By Mary Beth Marklein. Academic fraud such as bribery, bogus universities and falsified research findings is hardly a new phenomenon but it seems to be escalating worldwide, prompting quality assurance professionals meeting last week in Washington, DC to grapple with how, if at all, they can help combat the problem. Read more...
By Mary Beth Marklein. A set of shared principles on how to define quality in higher education is gaining support among stakeholders in multiple countries, and a plan is in place to create cross-border opportunities for cooperation in matters of quality assurance and accreditation. Read more...
By Mary Beth Marklein. The explosion of demand worldwide for higher education and for evidence of its value to graduates, employers and the wider global community must be met head on by tertiary-level institutions, a top education official at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, told quality assurance professionals Thursday. Read more...
By Nicola Jenvey and Brendan O’Malley. It’s 2018 and Mario (18) isn’t sure which course units to take. He is struggling in his combined arts degree, he is behind on several assignments, and he is wondering if he has chosen the right mix of modules. Read more...
By Brendan O'Malley. The University of Helsinki is to cut its staff by nearly 1,000 by the end of 2017, making 570 terminations this spring, it confirmed in a public statement last week. Read more...
By Brendan O'Malley. Entrepreneurship and start-up activities in India have not only grown significantly in numbers and geographic spread, but also in terms of creating a dynamic support system to foster entrepreneurship, enhanced levels of innovation and employment creation, according to a new analysis. Read more...
By Yojana Sharma. Government scholarships for Malaysian students to study overseas have been slashed in a revised budget announced by Prime Minister Najib Razak last week, as the country suffers from a continued economic downturn, depreciating currency and a global drop in oil prices. Read more...
By Brendan O'Malley. U-Multirank results are based on “unverifiable data” and “imprecise definitions” and its indicators remain “weak proxies of quality for valid international comparison of institutions”, according to the Coimbra Group of European universities, or CG, in a stinging public criticism of the way the U-Multirank ranking system is being implemented. Read more...
By Brendan O'Malley. Australia has experienced the biggest jump in Indigenous higher education enrolments in nearly a decade and overall enrolment has reached a record high, according to new student data, with notable increases in enrolments of regional students and students from low socio-economic backgrounds. Read more...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. Cameroon’s ministries of secondary and higher education and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences launched a Mathematics Teacher Training Programme in January. The pilot initiative will train some 3,000 maths teachers through three higher education institutions. Read more...
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