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By Karen MacGregor – Africa Editor. In Africa Analysis, Tom P Abeles maintains that student unrest in the United States and South Africa reflects deep problems with their education systems that academics and students ought to tackle together, and Jenny J Lee describes how the hit-or-miss enactment of immigration policies by South Africa is wreaking havoc among international students.
In Africa Features, we interview the executive director of the European Association for International Education Leonard Engel about issues confronting international education, ahead of the Global Conference on Internationalisation of Higher Education in South Africa next month. And Wachira Kigotho unpacks an African Development Bank report that accuses Egypt’s universities of exacerbating youth unemployment by failing to equip graduates with the skills to fill 600,000 private sector vacancies.
In World Blog, Hans de Wit contends that growing divides between world-class and other universities are tempting many institutions in directions of corruption and unethical behaviour.
In Commentary, among other articles Angel Calderon welcomes the new Times Higher Education Latin America university rankings, but writes that there is room for improvement and some omissions. Cristina González and Liliana Pedraja argue that Hillary Clinton’s plans for free tuition for some students and Chile’s bid to roll back privatisation represent the reassertion of higher education as a public good. And Robert Coelen and Jiang Bo outline the breathtaking scale of higher education internationalisation in China, and its key lines of development. Read more...

By Karen MacGregor – Acting Global Editor. In World Blog, Hans de Wit contends that growing divides between world-class and other universities are tempting many institutions in directions of corruption and unethical behaviour.
In Commentary, among other articles Angel Calderon welcomes the new Times Higher Education Latin America university rankings, but writes that there is room for improvement and some omissions. Cristina González and Liliana Pedraja argue that Hillary Clinton’s plans for free tuition for some students and Chile’s bid to roll back privatisation represent the reassertion of higher education as a public good.
Robert Coelen and Jiang Bo outline the breathtaking scale of higher education internationalisation in China, and its key lines of development. Tom P Abeles maintains that student unrest in the United States and South Africa reflects deep problems with their education systems that academics and students ought to tackle together, and Jenny J Lee describes how the hit-or-miss enactment of immigration policies by South Africa is wreaking havoc among international students.
In Features, Mary Beth Marklein finds former US senator Bob Kerrey prepared to resign as chair of the board of Fulbright University Vietnam, because of his tainted Vietnam war record, but wanting to “put this war behind us”. We interview executive director of the European Association for International Education Leonard Engel about issues confronting international education, ahead of the Global Conference on Internationalisation of Higher Education. Yojana Sharma looks at a trend among universities in India to shed colonial-style graduation robes and mortar boards for traditional Indian garments, and Nicola Jenvey reports on the scaling up by Canadian universities of programmes and services for indigenous students, a pathway to reconciliation. Read more...

Par Alexandre Roberge. L'oulipo est "l'ouvroir de la littérature potentielle". Créé en 1960, ce groupe de poètes continue d'exister et de créer. Certains membres en ont connu les premières heures, et de nouveaux artistes rejoignent l'équipe, dont certains n'étaient pas nés à la création du mouvement. Ils sont souvent poètes, mais parfois mathématiciens ou scientifiques. Voir l'article...

Par Alexandre Roberge. On dit que la poésie est un genre littéraire difficile, que l’étudier et le pratiquer n’est pas une mince affaire et qi'elle n’est pas accessible à tous. Alors, comment pourrait-on même imaginer l’utiliser dans un contexte d’apprentissage de la langue française. Voir l'article...

Par Alexandre Roberge. Comme toute forme d’écriture, la poésie se décline sous différentes expressions. Il y en a des classiques qui ont acquis leurs lettres de noblesse comme les alexandrins de Racine ou les vers mélancoliques d’un Émile Nelligan. Or, il y a aussi celle plus dynamique et moderne comme le slam. Voir l'article...

Par Denys Lamontagne. Il n’y a rien à craindre.  On ne se laisse pas charmer par la supposée poésie stupidement aléatoire des machines. Les bons poèmes de machines dépendent de la démarche poétique du programmeur. Voir l'article...