Louis Basco et Fabienne Cote, enseignants chercheurs (Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse) démontrent comment de nombreux étudiants sous-estiment leurs compétences ou ont du mal à les identifier quand l'insertion professionnelle réclame plusieurs...

By Patrick Stokes, The Conversation. And so now we officially know: philosophy is a waste. How can we be sure? Because Coalition spokesman for scrutiny of government waste Jamie Briggs has promised that a Tony Abbott government in Australia would get...

By Matt Reed. Apparently, this is turning into “begging for ideas” week. Please forgive the dreadful manners. I know juuuuuust enough about IT to be dangerous. I recently heard an IT idea that strikes me as obviously great, but experience has taught me...

By Amanda Ripley. BAMA Companies has been making pies and biscuits in Oklahoma since the 1920s. But the company is struggling to find Okies with the skills to fill even its most basic factory jobs. Such posts require workers to think critically, yet graduates...

By Kris Olds . Editors' n ote: the statement below was issued by participants at the end of the International Conference on Decolonising Our Universities conference at Universiti Sains Malaysia (June 27-29, 2011, Penang, Malaysia). We've posted it here...

Invited by UNESCO, IAU is undertaking a study about academic freedom in higher education institutions in all regions of the world. The study is related to the 1997 UNESCO Recommendation Concerning the Status of Higher Education Teaching Personnel. A first...

Higher Education Policy (HEP), June 2009, (Vol. 22, No. 2). Articles: Reconnecting the Research–Policy–Practice Nexus in Higher Education: 'Evidence-Based Policy' in Practice in National and International Contexts, William Locke Australian University...