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20 mai 2013

Lean times continue for universities and students

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By John Gerritsen. For the second year running, New Zealand’s government has frozen subsidies for public tertiary institutions and found new ways to restrict spending on student loans and allowances. It has also threatened to arrest students seriously in default if they enter or leave the country. Vice-chancellors looked on the bright side of the budget delivered on Thursday, hailing the increases it included for research funding. But the Tertiary Education Union, which represents staff at universities, polytechnics and wananga – Maori tertiary institutions – says cutbacks are inevitable. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Reforms aim to attract more foreign PhD students

By Jane Marshall. One of the first acts of the socialist-led government when it came to power a year ago was to repeal an order by its predecessors that had tightened up residence and employment rules for non-European students and graduates in France.
PhD students in France
In recent times, France has slipped in the rankings of most popular countries for international students, from third place (it claimed) to fifth. But the nation remains, with Germany, one of the two most popular non-Anglophone countries for foreigners – and, unlike in many other host countries, fees in France are low: for a doctorate, only €380 (US$500) a year. About 70,000 PhD students are studying in France, of whom 41% are from abroad. Many of them traditionally stay after they have finished their studies – 24% of the 6.4 million PhD (or equivalent) graduates living in France are foreign. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

UNESCO to launch Learning Cities scheme

By Rebecca Warden. A scheme that could see cities around the world aspiring to the title of Learning Cities is to be launched by UNESCO in October. Speaking at the GUNI 6th International Conference on Higher Education held in Barcelona last week, Michael Osborne, professor of adult and lifelong learning at Glasgow University in the UK, said universities would have a major role to play in this.
“A Learning City is a city which has mobilised all its educational resources – from the formal and the non-formal side – to create an underlying infrastructure of coordinated learning,” Osborne said.
He is one of a group of experts advising the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning on the project. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Blue Card aims to lure the highly qualified

By Geoff Maslen. The European parliament in 2008 backed the adoption of a ‘Blue Card’ as an EU-wide work permit that would attract high-skilled non-EU citizens to work and live in any country within the European Union (EU), apart from Britain and Ireland. The Blue Card was coined by the Brussels-based think-tank Bruegel and inspired by the US Green Card, with a reference to the blue European flag with 12 golden stars. The EU parliament recommended safeguards to limit the brain drain from developing countries and advocated greater flexibility for its member states. But these suggestions were largely ignored and the legislation was subsequently passed in May 2009. In addition to condemnation from some non-European countries, notably countries in Africa where there were fears that more postgraduates would depart, not all 27 EU countries have implemented the Blue Card programme, which was supposed to be adopted before June 2011. Spain and Belgium initially refused to enact the law or give the rights promised to skilled migrants, while last year the European Commission warned Austria, Cyprus and Greece they faced consequences if they did not bring their laws into line with the EU legislation. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

The future of international doctoral mobility

By Rahul Choudaha. In ”The Disposable Academic”, The Economist argued that "doing a PhD” was often a waste of time. However, this pessimism does not reflect the experience of all students, as evidenced by increasing numbers of doctoral students from the global South heading to the advanced economies of the North in the past 20 years. Many source countries for doctoral students are still experiencing the growing pains of economic development and qualitative maturity; their higher education systems are not immune to these challenges. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Balancing excellence and access in doctoral education

By Thomas Jørgensen. A diverse, worldwide research system has many benefits but it must not result in work being concentrated in a few global hubs. A more globalised and more diversified research setup will provide more opportunities for research collaborations and will widen the pool of talent. A bigger and more culturally diverse set of researchers can only be a benefit to all. Research is becoming an ever more global activity. Scientists all over the world can share data, communicate and travel with unprecedented ease. At the same time, countries such as China, India, Brazil and South Africa are emerging as major investors in research, building capacity to match the traditional research centres in the European Union (EU), Japan and the United States. China now produces more academic papers than any country apart from the US. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Sharp rise in foreign PhD enrolments in Scandinavia

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Almost 17,000 foreign students are studying for PhDs in the five Nordic countries. These students comprise a significant proportion of the more than 70,000 foreigners enrolled in higher education, and their numbers have more than doubled since 2005. Foreign students accounted for 37% of newly enrolled doctoral candidates in Sweden in 2011 and 24% in Denmark, both representing steep rises over the previous decade. The proportion of foreigners awarded a doctorate in 2011 was 33% in Norway, 29% in Denmark, 22% in Sweden and 14% in Finland. Iceland awarded 51 doctoral degrees that year: 19 to foreigners or 38% of the total. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Half the nation’s PhD holders are from overseas

By Geoff Maslen. In the 1850s, Chinese immigrants referred to the Australian gold fields as Xin Jin Shan, the New Gold Mountain, whereas the Californian gold rush was in decline and had become known as Jiu Jin Shan, the Old Gold Mountain. In the 21st century, a new group of Chinese has come to Australia seeking the gold that is linked to obtaining a degree.
Although universities in many Western countries are enrolling increasing numbers of Chinese, few could match the proportionate flood into Australian higher education where the offspring of parents in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore now number more than 150,000. These Chinese students represent a startling 45% of the 333,000 from around the world who collectively comprise 27% of the 1.22 million students enrolled on Australian university campuses. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Mutual recognition key to Europe-Asia student mobility

By Yojana Sharma.Mutual recognition of degrees in Europe and Asia would help balance the flow of students between the two regions, a conference of education ministers from 38 European and Asian countries was told. Some 140 delegates – from 19 Asian and 27 European nations – were attending the fourth Asia-Europe education ministerial, known as ASEMME4, being held in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia from 12-14 May. They were joined by delegates from Australia, New Zealand and Russia. Delegates said the feasibility of an Asia-Europe Convention on mutual recognition of degrees was one of the key discussions at the conference. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Both benefit when Mexicans with PhDs migrate to the US

By Adolfo Albo and Juan Luis Ordaz Díaz. Migration from Mexico to the United States has been a historical process that has brought benefits to both countries. Mexican migration to the US is often thought to be a movement of people with low education and income levels, but emigration of highly qualified Mexicans is also significant. According to 2010 census data, almost 140,000 Mexicans held a doctorate degree that year while more than 21,000 Mexicans with PhDs were living in the US. Thus, the number of Mexican immigrants with doctorates in the US represented 15% of all those with doctorates in Mexico. Read more...

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