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22 juillet 2013

Culture change needed to counter brain drain

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By Cong Cao. The threat of a ‘brain drain’ has long lingered over China's ambitions to transform its economy from one reliant on low-cost manufacturing to one powered by home-grown innovation. Alert to the danger, Beijing has acted swiftly to counter the departure of its scientific and entrepreneurial talent overseas. Back in 2008, the Chinese Communist Party turned headhunter when it launched its ‘Thousand Talents’ scheme to tempt the brightest and best Chinese back to their homeland after periods studying and working abroad. Read more...

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22 juillet 2013

PASET – A World Bank initiative for skills development

By Goolam Mohamedbhai. A workshop held in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa on 8-10 July 2013 brought together high-level representatives, in many cases led by a minister of education, from nine African countries and four emerging economic powers – China, Korea, India and Brazil. The workshop, which was convened and facilitated by the World Bank and hosted by the government of Ethiopia, was aimed at creating a Partnership in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology – PASET – between Sub-Saharan African countries and the emerging nations. Read more...

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22 juillet 2013

The rise of English in academe – A cautionary tale

By Rosemary Salomone. The rise of English as the global academic language is picking up legal steam in Europe. In late May, amid much controversy, the French National Assembly approved changes to the 1994 Toubon law. Those changes would ease restrictions on courses taught in English at French universities. The following day, a regional court in Italy went in the opposite direction, striking down plans at the elite Polytechnic University of Milan to offer all masters- and doctoral-level courses in English beginning with the 2014 academic year. Read more...

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22 juillet 2013

Richard Mawditt OBE on UNESCO, OECD commitment to HE

By Richard Mawditt. As one of your more mature readers I welcome Philip Altbach’s commentary of 30 June on the demise of UNESCO’s and OECD’s commitment to higher education policy matters and debate. His well-chosen words in firing carefully aimed bullets I sincerely hope will be a wake-up call to those two important agencies that have, as Philip says, “largely left the field of higher education, creating a considerable vacuum”. Read more...

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22 juillet 2013

Empire and higher education internationalisation

By Tamson Pietsch. At the start of the 21st century, we are acutely conscious that universities operate within an entangled world of international scholarly connection. Phrases such as ‘knowledge economy’, ‘internationalisation’ and ‘global competitiveness’ pepper the literature produced by universities and about them. Yet the global world of higher education is unequal, and some institutions and countries are better positioned in it than others. Such phrases can often serve to mask the social and institutional practices that help shape academic connections, and the uneven geographies that they entail. Read more...

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22 juillet 2013

India’s soft power moves in African higher education

By Maina Waruru. The fruits of a conference held in Delhi in 2008, hosted by the Indian government and attended by African heads of state, are beginning to ripen – perhaps more in the field of higher education than in any other area of cooperation. The Asian country is setting up a string of institutes and collaborations across Africa. The India-Africa Forum envisaged closer economic and cultural ties in a ‘soft power’ move seen by analysts as an effort by the emerging South Asian giant to make its mark alongside China. Read more...

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22 juillet 2013

Demand drives growth of open learning in East Africa

By Wachira Kigotho. The increasing demand for access to higher education in East African countries has opened opportunities for universities to develop robust distance education programmes, according to University of Nairobi Vice-chancellor Professor George Magoha. Launching several degree programmes that will be offered by the university’s College of Education and External Studies through distance and e-learning modes, Magoha expressed satisfaction that online open and distance learning processes are emerging as credible alternatives to traditional educational delivery techniques. Read more...

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22 juillet 2013

Do some have an overly idealistic view of internationalisation?

By Hans de Wit. Most international educators have a very positive feeling about the contribution their work will make to students’ personal and professional development, and to peace and mutual understanding in the world. They are driven by their enthusiasm and by the opportunities that European programmes such as Erasmus+ and other scholarship schemes offer. For them, international education is not only a job but an ideal. Read more...

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22 juillet 2013

Cross-border education under the spotlight

By Peta Lee. A new study from the European Commission has revealed that cross-border higher education affects a small but growing number of students. Countries receiving high levels of cross-border provision also have high levels of outgoing student mobility – suggesting that opportunities are created “where the kind or quantity of support of higher education domestically does not meet demand”. The study, Delivering Education across Borders in the European Union, found current patterns of cross-border higher education activity to be “quite scattered and fragmented”, with private institutions playing an important role, especially in receiving students. Read more...

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22 juillet 2013

Government lowers targets to slow HE student growth

By Hiep Pham. In a landmark decision that overrides previous massification policies, Vietnam is to slow the expansion of higher education between now and at least 2020, according to a new universities and colleges planning document signed by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan. The planning regulation called “Decision 37”, released last month under the framework of the higher education law that came into effect in January 2013, sets new targets: by 2020, Vietnam will have some 2.2 million students in higher education, 3% of them from overseas, and the number of students will represent 2.56% of the population. Read more...

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