Kleve International Universität
Ein bisschen Angst vor der Sprache hatte ich, als ich mein englisches Studium begann“, sagt Linda Rozendaal, die im sechsten Semester das Fach Information and Communication Design an der Hochschule Rhein-Waal studiert. Hier werden schon drei Viertel der Studiengänge in englischer Sprache angeboten. Immerhin ein Viertel der Studierenden kommt aus dem Ausland.
Linda Rozendaal brauchte zuvor, während ihrer Ausbildung zur Bürokauffrau, selbst ihr Schulenglisch nur selten. „Aber man kommt rein in das Fachvokabular, wenn man ständig englische Texte liest und ab und zu etwas nachschlägt. Außerdem helfen die Profs, wenn es ein Verständnisproblem gibt“, sagt die angehende Designern. „Ich kann ein Studium auf Englisch nur empfehlen, weil es einen vielseitiger einsetzbar macht.“ Mehr...
European and Arab University leadership discuss cooperation priorities in Barcelona
Jointly organised by UB, EUA and the Association of Arab Universities (AARU), this was the first conference between the two associations, and hence focused on prospects for closer cooperation between them. The conference addressed, in particular, university leadership (approximately 100 rectors attended), and discussed a wide array of topics such as the internationalisation of higher education, research training and doctoral education, frameworks for higher education convergence and employability and university-labour market interaction.
An inspiring keynote speech was given by Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan of Jordan, founder of the Princess Sumaya University for Technology, who highlighted the critical need for Arab countries to boost their research capacity and underpin growth and modernisation with knowledge. She stressed how the European higher education integration project — the Bologna Process — is an important model and vision that should be emulated by the Arab world. Read more...
Board of Investment leads island bid to become HE hub
UWN: Why are international institutions establishing branches in Mauritius?
Poonoosamy: With its bilingual educational system and a multicultural learning environment, Mauritius is positioning itself as an international knowledge hub. Read more...
China in African education – A force for good?
Looking Past China
By Elizabeth Redden. China has in recent years dominated the flow of international undergraduates coming to the United States – but that’s an old story. A session Thursday at the annual NAFSA: Association of International Educators conference focused on identifying “the next big thing” (or place) in international student recruitment, drawing on data from the College Board and the experiences of recruiters at two different types of institutions. “China and India have been top of mind,” said Clay Hensley, director of international relations and strategy for the College Board. Saudi Arabia too, where, due to the King Abdullah Foreign Scholarship Program, the numbers of students coming to the U.S. increased by 50 percent last year. Read more...
La OCDE lanza el Índice para una Vida Mejor 3.0: la satisfacción ante la vida, la salud y la educación son las máximas prioridad
“Nuestro Índice para una Vida Mejor va más allá de las frías y duras cifras del PIB para intentar entender realmente qué quieren y esperan las personas para sus propias vidas y sus sociedades”, indica Angel Gurría, Secretario General de la OCDE. “Estoy encantado de que sigamos actualizándolo con nueva información y nuevas lenguas, para poder obtener una visión verdaderamente mundial del bienestar”. Read more...
Learning from other countries’ experiences in education
For example, the profile on Australia reports that, while the country is a top PISA performer and has high completion rates in upper secondary and tertiary education, its PISA scores have not improved since 2000. In addition to targeting teacher and school leadership quality and evaluation and assessment, the country has been focusing on defining a more transparent and fairer funding model for schools presented recently in a national plan for school improvement. Read more...
Getting our youth back to work
There is no group for whom this is more important than today’s young people. Between 2008 and 2011, the gap in unemployment rates between higher- and less-educated youth widened dramatically. While young people with advanced skills have weathered the crisis reasonably well, those without foundation skills have suffered. Unemployment among young people without a high school education soared 20% in Estonia and Ireland and 15% in Greece and Spain. The short-term impact on individuals, families and communities beg for urgent policy responses; the longer-term impact, in terms of skills loss, scarring effects and de-motivation, will affect countries’ potential for recovery. Without the right skills, people will languish on the margins of society, technological progress will not translate into economic growth, and countries can’t compete in the global economy. Read more...
Creativity in schools: what countries do (or could do)
The recent international OECD-CCE-Singapore workshop gave 30 education decision-makers from 12 countries the opportunity to share the lessons from Asian educational initiatives aiming to foster pupils’ creativity and critical thinking. While most of these initiatives build on project-based, research-based, and other active pedagogies, some start to use design thinking methods to scaffold the learning of innovation skills. Read more...