It started as a Green Paper in November 2015, asking for the views of the Higher Education sector on the next steps for reform. Then in May 2016, the White Paper was published setting out decisions on market entry reform in England, changes to sector infrastructure and changes to the research funding landscape. The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) technical consultation has also been published, demonstrating a strong commitment to its delivery. More...
By Fabrizio Trifiro. Quality assurance is one of the key pillars of effective higher education delivery, which protects the student and university interest. Far from disappearing when operating at distance, the need for quality assurance can be even greater. Fabrizio Trifiro, Manager International at the QAA, outlines the ways that the QAA is working with its counterparts around the world to improve dialogue and cooperation to ensure that the global reputation of UK higher education, as well as its quality and standards, are upheld irrespective of where a student may be based. More...
The countries of the Middle East and North Africa region, or MENA, have fast-growing youth populations that continue to drive growing demand for higher education. The region has quadrupled the average level of schooling since 1960, halved illiteracy since 1980, and today is one of the world’s most important sending markets for international students. More...
By Jarrett Carter. As the liberal arts mission and higher education culture views college as a more than a manufacturing plant churning out work-ready robots, global industry and financial markets are expecting schools to do just that, in order to help society adapt to changes in technology and export. More...
By Mariel Reed. As the world’s biggest Internet market, China is an alluring prospect for U.S. tech firms, including edtech players. China-based edtech companies raked in more than $1 billion in investment in 2015, or 37 percent of global funding for the year. Asia has the world’s highest regional growth rate for e-learning, and an e-learning market projected to be worth $12.1 billion by 2018. More...
By Lidar Gravé-Lazi. In recent years a new age of globalization of higher education has Israel looking east, and forging unprecedented education collaborations with China. More...
Only 15 universities in Africa have been ranked among the top 800 in the world.
South African universities dominated the top rankings, taking six positions, with only Uganda’s Makerere University the only institution outside South Africa to make the top five in fourth place. The University of Ghana and Kenya-based University of Nairobi are ranked in seventh and eight places, respectively. More...
By Owen Skae. I WONDER what Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe thinks about late at night. Last month, while addressing Parliament’s debate on the performance-management budget, he conceded that SA’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth last year was the lowest in 17 years, with the exception of 2009. More...
By Times News Service. Education and Research Committee at the State Council hosted specialists on Tuesday to get inputs to add value to their ongoing study entitled, “Review of duplication in programme discipline in Higher Education.”
The meeting was led by Dr. Abdullah bin Mubarak Al Shanfri, the head of the Committee, in the presence of Committee members and Secretariat staff. More...
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