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16 juin 2014

Chine : Pas assez d'étudiants dans les facs !

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 inscritsSuite...

15 juin 2014

Expanding graduate education in Malaysia and Thailand

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Chiao-Ling Chien and David W Chapman. Across Asia, higher education enrolment has experienced explosive growth over the last few decades, from 20 million students in 1980 to 84 million in 2011. To serve this growing enrolment, graduate programmes needed to expand, both to supply more instructors and to upgrade existing instructors’ qualifications in cases where unqualified lecturers were hired to teach in response to increasing numbers of undergraduates. Read more...
15 juin 2014

The gaokao – The test where time stands still

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy John Richard Schrock. Police cars blocked the street, parked front bumper to back bumper, forming a barricade to traffic. Five blocks ahead, a similar barricade prevented any oncoming traffic. I had told my taxi driver "Yangling High School" and we had arrived.
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...
15 juin 2014

Challenges, opportunities for Korean student mobility

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Matthew Zingraff and Anne Schiller. International student mobility is on the rise. East Asian students are particularly mobile, and the number electing to remain within the region is growing. Regional education hubs are a means to compete for internationally mobile students.
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...
15 juin 2014

Rule opens higher education to foreign universities

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Mushfique Wadud. After considerable delay, Bangladesh’s Education Ministry has finally formulated a rule that allows foreign universities, branch campuses or study centres to operate academic activities in the country, fulfilling a long-standing demand by local representatives of foreign universities and some students. Read more...
15 juin 2014

Major reform as 600 universities become polytechnics

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Yojana Sharma. In a bid to reduce the huge number of university graduates with similar academic degrees competing with each other for the same jobs, China has announced that it will turn at least half of its public universities into institutions of applied learning or polytechnics to produce more technically trained graduates. Read more...
15 juin 2014

Media Release: Cost and Debt Shifting

http://www.nteu.org.au//var/files/thumbs/a780532dd116f8da145bac8c4c7961bc_e7e2a056b6c5e8722188bac5fbb3550f_w80_.jpgBy 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...

15 juin 2014

Don’t expect better student learning and staff working conditions by emulating the US university system

http://www.nteu.org.au//var/files/thumbs/a780532dd116f8da145bac8c4c7961bc_e7e2a056b6c5e8722188bac5fbb3550f_w80_.jpgBy 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...

10 juin 2014

Down Under or Upside Down? Higher-Education Reforms in Australia

By . 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...

9 juin 2014

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...

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