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12 mai 2013

New ranking of 48 national HE systems, same results

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By Geoff Maslen. For the second year running, the network of 24 research-intensive universities called Universitas 21 has published a report on global rankings of national higher education systems rather than their universities.
A release accompanying the report claims that it is the first ranking of countries and territories that are best at providing higher education. In fact it is the second and the summary of its findings is virtually the same as last year as can be seen in University World News’ 2012 story. This includes the finding that the top 10 countries in rank order are the United States, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Norway, Australia, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

University secures key China partnership

Australia's top ‘China Ready’ university, the University of New South Wales (UNSW), has signed the latest in a series of strategic partnerships with China's National Academy of Education Administration, cementing the Sydney-based university as China's premier higher learning partner from Down Under, reports Xinhau. Speaking ahead of the signing ceremony last Tuesday, UNSW Deputy Vice-chancellor Professor Iain Martin told Xinhua that the new partnership was an important mechanism for both sides to learn from best practice. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

Helfen Hochschulrankings bei der Studienwahl?

Solange Hochschulrankings existieren, gibt es Kritik. Ein Ranking-Gegner und ein Ranking-Befürworter diskutieren über Sinn und Unsinn der Uni-Vergleiche. Reden wir nicht drum herum: Hochschulrankings sind umstritten. Solange die Uni-Vergleiche existieren, gibt es Kritik. Auch am Ranking des Centrums für Hochschulentwicklung (CHE), das auf ZEIT ONLINE veröffentlicht wird. Hochschulen fühlen sich unfair behandelt, Fachvereinigungen wie die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie oder die Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker monieren methodische Mängel. Einige Fachbereiche und manchmal auch ganze Hochschulen wie die Universität Hamburg lehnen das Ranking ab. Und mancher Studentenvertreter behauptet, Rankings würden einen Wettbewerb schüren, der in der Bildung nichts zu suchen hat. Mehr...

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12 mai 2013

Universities preparing students to succeed

By Bonnie M. Patterson. Gwyn Morgan, in an April 25 column (Universities doing little to solve Canada’s ‘jobs without skills’ problem), writes that Canada’s universities must do more to address what is being described as a looming skills shortage.
He proposes that universities identify the skills employers need, rip up the current program selections and replace them with those that would produce job-ready men and women with a magical, laserlike precision.
Let’s take a moment to consider some facts about the job market and what universities are indeed doing to prepare students to succeed. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

Students add up the numbers on university fees, financial aid

By Karen Seidman. Changes mean more students will be entitled to loans and bursaries. While Quebec university students recently won a hard-fought gain in the government’s financial-aid program that should boost the number of students entitled to loans and bursaries, they will also feel the pinch of a sharply reduced tax credit for next year. There’s a lot of give and take, as students can now assess what the government has planned for next year in terms of fees and student aid. Very few gains come without a price, so students may claim victory in their tuition battle, but they will take some hits as well. By changing the parameters of the parental contribution to $45,000 of family income from $28,000 over the next couple of years — something for which students have lobbied hard — more students should be able to benefit from greater access to loans and bursaries. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

New national data on aboriginals may highlight education shortfall

By Michael Woods. New data on Canada’s aboriginal people are likely to underscore the need to address education for indigenous youth, the country’s fastest-growing group, experts say. Wednesday morning, Statistics Canada will release the first batch of data from the 2011 National Household Survey, including new information about the country’s burgeoning aboriginal population.
The data will include total numbers of First Nations, Metis and Inuit, including breakdowns by area, age structure and the living arrangements of aboriginal children. It will also look at the languages spoken by aboriginal peoples. Statisticians caution there is no way of knowing how good or bad the information is from the National Household Survey. The voluntary nature of the survey, which replaced the once-mandatory long-form census, leaves gaps in information for some groups that tend not to respond to voluntary surveys – including aboriginals.
But experts believe the data should provide a fairly accurate broad-scale picture of Canada. Canada’s aboriginal population grew by 45 per cent between 1996 and 2006, nearly six times faster than the rate of increase in the non-aboriginal population, according to the 2006 census, the last time the comprehensive study was done. Almost half the aboriginal population consisted of children and youths aged 24 and under. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

Canada's shift to a nation of temporary workers

By Tavia Grant. It’s not just a perception: Temporary work really is growing at a faster pace than permanent positions. The number of temporary workers in Canada hit a record two million last year, according to Statistics Canada. That amounts to 13.6 per cent of the work force compared with 11.3 per cent in 1997, when such record-keeping began. And since the recession, temporary work has grown at more than triple the pace than permanent employment – up 14.2 per cent for temp work between 2009 and 2012, versus 3.8 per cent for permanent workers. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

A PhD does pay off – at 40

By Simona Chiose. If your odds of finding a job in the field in which you studied are about 50 per cent would you still go into that field? That’s the situation of many PhD students in Canada who know, from watching graduating peers compete for tenure-track or post-doctoral fellowships, that the demand for professors has slowed down much faster than the production of PhD graduates. This mismatch was at the heart of the report released last week by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario which called on students, that powerful constituency, to “insist” that universities keep track of and release graduation, attrition and job placement numbers. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

Canadian universities don't hire only Canadian professors. And that's OK

By Frances Wooley. Every year, Ontario universities graduate over 2,000 new PhDs, but generate perhaps half that number of new jobs for professors. Academic reform advocates Ian Clark, David Trick and Richard Van Loon have looked at these numbers, and concluded Ontario has a problem: “the increase in supply of PhDs has vastly outstripped the increase in demand for new full-time professors.” Yet Canadian universities are part of a global academic marketplace, exporting graduates to other countries, and importing freshly minted PhDs from elsewhere. In my own research, I have studied just one segment of that market: the demand and supply for new economics PhDs. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

Education as a cure for joblessness

ByLinda Nazareth. We hear it time and time again, and it is true: Get an education if you want to get a job. Still, does it follow that if more people get an education then there will be fewer people unemployed? “Maybe not” seems to be the conclusion, if you look at what is going on in the U.S. economy these days. There are actually two possible things that a more educated population can affect the labour market:
1) If the unemployment rate is too high because the jobs that are available require “educated” workers, then increasing the number of educated workers will force the unemployment rate down.
This scenario suggests the unemployment problem is due to a mismatch of workers and positions, and can be fixed by supporting training and education programs. In this case, then, policies to stimulate the economy – such as through quantitative easing, the drug of choice of the U.S. Federal Reserve – will not be particularly effective, since they deal with business cycle issues, not structural ones. Read more...

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