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9 novembre 2014

Funding and plans for new University Sine Saloum

By Maina Waruru. The government of Senegal has budgeted FCFA65 billion (US$123 million) to establish the new University Sine Saloum in Kaolack, which will specialise in agrosciences. Higher Education Minister Mary Teuw Niane has also announced that a total of FCFA302 billion will be spent on Senegal’s higher education in the next two years. Read more...
9 novembre 2014

Leadership course for students gives job market edge

By Maina Waruru. All students graduating from one of Kenya’s top universities may benefit from a free certificate course in leadership development, designed to give them a competitive edge in the workplace and job market – the first of its kind in the East African country. Read more...
9 novembre 2014

New president of CAMES outlines his plans

Professor Georges Moyen, the new president of CAMES – the francophone Council for African and Malagasy Higher Education – has spelt out his plans for the 19-member council.
Moyen is higher education minister of the Congo Republic, and a former medical faculty dean, then rector of Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville.
CAMES members are Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry, Madagascar (currently withdrawn), Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal and Togo. Read more...
9 novembre 2014

Universities of technology – Looking back, and forward

By Sharon Dell. “Looking back and going forward” proved to be an apt theme for the Seventh Annual International South African Technology Network – SATN – three-day conference held last month. The network’s members not only reflected on best practice and learning models emanating from their institutions since they were granted university of technology status 10 years ago, but also interrogated future opportunities to be pursued in teaching and learning. Read more...
9 novembre 2014

Quality Enhancement Project – Raising student success

By Sharon Dell. University teaching is one of the few professions in the world for which people need no qualifications, no experience and no knowledge. But that is now changing around the world, according to Professor Diane Grayson, director of institutional audits at South Africa’s Council on Higher Education, or CHE. Read more...
9 novembre 2014

TEQSA’s Ian Hawke – Challenges for higher education

By Sharon Dell. The higher education teaching and learning environment has never been more challenging for the global academic community, requiring a multifaceted response from lecturers and leaders, according to Ian Hawke, commissioner of the Australian Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency – TEQSA – an independent statutory authority established in 2011 to regulate and assure higher education quality. Read more...
9 novembre 2014

How to acclimatise Indian students abroad

By Maher Ghalayini. Decreasing government funding to colleges and universities in Canada has left many institutions seeking alternate sources of revenue to meet their community demands for quality higher education experiences. In 2012, the 265,000 international students studying in Canada each contributed approximately C$25,000 (US$22,000) to the economy. This amount is in addition to the tuition fees paid directly to institutions by the students. Read more...
9 novembre 2014

How can we preserve the world's boutique universities?

By Maurits van Rooijen. There is something enormously appealing in what I would call 'boutique universities' – small-scale institutions of higher learning. A place with maybe only a few hundred students.
It might not offer the range of disciplines, the variety of choice, the critical mass needed to reach excellence in research. But the satisfaction of the students, the experience of studying, easily compensates for that. Read more...
9 novembre 2014

Independent colleges – A hybrid response to massification

By Jian Liu. Mass higher education in China has mainly been achieved through differentiation: expansion in public non-elite local universities, development in newly restructured vocational colleges and the flourishing of the private sector, in which a new hybrid type of college – the private-run second-tier college affiliated with a public university, named duli xueyuan or independent college – is an important component. Read more...
9 novembre 2014

How to win citations and rise up the university rankings

By Richard Holmes. A large part of the academic world has either been congratulating itself on performing well in the latest Times Higher Education, or THE, World University Rankings, the data for which is provided by Thomson Reuters, or complaining that only large injections of public money will keep their universities from falling into the great pit of the unranked. Read more...
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