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23 février 2014

The ‘soft power’ proof of the pudding – Not in the branding

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By Damtew Teferra. It is with interest that I followed the conversation between Jane Knight and John Kirkland on soft power and soft diplomacy in the last two weeks. First of all, I am not sure I would agree with Knight’s premise that the term soft power has become the ‘buzzword’ in international higher education circles; if it is, we have not noticed a hike in Africa, at least as far as I know. More...

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23 février 2014

Can international education be truly equal and global?

By Hans de Wit and Nico Jooste. The “Global Dialogue on the Future of International Education” organised by the International Education Association of South Africa in January 2014, was the most recent manifestation of an apparent need to redefine the internationalisation of higher education at the global, regional and national levels, and to set an agenda for the future. More...

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23 février 2014

Controversies over tuition fees and World Bank loans

By Tunde Fatunde. Three public tertiary institutions in Lagos, the richest state in Nigeria and West Africa, are embroiled in controversies over tuition fees. Lagos State University was temporarily closed following violent student protests over fees and other issues. Students and lecturers are opposed to the current fee regimes, which they claim deny qualified candidates access to higher education. They are convinced that the financial resources of the state are adequate to lessen the tuition burden. More...

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23 février 2014

New minister and the hot issues of quality, relevance

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Sofie Carsten Nielsen, who took over from Morten Østergaard as Denmark’s Minister for Higher Education and Science this month, has pledged to continue reforms underway – notably improving quality and the quest for greater workforce relevance. These have become hot and sometimes divisive issues across Scandinavia. More...

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23 février 2014

Academics vow to fight national research fund

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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