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16 mars 2014

Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda strike HE harmonisation fee deal

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By Gilbert Nganga. Students from Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda will in future pay local fees in any of the three East African Community, or EAC, states. A new deal has moved the countries closer to harmonised higher education, which has been elusive for the past five years due to difficulties in agreeing key parameters like fees and credit transfer. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

The executive university

By Arthur O'Neill. 'This is a secular age,' replies [Professor] Godwin. 'You cannot turn back the clock. You cannot condemn an institution for moving with the times.'
'By an institution you mean the university?'
'Yes, universities, but specifically faculties of humanities, which remain the core of any university.'
The humanities the core of the university. She [Elizabeth Costello] may be an outsider, but if she were asked to name the core of the university today, its core discipline, she would say it was moneymaking. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

The promise of open, distance and e-learning

By Paul Prinsloo. Considering the promise of open, distance and e-learning - ODeL - in Africa, we need to take cognisance of the high expectations that post-secondary school education will solve many current societal crises, such as unemployment and gross inequalities.
Realising the potential of ODeL in Africa is, however, intimately connected to trends in the international higher education landscape and the causal power of social, political, economic, technological, environmental as well as policy (legal) structures. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

PhD reform requires cultural understanding

By Anne J MacLachlan. Despite different forms of organisation and development, doctoral education in Germany and the United States share a goal of socialising students into an academic discipline, and training them to advance knowledge through research conducted in the analytic form of that discipline and to master its specific concepts and language.
In short, they teach students to acquire the characteristics of a particular 'academic tribe' - to simplify a complex process analysed by Tony Becher and Paul Trowler in their 2001 book Academic Tribes and Territories. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Questioning the student mobility imperative Bernd Wachter

By Simon Marginson. I am not going to make myself popular with this article, which will deal with some myths in the debate about international student mobility. In order not to be misunderstood, I wish to state at the outset that I have been happily mobile almost all of my life and that I am a supporter of international academic mobility, even though a slightly sceptical one. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Students are trapped by the politics of anti-migration

By Simon Marginson. In the United Kingdom and much of Europe we are in an anti-migration phase. International students, who provide half of the migration count, are currently trapped by the politics of anti-migration. This diminishes the value of their experience and their education. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

University World News blogger Serhiy Kvit appointed minister of education and science in Ukraine

University World News blogger Serhiy Kvit has been appointed minister of education and science in Ukraine. In his last blog, the professor and rector describes the role of students and academics in the momentous changes of the past month. Education expert Yegor Stadny will be our new Ukrainian blogger. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Cape Verde joins the African Virtual University

By Reuben Kyama. Cape Verde has become the latest country to join the African Virtual University, a pan-African intergovernmental organisation aimed at increasing access to quality higher education through innovative use of information and communication technologies.
The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of the wind-pummelled West African archipelago signed the charter of the African Virtual University, or AVU, last month, becoming its 19th member state. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Denmark's research capacity scheme enters second phase

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Seven universities in Africa and South Asia will share DKK100 million (US$18.6 million) over three years in the second phase of a Danish-funded programme to build research capacity in the global South.
The programme under the Danish International Development Agency, or Danida - which seeks to strengthen research policies, PhD research, development of research concepts and improve libraries and publication management systems - kicked off in January this year. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Mobility partnership with Europe unveiled

By Wagdy Sawahel. Tunisia and the European Union have formally established a mobility partnership that, among other things, will help facilitate mutual recognition of qualifications, enhance the exchange of higher education information and experience, and foster the flow of researchers and students. There are 10 European countries involved in the partnership.
The 3 March declaration of the Tunisia-EU mobility partnership is the second of its kind with a country bordering the Mediterranean, following the signing of the first partnership with Morocco in June 2013. Read more...

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