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24 mars 2013

Creating rounded managers for a global society

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By Santiago Iñiguez. There is no magic formula for turning somebody into a consummate manager. Good managers are made over time, based on the systematic exercise of good habits and routines, and through the accumulated experience of their sector and their relationships.
To reach the heights of management excellence requires discipline and hard work. It is not achieved simply through the passage of time. Nevertheless, universities and business schools can help lay the foundations for this process by providing a more integrated and rounded education to current and future managers. Read more...

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24 mars 2013

Far East aims high for international student numbers

By Ryan M Allen. International education used to be dominated by Western countries. While the US and the UK are still the leaders in foreign student intake, East Asia is quickly becoming a major player in this sector. China, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan have made huge investments in international education, with the aim of attracting more students from around the world.
China has caught up developmentally in higher education internationalisation compared to its East Asian neighbours, and even surpassed them in many ways. This is connected to the government’s long-term effort to modernise the education system. Read more...

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24 mars 2013

Don't take too much notice of rankings

By Philip G Altbach. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently chastised Indian universities for having no institutions in the ‘top 200’ of the global higher education rankings. He sees this poor showing as an indication of the low quality of Indian higher education. Indian authorities also said that only overseas universities in the global ‘top 500’ would be permitted to establish a branch campus or joint-degree programme in India. Other countries use the global rankings for internal purposes. Singapore uses them as a benchmark and as an indicator of where scholarship students may be sent. Read more...

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24 mars 2013

Internationalisation must embrace intercultural living

By Abu Kamara. A fundamental need for growth seems to be pushing universities towards embracing non-traditional models of higher education.
Universities are not only developing sophisticated recruitment infrastructures to attract students from across the globe but also innovative strategies to take education services directly to students – study-abroad campuses and massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are just two examples. Although universities have for the most part been the dominant actors on the higher education stage, they may have to hand over some traditional education responsibilities to non-traditional actors, to meet growing demand. Read more...

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24 mars 2013

‘Modernising HE’ debate on diversity, success rates

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Improving attainment among underrepresented groups in higher education and stemming drop-out rates across Europe were top of the agenda at a workshop of the EMMA – Embracing the Modernisation Agenda – partnership in Brussels last month.
EMMA is a response to the European Commission’s September 2011 communication on “Supporting Growth and Jobs – An agenda for the modernisation of Europe’s higher education systems”, which its partners interpreted as an invitation for in-depth debate on the main challenges facing the sector that the commission identified. These challenges are: increasing higher education attainment levels; improving quality and relevance; strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation; linking higher education, research and business; and improving governance and funding. Read more...

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24 mars 2013

New leaders sworn in but continuity in higher education expected

By Yojana Sharma. China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) formally installed the country’s top leadership at its annual session from 5-17 March. But the higher education minister remains unchanged and analysts say ‘talent development’ will continue to be a key part of China’s economic development policy under the new leaders.
Yan Guiren, who became education minister in 2009, retains his post despite once-in-a-decade changes at the top. Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, anointed by last November’s 18th party congress, officially took over as president from Hu Jintao on 13 March, while former vice-premier Li Keqiang succeeded Wen Jiabao as premier. Read more...

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24 mars 2013

Mahmood Mamdani – An intellectual leader in African higher education

By Josh Kron. The role of senior academics in leading higher education is more difficult to define than that of vice-chancellors. But some intellectuals are arguably so prominent that they inspire change and development – and such is the case with Professor Mahmood Mamdani, internationally renowned commentator on African history, politics and society.
Once voted the world’s ninth most important public intellectual by the US’s Foreign Policy and the UK’s Prospect magazines, he is today director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University in Uganda’s capital Kampala. He is also Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University in New York. Read more...

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24 mars 2013

Ministerial meeting agrees priorities for innovation

By Wagdy Sawahel. African ministers, senior United Nations officials and representatives of the private sector and civil society met in Tanzania this month and identified key priorities in promoting the role of science, technology and innovation, or STI, in supporting development in Africa.
The measures were announced at the meeting, which was one of a series held in preparation for the Annual Ministerial Review of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), which will be held in Geneva in July. Read more...

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24 mars 2013

Loans offered to thousands more tertiary students

By Maina Waruru. Thousands of Kenyan students pursuing post-secondary technical and vocational education and training, or TIVET, will start benefiting from state loans for the first time this year. Previously, students in public universities had the monopoly on state support.
Learners in TIVET institutions will be able to access support from the Higher Education Loans Board, HELB, to help them meet the costs of their education and repay the debt after graduation. The move is seen by experts as aimed at encouraging more young Kenyans to acquire technical skills, which are acutely lacking across the country. In future, loans will also be extended to students in private institutions and to adult learners. Read more...

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24 mars 2013

Students shun part-time higher education as costs soar

By David Jobbins. Part-time students in the UK are shunning higher education because of the costs they face, says a new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute. Demand has dropped significantly despite the fact that some part-time students now qualify for access to loans on a similar basis to full-time students, according to the report. Government estimates were that around 175,000 part-time students would be eligible for loans to cover their tuition fees, out of a total part-time undergraduate population of about 459,000 in 2011-12. Read more...

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