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7 juillet 2013

Media coverage of higher education – From propaganda to watchdog

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By Qiang Zha and Xiaoyang Wang. In many senses, the media is still state controlled in China and does not enjoy genuine freedom of speech. Yet the relationship between the media and higher education is multi-faceted, highlighting changing roles, focuses and approaches. Roughly, three stages can be discerned. In the first stage, from the 1950s through to the early 1980s, media coverage of higher education basically served the state propaganda agenda, showcasing government directives and opinions and how success was achieved by following government policy. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

OECD more engaged than ever with higher education

By Deborah Roseveare. The OECD agrees wholeheartedly that “higher education has never been more important to countries worldwide. Furthermore, academic institutions and systems are increasingly affected by global trends that require comparative analysis and international debate and can benefit from an analysis of ‘best practice’ worldwide.” But we are rather mystified by Professor Philip G Altbach’s commentary, published on 29 June, on the role of the OECD in higher education – which simply doesn’t reflect reality. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Report fails to tell the full education story

ByMakki Marseilles. Valuable without a doubt though they are, reports such as the OECD’s Education at a Glance have two major drawbacks. They are based on previous years' data, which are out of date (how could it be otherwise), and they are often too late to affect government decisions made under the weight of real events – political, economic, social and cultural. How valuable these reports are to educators, parents, and other educational practitioners as the report claims is a moot point, but experience teaches that politicians are notoriously bad students, often acting on the basis of ideology rather than rationalism. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Intervention versus the open market

By Grace Karram. In the Anglo university model, it is never quite clear how involved the government is allowed to be in university affairs. Although the strong emphasis on institutional autonomy stresses the power of universities to set programming priorities and policies, governments often play a regulating role that has serious implications for university operations. The recent provincial government intervention in Ontario’s teacher education programming is one example of government action that will dramatically change the sector. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Debate over international rankings and HE challenges

By Alya Mishra. Following the poor showing of Indian higher education institutions in three of the most quoted global rankings of universities, India has begun lobbying ranking agencies on how to improve country’s position in international league tables. Only three Indian institutions appeared in the global top 400 of the Times Higher Education, or THE, World University Rankings for 2012-13. The best was the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, at 226-250. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Entry and graduation rates still poor

By Michael Gardner. The OECD has praised Germany for its employment record during the economic crisis. But it still sees a need for the country to raise entry and graduation rates in higher education. Only a handful of countries managed to maintain or even reduce unemployment rates over the past few years, among them Austria, Switzerland and Turkey. In Germany, the share of young people who were neither employed nor participating in education or training programmes fell from 12% in 2008 to 11% in 2011, compared with the OECD average of around 16%. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

High spending, low fees – And lower salaries

ByJane Marshall. France scores well in its expenditure on higher education students, in the proportion of its population who are graduates and in the number of international students who choose to study there, according to the OECD’s Education at a Glance 2013. But the financial advantages a degree confers on employees are lower for French graduates than for their peers across the OECD, especially women. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

A preferred destination for international students

By Geoff Maslen. "The most significant feature of the tertiary education landscape in Australia is the large proportion of international students,” says the OECD report Education at a Glance 2013. The land down under is a key destination for students from around the world, hosting more than 6% of its foreign students.
“This figure places Australia as the third most popular destination after the US (16%) and the UK (13%). One in five of the students enrolled in tertiary education in Australia in 2011 were international students, the highest proportion among all OECD countries, against an OECD average of 7%,” the report states. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Rising fees saw enrolments also increase

By Geoff Maslen. One problem with the OECD Education at a Glance reports is that, because of the time required to collect, collate and release the data on which their commentaries are based, the data can be seriously out of date. This is especially the case if there are more recent government changes in funding, rising tuition fees, and changes to the amount of student support available, which impact on family decisions to enrol an offspring at university. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Higher education is a safety net

In Poland, the likelihood of having a job is greatly enhanced by being a university graduate, according to the OECD report on the country. The report says 85% of 25- to 64-year-olds with a tertiary education were employed in 2011, compared to 66% of those with an upper secondary qualification – one of the biggest differences among the countries surveyed. Read more...

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