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1 octobre 2018

Enriching value of HE connections across the diaspora

By Claudia Frittelli. Tertiary education enrolment in Sub-Saharan Africa nearly doubled from approximately 4.5 million in 2000 to 8.8 million in 2016 (according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics data). To meet the needs of new and expanding universities, several African governments, including Kenya and South Africa, have set targets or identified a need to increase the number of doctoral graduates by the thousands over the next decade in order to improve the quality and size of academic staff. More...

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1 octobre 2018

Promoting Malaysian culture through internationalisation

By Hazri Jamil, Wan Chang Da and Ooi Poh Ling. Malaysia used to be primarily a sending country, but it now has a strategic plan for taking in international students with the aim of becoming a hub for education and innovation, as captured in the government’s National Higher Education Strategic Plan Beyond 2020 (NHESP). More...

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1 octobre 2018

Towards global recognition of HE qualifications

By Roger Y Chao Jr and Stig Arne Skjerven. With the 2011 Tokyo Recognition Convention coming into force in February 2019 and having its inaugural recognition committee meeting this coming October in Seoul, the Asia-Pacific region is due for a re-energised effort to enhance access, mobility and quality in higher education. More...

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1 octobre 2018

Academic study quantifies sanctions impact for first time

By Tonderayi Mukeredzi. Zimbabwe lost about US$4.8 billion worth of revenue in the manufacturing sector in 2010 and US$2.1 billion in 2015 due to Western sanctions, according to the preliminary results of a government-funded academic study to probe their impact on the country. More...

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1 octobre 2018

Could Stephen Hawking have studied in Germany?

By Marijke Lass. The German National Association for Student Affairs (DSW) has published a survey on the situation of students with disabilities and chronic diseases, which finds that this group is confronted with a wide range of impediments at university. More...

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1 octobre 2018

eLearning – The challenges of implementation

By Wachira Kigotho. While most African governments are upbeat about e-learning opportunities, they often ignore the fact that information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure is expensive and out of reach of many schools and even universities, former World Bank managing director Dr Mamphela Ramphele told the eLearning Africa conference in Rwanda last week. More...

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1 octobre 2018

Kavanaugh-Ford hearing faced dilemmas familiar on campus

By Sarah Brown, The Chronicle of Higher Education. The extraordinary United States Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday involving Christine Blasey Ford and Brett M Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, was an all-day airing of distant memories, teenage parties, trauma, and the long-term effects of sexual assault. More...

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1 octobre 2018

Universities warned after pro-independence party ban

By Mimi Leung. Hong Kong’s universities are nervously looking at student reaction in the wake of the shock banning of the Hong Kong National Party (HKNP) – which espouses Hong Kong’s independence from China – last week, following a new warning from the city’s education authorities. More...

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1 octobre 2018

Top technology institutes recruit global staff jointly

By Shuriah Niazi. Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will pool their resources to hire professors from abroad – in a drive to bridge a severe shortage of faculty at the country’s top institutions. More...

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1 octobre 2018

Is political correctness eroding universities’ mission?

By Jan Petter Myklebust. A Swedish professor who raised concern that a growing culture of ‘political correctness’ imposed by universities is stifling open debate and academic freedom, particularly about free speech and gender studies, has caused a heated debate on social media. More...

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