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13 février 2018

A shift towards good quality higher education for all

By Roger Chao Jr. At a time when there are significant challenges to achieving the education-related Sustainable Development Goals, the Philippine higher education sector may serve as an example in terms of progression towards quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for alls. More...
13 février 2018

Can international scholarships lead to social change?

By Robin Marsh. International scholarships that enable promising young people from developing countries to study at top-rated universities have a long history going back to the early 20th century. They gained momentum after World War II, with the needs of newly independent states to increase their nation-building capacities across all sectors and disciplines. More...
13 février 2018

US academics not exempted from travel ban to Pyongyang

By Yojana Sharma. No special exemptions have been given so far for academics who are United States citizens to teach at the private Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), which has been hard hit by the US ban on travel to North Korea in the wake of the death of US student Otto Warmbier last year. More...
13 février 2018

Designing pedagogies for the digital age

By Craig Blewett. It’s a rather impressive, if controversial, resume for a teenager: blamed for the election of Donald Trump, increased divorce rates, rising syphilis cases, and the advent of fake newsMore...
13 février 2018

Graduate employability – Whose responsibility?

By Wondwosen Tamrat. The Ethiopian government, through its ministry of education, is planning to improve the employment of university graduates over the next three years with specific targets to be met by individual institutions. More...
13 février 2018

New ‘political technocrat’ minister faces stiff challenges

By Wagdy Sawahel. Morocco’s new higher education minister, a former university president, joins a significant number of what are known as ‘political technocrats’ taking the helm in higher education ministries in North Africa. No matter how he is described, he faces a range of tough challenges in the sector. More...
13 février 2018

Slow start for private higher education providers

By Laeed Zaghlami. Private education for higher schools and universities in Algeria is slowly getting off the ground following a gradual shift in policy from the country’s higher education authority. More...
13 février 2018

Calls for quality over quantity in higher education

By Ramadhan Rajab. Senior figures in Somalia’s education and employment sector are calling on the country’s increasingly influential government to bring down the numbers of tertiary colleges and universities to better match the number of competent pupils emerging from the country’s secondary schools, and to ensure better quality graduates. More...
13 février 2018

Working towards a shared vision of higher education

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Fears that harmonisation of higher education will involve a rigid standardisation of systems and strip them of autonomy must be addressed if greater progress is to be made towards a common quality assurance framework, according to Goski Alabi, professor of quality management and leadership at the University of Professional Studies in Accra, Ghana. More...
13 février 2018

Corruption among factors affecting HE quality process

By Francis Kokutse. The Association of African Universities (AAU) has identified corruption and threats to officials of accreditation bodies as some of the issues affecting the quality of some higher education institutions across the continent, its Secretary General, Etienne Ehile, has told University World NewsMore...
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