just ripping off students and families. More...
Down Under or Upside Down? Higher-Education Reforms in Australia
By Guest Writer. The following is by Jamie Miller, an incoming postdoctoral fellow at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University and a graduate of the University of Sydney.
It’s not news that higher education in the United States is in crisis. Student fees are out of control. Enrollment growth is slowing. Executive pay is skyrocketing. Faculty hiring and job security are plummeting. Nothing is working the way it is supposed to. Looking closely at the American system, the new government in Australia has decided on an overhaul of its own higher-education sector … by turning decisively towards the same marketization, competition, and “user pays” models it sees in the United States. More...
Be Careful What You Wish For
By Anthony Rogers Welch. The Australian government’s recent national spending audit opened a Pandora’s box of proposals, not least in higher education. Now that the federal budget has been proclaimed, it merits closer attention to three items related to higher education—public funding, privatization, and regulation. Read more...