By Seb Murray. European business school EMLYON has partnered with East China Normal University to create a new business education hub in Shanghai — the latest example of western education providers edging into Chinese territory.
US and European business schools have been scrambling to launch joint ventures with top Chinese universities. Schools including IESE, MIT Sloan and Duke Fuqua are hoping to capitalize on China’s vast population and economic growth. More...
For the first time ECA has awarded a Certificate for Quality in Internationalisation to a university outside Europe. A panel of four experts chaired by Prof Hans de Wit and facilitated by the National Accreditation Council of Colombia (CNA) assessed La Salle University in Bogotá, Colombia. The procedure was part of ECA’s CeQuInt project. More...
By Rahul Choudaha. The confluence of cost and funding pressures, technology-enabled learning innovations and new paradigms of quality and teaching will continue to force higher education institutions to redefine their value. However, higher education institutions are unwilling to embrace new definitions of value and quality "as valid, even when they can see that customers increasingly prefer the new value offerings," notes a report from TIAA-CREF Institute. More...
By SI Staff. The Chinese higher education system has been rocked this week by accusations of underhand tactics employed by universities to recruit students. Peking University and Tsinghua University have been at the centre of attention as their methods used in student recruitment have come under scrutiny.
Commonly known for their fierce rivalry over top students, the two universities broke out in a war of words on their Weibo accounts, accusing one another of employing dirty tactics in their recruiting strategies, notably in the Sichuan Province. More...
Online registration is an important part of a NICHE project in Mali, that supports innovation of the management and administration of the whole higher education system in Mali. Digitalising the registration process will reduce costs and improve governance and planning.
This summer, the Malian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, mister Me Mountaga Tall, officially launched a new website for student enrollment. In an interview he explained the benefits of the new system.
Read the whole interview on MaliWeb.net (in French). More...
Small learning subsidies are available to NICHE project implementers who wish to organise an innovative activity to encourage mutual learning between NICHE projects or make outcomes more visible to other stakeholders and a broader audience. A new call has been published.
Because we think it is important to continue learning from and with each other within the NICHE Programme, we have decided to open another round of applications, with deadline 15 September 2015.
Go to the call and apply for the subsidy. More...
Despite all good intentions, gaps in access to higher education opportunities remain persistent. This issue is addressed in EAIE Forum magazine’s Spring 2015 edition.
The issue features an article by EP-Nuffic’s senior programme administrators Miriam Langeveld and Hélène Bernot Ullerö about the gender gap among academic staff at universities in the South.
More scholarships for women
To close the gap, the authors argue that EP-Nuffic capacity building projects should allocate 70 to 100% of their scholarships for postgraduate studies to women over a number of years. Some projects, however, allocate 50%, while most follow the (less ambitious) national policies of the partner countries, with targets of between 20 and 30%. At such a rate the gender gap will not be closed in the foreseeable future.
Innovative approach
The authors note that many projects struggle to do more than raising awareness, although there are some examples of innovative approaches.
One such example, described by Langeveld and Bernot Ullerö in their article, is the clever approach used by the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment at Gulu University, Northern Uganda, to attract more young women to agricultural studies.
By . Ten years after Tamazight—the language of the Amazigh, the country’s Berber population— began being taught in schools here, and four after it was constitutionally recognized as an official language, it remains unclear how it will be incorporated into education.
The recognition of Tamazight has been very meaningful, a redefinition of Moroccan identity, says Paul Silverstein, an anthropologist at Reed College who has studied the issue.
Tamazight is the standardized version of the Amazigh languages. An estimated 25 to 30 million speakers of Tamazight and other Berber dialects are spread throughout the North African countries, from the Atlantic Ocean to Egypt. More...
By Rim Hayat Chaif. Algerian leaders switched their official language from French to Arabic after the country’ war of independence in the early 1960s.
Forty years later, the government labeled Tamazight—the mother tongue of the Berbers— as a “national” language. The move fell short of putting Tamazight on par with Arabic but nonetheless recognized that 25 percent of Algerians speak the language. More...
By . In Saudi Arabia, the children of Saudi mothers and foreign fathers have long faced difficulties getting an education and have been charged extra fees, part of larger problem they have accessing government-supported services, including health care. The children of Saudi men, even if they were born abroad and have been living abroad, are automatically fully Saudi and receive all benefits. More...
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