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20 mai 2013

Uni funding cuts spark national outrage

Academics and students have vowed to campaign against university funding cuts of more than $2 billion, holding rallies around the country. The tertiary education union has vowed to launch a major campaign against university funding cuts in the lead-up to the federal election, as hundreds of students rallied in a national protest.
National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) general secretary Graham McCulloch said the academics' union would hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss action against $2.3 billion in cuts expected in Tuesday's budget. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Columbia University still has 'whites only' scholarship

Columbia University still offers a “whites only” tuition fellowship, which is restricted to “a person of the Caucasian race” and may be in violation of the US Constitution, a Manhattan Supreme Court wrote in papers filed Monday.
Facing massive condemnation upon the discovery of this discriminatory restriction, Columbia University has called for an end to the scholarship program that came out of a fund now worth about $800,000.
The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship, which was established in 1920, only considers Americans who are from Iowa, not studying law, “of the Caucasian race”, and returning to Iowa for at least two years upon graduation. A court order is required in order to change the conditions of the fellowship. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Mother Tongue: South African University To Make Zulu Language Compulsory For All Students

By Palash Ghosh. A prominent university in South Africa will make learning the Zulu language compulsory for all incoming students starting next year, the first time the country’s higher education sector has ever made such a move to impose the teaching of an indigenous African language. The University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban called the measure a “watershed” moment in its history, requiring students to be at least bilingual in order to obtain their degrees, regardless of their field of study. UKZN explained that the decision would encourage “social cohesion” and promote "nation-building and [bring] diverse languages together" in a country still divided by race and culture. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

State fails to sponsor university students

GOVERNMENT owes $62 million in unpaid fees to its State universities, polytechnic colleges and teacher’s colleges, Parliament heard yesterday.
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Director of Higher Education Martha Muguti disclosed that the Ministry of Finance had failed to meet its budgetary obligations to finance tertiary institutions since 2012, leaving them in financial dire straits.
Muguti made the disclosure when she appeared before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Science and Technology chaired by Insiza MP Siyabonga Ncube.
“Since January 2013, no single cent has been released for State universities and we find it difficult to deal with issues of accommodation, meals and the standard of life students now live is appalling,” she said. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Universities offering cash to students who find a job

Shanghai's universities are offering a variety of incentives such as subsidies for students willing to return to their hometowns to work amid a tough job market. This is meant to ensure a steady enrollment next year by pumping up the proportion of graduating students finding jobs.
Some schools say they will offer career training programs, including communication skills, to the students who failed to land a job.
Around 44 percent of 178,000 senior students at local universities and colleges had secured a job as of last week, 2 percentage points down from last year, the Shanghai Education Commission said yesterday. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

'Fly in, fly out' scholars fail to take off in China

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A new report shows that 'fly in, fly out' academics are a source of frustration for Chinese students taking UK degrees in their own country, writes Jack Grove for Times Higher Education. Full report on the Times Higher Education site.
Around 38,000 students in China were studying for qualifications taught by a total of 70 British higher education institutions last year, either through a branch campus, partnerships with Chinese universities or via distance learning. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

MOOCs – Past, present and future

By Hamish Macleod and Geoff Gould.The University of Edinburgh has a reputation for innovation and so being part of one of the first massive online open courses, or MOOCs, was a logical step for us. One of the most striking things about the university’s pilot MOOC was how it demonstrated the sheer appetite for online learning. Not really knowing what to expect, we were astonished with the level of enrolments, which exceeded 300,000. We had almost 90% of applicants coming from outside of the UK, so it is truly a worldwide phenomenon. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Students must think critically about their worldviews

By Abu Kamara. There is a ‘critical thinking’ deficit in higher education. The chief aim of the higher education curriculum seems to be more about helping students absorb facts and less about helping them develop as critical thinkers. Information is passed on to students without setting aside time for examining the contextual nature and cultural base of knowledge. Without the benefit of developing the habit of examining the contextual nature and cultural base of knowledge, students absorb information while still remaining blind to the impact of their worldviews on the way they conceive the world. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Economic recovery stifled by serious brain drain

By Makki Marseilles. Over the past two centuries large numbers of unskilled and semi-skilled Greeks have left the Aegean shores in search of a better future. Today’s emigrants are highly skilled professionals, with postgraduate qualifications, who are unable to function in the country’s depressing economic environment. But their leaving is also delaying – even preventing – Greece’s recovery. When Greece joined the European Union (EU) just over 30 years ago, the flow of immigration was gradually staunched and many people returned to take advantage of the increased economic opportunities that were opening at the time. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Turkish PhD students drawn to US and Germany

By Basak Bilecen. Nowadays university campuses are full of international students pursuing different programmes with different interests. Students from Turkey are no exception and are among the very highly mobile student populations. An article by The New York Times noted last month that although Britain sent more than 9,000 students to the United States last year – a record – and Germany sent about 9,300, both lagged behind Turkey which has been sending more than 10,000 students a year to the US since 2000. Read more...

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