US college students are pursuing a broader range of international educational activities despite not receiving academic credit for them, according to a new report by the Institute of International Education, or IIE. Read more...
4 avril 2016
4 avril 2016
There is no substitute for good quality teaching
By Nita Temmerman. It is a privilege to be part of the education system, whether as a student, a teacher, a researcher or as a leader/manager. I have occupied all these roles as well as that of parent of a school and now university student. Read more...
4 avril 2016
Does engineering education breed terrorists?
By Dan Berrett, The Chronicle of Higher Education. In May 2010, Faisal Shahzad hoped to kill dozens of pedestrians when he parked his Nissan Pathfinder near Times Square, New York, loaded with improvised bombs. Read more...
4 avril 2016
Do national policies for internationalisation work?
By Robin Matross Helms and Laura E Rumbley. In response to the demands and opportunities of an ever-globalising world, governments in a wide range of countries are introducing policies and programmes to promote higher education internationalisation. Read more...
4 avril 2016
How to produce future-proof graduates using big data
By Dean Hristov. Big data has emerged as a prominent paradigm in the knowledge economy, as has predictive analytics, assisting practitioners and policy-makers with making data-driven decisions about the future. Read more...
4 avril 2016
Transnational education and human rights obligations
By Gearóid Ó Cuinn. In recent years Western universities have demonstrated an appetite for international expansion and the establishment of overseas branch campuses. Read more...
4 avril 2016
Inquiry proposes ‘non-elitist’ tenure track system
By Brendan O'Malley and Jan Petter Myklebust. A government inquiry has proposed the introduction of the tenure track position of assistant professor to address the lack of career structure in Swedish universities. Read more...
4 avril 2016
Turkish minister pressed on case of charged academics
By Brendan O'Malley. The New York-based Scholars at Risk, or SAR, Network has urged the Turkish Minister of National Education, Nabi Avci, to make public a private affirmation of Turkey’s commitment to academic freedom and called on him to support ending the investigation of 1,128 academics from 89 universities who signed a petition criticising military operations in the south-east of Turkey. Read more...
4 avril 2016
Tenure track lures elite researchers, can hinder women
By Jan Petter Myklebust. Tenure track develops elite recruitment but does not provide employment security for post-doctoral candidates in general and reduces the mobility of academic staff, according to a new report on the use of the tenure track system – a job classification indicating that an academic is in the running for a permanent position – in Denmark, China, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Singapore and the United States. Read more...
4 avril 2016
Oslo University opens centre on right-wing extremism
By Jan Petter Myklebust. The University of Oslo will be opening a Center for Extremism Research later this month after winning a national competition last autumn for a NOK50 million (US$6 million) government contract to establish a centre focusing on right-wing extremism. Read more...
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