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2 juin 2013

The Americans are not coming. Should Canada's universities care?

By James Bradshaw. From Alan Wildeman’s office window, the Ambassador Bridge to the United States is “about a driver and two 3-woods away” – a few hundred yards, in golf parlance. So it is a source of frustration to the University of Windsor president that of 2,000 international students his university hosted this year from all corners of the world, only 82 came from south of the border. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

France's Message to Science: Help Us Fix the Economy

By Elisabeth Pain. France's government hopes that science can help shore up the country's lackluster economy. On Tuesday, the National Assembly approved a new law that aims to simplify the national landscape for research and higher education and make it more efficient, better able to address societal and economic challenges, and more competitive at the European level. The bill, which comes hand in hand with a new strategic plan for France's research priorities, also gives the government a greater role in coordinating research. The bill and the road map have been sharply criticized by various groups of researchers and university professors. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

Admission of women students soars to more than 100,000

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By Gilbert Nganga. The number of women students entering Kenyan universities rose at the fastest rate ever – by more than 30% – last year, and for the first time there are more than 100,000 female students in higher education, new government data show. Kenya’s recently released Economic Survey 2013, a document that tracks annual economic data across all sectors, showed that there were some 105,115 female students enrolled in universities in 2012, up from 80,560 the year before. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

Doctoral mobility – Push-pull factors for East-West

By Jess Guth. “Neither the level of the necessary scientific equipment nor the available library information makes it possible to carry out any meaningful research, if one relies on national sources in Bulgaria,” a professor who is a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences explained in a series of studies we conducted as part of the Mobility and Excellence in the European Research Area – MOBEX2 – project funded by the ESRC, or Economic and Social Research Council, and the Anglo-German Foundation. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

PhDs abroad – The case of Arabs from Israel

By Kussai Haj Yehia. The United States is the main country of destination for Arab academics from Israel who intend to obtain a PhD abroad, because the US grants Fulbright scholarships at the doctoral level in any field to students with academic excellence who are engaged in social activities and community service, and who have leadership abilities. The Fulbright foundation has awarded scholarships and research grants to more than 1,300 Israeli academics, including Arab academics, since the establishment of the fund. Since 2007, the fund has allocated grants to eight to 10 Arab students from Israel each year intending to obtain higher degrees, especially PhDs. Israel has eight universities that include about 5,800 senior lecturers and 2,334 lecturers with no tenure. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

First student loan scheme bill passes second reading

ByTunde Fatunde. A bill to create a student loan scheme – called a Higher Education Bank – has passed a second reading in the national assembly and is expected to be approved soon. As expected, there was jubilation among students over the scheme, which is unprecedented in Nigerian higher education. Student beneficiaries would receive sufficient funding to pay for their higher education and would begin repayment two years after finishing their studies. However, some lecturers called for caution regarding the loan scheme’s implementation. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

MOOCs firm strikes deals with 10 public universities

BySteve Kolowich, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Coursera, the Silicon Valley-based provider of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, last Thursday announced a series of deals with state universities that would place the young company squarely in the middle of the current upheaval in public higher education. This is an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, America’s leading higher education publication. It is presented here under an agreement with University World News. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

New initiatives to reform higher education announced

By Wagdy Sawahel. Libya has launched several initiatives to reform universities, in an effort to achieve global academic standards and match higher education graduates with local job market demands. The initiatives were announced by Bashir Eshteiwi, Libya's deputy minister of higher education and scientific research, at the Arab Education Summit hosted by ArabBrains, a networking organisation that connects innovative education, public and private sector leaders. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

AAU pushes to expand activity and geographical base

By Ard Jongsma. The 13th General Conference of the Association of African Universities, or AAU, held in Libreville, Gabon last week, staked out the AAU’s path for the next four years. There is the promise of a 25% increase in project funding, a new composition of the board and presidencies and – perhaps most significantly – a strong push to strengthen the position of the association in Francophone Africa. Starting with the latter, the trend was already set last year, when Etienne Ehile of Côte d'Ivoire was installed as the association’s new secretary general after Olugbemiro Jegede. The choice of Gabon as the venue for the 13th assembly underlined these aspirations too. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

Tackling a serious shortage of lecturers with PhDs

By Hiep Pham. Vietnam is facing a shortage of highly qualified academics in its universities and colleges as a result of the over-expansion of higher education in the past two decades. In 2012, only 11% of the country’s 84,109 lecturers held doctorate degrees. And the proportion is getting worse; in 2000, nearly 15% of 30,309 academics had PhDs. The ratio of PhD-holding lecturers per student is even more alarming – over the 12 years the ratio has fallen from 0.5% (one highly qualified lecturer per 200 students) in 2000 to 0.415% in 2012. Read more...

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