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28 avril 2013

New $500,000 prize planned for teaching

By Nick Anderson. Entrepreneurs seeking to build an elite global university based on new ways of teaching online announced Monday the creation of a $500,000 prize to be awarded each year to an educator “whose innovations have led to extraordinary student learning experiences.” The prize, described as the largest of its kind for higher education, is part of the start-up of the for-profit Minerva Project, which aims to open an institution of higher education in fall 2015. Read more...

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28 avril 2013

Helping academics under threat for 80 years

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By David Zimmerman. Eighty years ago last month, the German government began dismissing university professors and staff for racial and political reasons. William Beveridge, director of the London School of Economics, decided to organise the British academic community to ‘temporarily’ assist the misplaced scholars. Beveridge later described what followed as “the spontaneous uprising of British universities against learning directed by Hitler and his imitators”. In May, with the backing of the Royal Society, the Academic Assistance Council (AAC) was formed. To Beveridge this uprising was not a revolution, but a reaction to a revolution, a way to preserve what was best in German university scholarship, culture and tradition until the German people came to their senses. Read more...

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28 avril 2013

Scandal-plagued higher education sector gets new minister

By María Elena Hurtado. Carolina Schmidt was appointed Chile’s new education minister last Monday and will face a formidable challenge despite her impressive credentials. On Thursday, student protests ended in violent clashes with police. Former minister Harald Beyer was recently impeached by the Senate and banned from public office for five years. Schmidt was the best-rated cabinet minister in her former job as head of the National Women’s Service, but the education portfolio is a political hot potato and there are contested draft bills to get through parliament. Read more...

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28 avril 2013

Conservatism, red tape thwart international education

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. It is bitterly ironic – Japan has the third largest economy in the world and is a leading exporter, but fails badly when it comes to international education.
“Japanese university education needs to be urgently vitalised to survive against stiff global competition,” said Dr Akito Okada, who teaches comparative and international education at the prestigious Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Universities “have stayed too long relatively unbothered by the global currents of education services seekers, due to the language barrier and traditional internal orientation of higher learning”. Read more...

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28 avril 2013

Agreement on controversial student loan scheme reform

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The major political parties in Denmark have signed a 10-point reform agreement aimed at strengthening the economy, job creation and competitiveness. When the reform is fully operational in 2020, student grants and loans spending will be reduced by DK2.2 billion (US$383 million). Students are angry, but rectors support the move. Public money saved on the student grants and loans system, called the SU, will be invested in other areas of higher education. The agreement (in Danish) is called “On the Reform of the SU-System and the Student Completion Framework”. Read more...

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28 avril 2013

Improved rankings boost university income

By Arnaud Chevalier and Xiaoxuan Jia. League tables ranking higher education institutions are popular, and over the past decade they have gained prominence, as shown by an increase in the number of league tables providers, nationally and internationally. League tables attempt to summarise the ‘quality’ of an institution or subject into a simple metric in order to help prospective students make informed choices about their educational investment. But what is the real influence of these league tables on the decisions of applicants? Read more...

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28 avril 2013

University autonomy prompts concern over student fees

By Suluck Lamubol. Thailand’s government is continuing to allow universities more autonomy, claiming that this will deliver administrative flexibility and freedom from state bureaucracy. But it faces opposition from students and academics concerned about fees and lack of accountability. Last month the Thai parliament approved the first readings of three bills that make the three main universities in Bangkok – Thammasat, Kasetsart and Suan Dusit Rajabhat – autonomous bodies, granting executive and administrative power to their councils instead of the universities being subject to the Ministry of Education, as they currently are.
The bills mean that the universities will no longer be guaranteed state funding subsidies per student, as financial responsibility will fall on the universities, but they will receive an annual block grant from the state budget. Among Thailand’s 172 universities, there are 15 universities that are already autonomous and 65 state universities. The rest are private institutions, community colleges or institutes. Read more...

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28 avril 2013

Survey shows failure to reach R&D target of 1% of GDP

By Nicola Jenvey. South Africa needs to escalate its expenditure on research and development and increase its international competitiveness in science and innovation, according to Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom. Disappointingly, the lofty goal of raising R&D spending to 1% of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2010 has not been achieved.
Rather, the National Survey of Research and Experimental Development 2009-2010, released earlier this month, showed that South Africa had invested some R21 billion (US$2.3 billion) in R&D over the period, translating into only 0.87% of GDP in 2009-10. Read more...

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28 avril 2013

Education reforms, including to degrees, reap rewards

By Katherine Forestier. Hong Kong’s new academic structure, now phased in across senior secondary and higher education, has resulted in marked achievements in extending education opportunities and demand for higher education, along with early indicators that it is better preparing students for further studies, a review report has revealed.
The city has taken the major step in moving from a three-year to a four-year undergraduate system. In September 2012, the first students under the new system enrolled in new, four-year programmes, alongside the last students embarking on three-year courses under the old model. The Progress Report on the New Academic Structure Review: The New Senior Secondary learning journey – Moving forward to excel, published on 19 April, shows that the changes at university level are part of fundamental reforms, systematically implemented since 2000 and affecting all levels of education in Hong Kong. Read more...

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28 avril 2013

Foreign universities take education to refugee camps

By Maina Waruru.Thousands of education-hungry refugees living in camps in northern Kenya are set to benefit from higher education in a groundbreaking initiative involving a non-profit organisation and a host of local and foreign universities.
Through the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees, or BHER, initiative at York University in Canada and Windle Trust Kenya, refugees will be moved from frittering away their days around camp and in video halls, into virtual classes where they will acquire knowledge for a better life. Read more...

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