By Jennifer Howard, Chronicle of Higher Education. The annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses featured a plenary session on three big ideas for publishers to think about, namely copyright, public intellectuals, and new business models. But the biggest idea explored during the conference, which ended last Saturday, was a simple one: advocacy. Read more...By Philip G Altbach. For almost half a century, several international governmental organisations consistently provided both a forum for discussion of global higher education issues and some capacity for policy analyses and supporting research. These organisations produced policy documents, published monographs, books and journals, sponsored international meetings, and from time to time financed and coordinated research projects on key international issues. Read more...Gender differences persist in educational attainment, employment rates and earnings. In OECD countries, younger women have higher attainment rates than younger men in upper secondary and tertiary education. But, despite a larger proportion of women than men having a tertiary education, women’s employment rates and wages are lower than those of similarly qualified men, the Education at a Glance 2013 report notes. Even if tertiary attainment rates in OECD countries have increased in recent years, less than 35% of both men and women attain tertiary education. Read more...Foreign students have a marked impact on estimated graduation rates, according to the compilers of the Education at a Glance report. By definition, the students are considered first-time graduates, regardless of their previous education in other countries. So an international student who enters and graduates from a second-degree programme will be considered a first-time graduate in the country of destination. Read more...Based on 2011 patterns of graduation, on average across OECD countries 39% of young people will graduate from tertiary-type A first-degree programmes, often called a bachelor degree, and 17% from tertiary-type A second-degree programmes, often called a masters, the Education at a Glance 2013 report states. For first-degree programmes, the graduation rate equals or exceeds 50% in Australia, Denmark, Iceland, New Zealand, Poland and the Russian Federation. But the proportion falls to 25% or less in Argentina, Belgium, Chile, China, Estonia, Greece, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey. Read more...By Katherine Forestier. The proliferation of journalism programmes around the world came under scathing attack at the Worldviews conference for unscrupulously recruiting too many students for the limited jobs available, and for being ossified in their curricula. The attack was made by Adrian Monck, former dean of City University of London’s journalism school and now managing director and head of communications and media for the World Economic Forum. Read more...By Moses Magadza. The newly established University of Namibia (UNAM) School of Medicine has embarked on an ambitious programme of inviting the private sector to take part in the construction of more hostels to accommodate its growing student population. The school opened its doors in 2010 with 54 trainee medical doctors. That number has since grown to 364 and includes pharmacy students, putting pressure on its hostel, which can currently house only 200. Read more...By Alex Bols. I wouldn’t try to predict the future of higher education, but I can see two likely features taking shape already. First is the increasing diversification of provision and provider. Second is internationalisation: as the world becomes more interconnected across borders, so the boundaries of higher education itself expand. In recent months I’ve been thinking a lot about internationalisation. In March I spoke at a Westminster Higher Education Forum on internationalisation of higher education and in April I was at a conference in Madrid on cross-border education. The conference in Madrid brought together several hundred experts in the Bologna process from across Europe and higher education reform experts from Tempus countries from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Western Balkans and the Mediterranean region. Read more...By Alex Bols. I wouldn’t try to predict the future of higher education, but I can see two likely features taking shape already. First is the increasing diversification of provision and provider. Second is internationalisation: as the world becomes more interconnected across borders, so the boundaries of higher education itself expand. In recent months I’ve been thinking a lot about internationalisation. In March I spoke at a Westminster Higher Education Forum on internationalisation of higher education and in April I was at a conference in Madrid on cross-border education. The conference in Madrid brought together several hundred experts in the Bologna process from across Europe and higher education reform experts from Tempus countries from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Western Balkans and the Mediterranean region. Read more...By Jane Marshall. The employment gap between young people who have a high level of education and those who abandon their studies earlier has widened during the economic recession, according to the latest Education at a Glance 2013 published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD. But while the value of education has risen during the crisis, investment in the sector is falling, says the report. Using more than 20 indicators, the report covers the national education systems from pre-primary school to doctoral level of the 34 OECD countries, plus G20 members Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia and South Africa. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
