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Twelve new FET colleges will be built across South Africa because of increasing enrolments at universities and colleges, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
“Student enrolments at universities have increased by 12 percent, while further education and training (FET) college enrolments have increased by 90 percent,” he said at the launch of a scholarship fund in Sandton.
“The National Development Plan envisages an increase in higher education enrolments from 17 percent in 2012 to 25 percent by 2030.”
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By Tsuyoshi Sato. Kyoto University is set to select a new president from outside the school’s faculty, doing away with nearly a century-old tradition of voting for an in-house candidate. The alma mater of several Nobel Prize winners is reportedly considering potential leaders from within Japan as well as overseas, with an emphasis on management skills to improve the institution’s international competitiveness. Current President Hiroshi Matsumoto will finish his six-year term in September. An official announcement about the selection process for his successor is expected this month. More...

By Mika Loga. Major investigations are underway into allegations of local private education institutions tricking foreign students into paying large sums of money by making false promises about opportunities to study in Fiji.
At least four Higher Education institutions are being investigated by the Immigration department. They had advertised and enrolled students mainly from Bangladesh, India and Nepal, through the internet. More...

By Heath Gilmore. The University of Sydney plans to spend $2.5 billion transforming its historic campus, as a building arms race between higher education providers reaches unprecedented levels.
The university has $1 billion of building works under way, and it has now lodged with the NSW government a more expansive, $1.5 billion master plan for the Darlington-Camperdown campus. Read more...

By Ben Wolfgang. The Obama administration is facing a torrent of criticism over its new “gainful employment” rule, a sweeping regulation designed to crack down on for-profit colleges, while protecting taxpayer money from being wasted. The for-profit sector, along with Republicans and some Democrats on Capitol Hill, have slammed the new proposal, arguing it will eliminate higher-education opportunities for many Americans at a time when well-trained workers are needed more than ever. Read more...