By Serhiy Kvit. Last summer, a new higher education law was finally passed. It was a true victory for the academic community, civil society and the revolution. Read more...By Mike Gow. China’s appetite for education is insatiable. The expansion of its domestic higher education system has seen the gross enrolment rate of school-leavers rise from 4% to 33% between 1998 and 2014. Read more...By Hans de Wit. Over the past few years a series of buzzwords – global citizenship, comprehensive internationalisation and world-class university – have taken over discussions about international higher education. Read more...By Geoff Maslen. The idea of universities collaborating with others around the world is no longer unusual but, increasingly, university faculties and schools are also forming alliances with their counterparts in other institutions to boost research output, improve graduation rates, attract students to potentially unpopular programmes and improve existing curricula. Read more...By Michael Gardner. A new committee has been created to advise the federal government on issues concerning its high-tech policies. The High-Tech Forum consists of experts from politics, science and society. Read more...By Geoff Maslen. An inept government and its even more inept education minister have left the nation’s vice-chancellors uncertain where their future funding will come from after the senate rejected a higher education reform bill for the second time. Read more...By Yojana Sharma. Many Asian countries have been setting ambitious goals to expand and improve their higher education sectors to respond to their growing aspirational middle class and as a result are on the way to catching up with and even overtaking the best higher education systems of the West. Read more...By Wagdy Sawahel. In a move aimed at easing Western sanctions and its economic isolation, along with promoting higher education development and regional cooperation, Iran is continuing to establish more branch campuses of its universities across the Arab states.The Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, or AUF, which began developing French-language digital campuses in 1990, is helping the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to develop UNCI, which was established in December 2014. Read more...By Maina Waruru. The East African Credit Accumulation and Transfer project undertaken by higher education authorities in the region’s five countries has entered a fifth phase, with experts agreeing on minimum standards for psychology, counselling, community development, developmental studies and social work programmes. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
