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28 février 2013

The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2013: coming soon

The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2013: coming soon
Ahead of their publication at 21.00 on Monday 4th March 2013 (and their formal launch at the British Council’s Going Global conference in Dubai), Times Higher Education rankings editor Phil Baty offers a sneak preview of the project.
The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings employ the world's largest invitation-only academic opinion survey to provide the definitive list of the top 100 most powerful global university brands. A spin-off of the annual World University Rankings, the reputation league table is based on nothing more than subjective judgement - but it is the considered expert judgement of senior, published academics - the people best placed to know the most about excellence in our universities.

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28 février 2013

Time and motion studies

By David Mould. Not only do medieval travellers' tales provide students with a compelling account of history rooted in personal experience, they also promote cross-cultural understanding in the present day, argues David Mould
What can the travels of pilgrims, soldiers and merchants in the Middle Ages teach students about the conflict-ridden and interconnected world in which they live today?
Plenty, according to historians such as Michele Clouse and Jeffrey Bowman. They are among a growing number of medieval and early modern historians who make extensive use of travellers' tales in their undergraduate courses - not only to engage students, but also to make them think about how cultures and belief systems collide.
For Clouse, who teaches at Ohio University, a large public institution, the tales complement the political and military chronology of her world history survey course, a breakneck semester-long dash from early humankind to the mid-18th century. "That's five continents and roughly 5,000 years of history in 15 weeks," she says, a little wearily. Read more...

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28 février 2013

Brick nations' strengths are unevenly distributed, says report

By Paul Jump. Research gains in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea are not necessarily in their strongest suits, finds Thomson Reuters.
Soaring research spending, output and innovation in several of the so-called Brick countries does not always capitalise on those nations' strongest areas of research, a report suggests.
The report, Building Bricks: Exploring the Global Research and Innovation Impact of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea, published last week by Thomson Reuters, details sharp rises in spending on research and development in the giant emerging economies.
China, for instance, has nearly tripled its research spending as a proportion of gross domestic product since 1996 even as its GDP was growing rapidly. Similarly, South Korea is currently investing a higher proportion of its GDP in R&D than is Germany. Read more...

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28 février 2013

Portugal's blurred binary line needs redrafting

By Jack Grove.EUA advises greater coordination for 'confused' system.
Improved coordination between Portugal's universities and polytechnics is needed to improve the country's higher education system, a study advises.
A report by the European University Association, titled Portuguese Higher Education: A View from the Outside, highlights the country's "confused" binary system of higher and vocational education providers as a key concern. Read more...

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28 février 2013

Please Professor, I want some more

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By Chris Parr. 'Grade grubbing' may be on increase as student entitlement grows in high-fees era. How often have you handed a freshly marked paper back to an expectant student only for their face to drop as they realise they have not been awarded the grade they expected? And how often has that student then pursued you to your office, teary-eyed, to plead with you to change the grade, or to add a few marks on the sly?
The process of "grade grubbing", whereby students seek to appeal the marks they have been given using unofficial channels, happens across the world. However, there has been little research into how widespread the practice is in the UK, prompting Steph Allen, a researcher studying for a doctorate at the University of Southampton's School of Education, to investigate. Read more...

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28 février 2013

Education about much more than employability

David Willetts's suggestion (People over 60 should go back to higher education, 21 February) identifies only one function of education: preparing people for entering or remaining in employment. The weaknesses of his proposal are exposed by Michele Hanson (New tricks, 23 February). But his reductionist proposal also ignores that at its best education is concerned with promoting an open and critical mind, contributing to personal, intellectual and cultural development and to the potential role we can play as citizens. For many years, open-entry education for people of all ages and backgrounds was an important provision of universities, made under various guises, namely extramural education, adult education, continuing education and lifelong learning. Courses attended by students of mixed social and formal educational backgrounds addressed two kinds of educational disadvantage: vertical disadvantage, which faces those who have not had the benefits of higher education; and horizontal disadvantage, where graduates lack knowledge of a particular field because of earlier specialisation. Read more...

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28 février 2013

Competition or collaboration: how will universities communicate value? – poll

By Claire Shaw. Universities and the sector must communicate their value to survive but will they achieve this by differentiating from their peers or working with them? Vote now in our HE Summit poll. It's that time again when we put a range of experts in the higher education sector in a room together to debate, discuss and question where the sector is heading, looking at what's worked well, what hasn't and highlight those issues that need addressing. And this year is no exception. Under the theme of 'Competition, collaboration and communicating value', we want to extend the debate out to our wider academic community, and ask what you think will impact most on the changing HE landscape: competition or collaboration between higher education institutions? Read more...

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28 février 2013

The real cost of falling migration numbers

By Atul Hatwal. A massive decline in people coming to the UK to study means British businesses will lose hundreds of millions a year. The latest migration figures released today herald another drop in the net numbers coming to this country – down from 247,000 to 163,000. It sounds like good news: effectively managed migration based on secure borders is in the interests of all concerned, migrant and UK citizen alike.But in the rush to applaud any cut in numbers, we run the risk of ignoring some very real economic consequences. Half of today's fall in migration came from the plummeting numbers of international students coming to Britain to study. In the previous year there were 239,000, but in the latest figures this had fallen to 197,000: a drop of 42,000. These students contribute a massive amount to the British economy through tuition fees and their day-to-day spending in this country. Read more...

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28 février 2013

Guardian’s Future of Higher Education Summit 2013 – as it happened

By Claire Shaw. Highlights from the day's event on the future of higher education in a changing landscape, at Senate House, London. Morning all and welcome to our live blog coverage from the Guardian's seventh annual Future of Higher Education Summit - and what an event we have lined up for you! From 9am - 5pm we will be live blogging the whole event, highlighting the main points of the day and drawing on live coverage from the Twittersphere and other social networks and blogs. Please do Tweet away (#HE2013) and use the comments section below to raise any questions and thoughts to feed into our coverage. Read more...

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28 février 2013

Minister urges banks to offer more loans to postgraduate students

By Rebecca Ratcliffe. Expanding student loans for postgraduate study is not a possibility, David Willetts tells Guardian conference. Banks should "step up to the plate" and offer more loans to postgraduate students, the universities minister has told a higher education summit in London.
Expanding student loans for postgraduate study was not a possibility, David Willetts told the Guardian's Future of Higher Education conference. He said professional and career development loans were the "classic device" for funding postgraduate study.
"There cannot be a universal loans system, and I don't want to find us inadvertently ending up with student number controls for postgrads as a consequence," Willetts said. Read more...

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