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7 juillet 2013

Debate over international rankings and HE challenges

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By Alya Mishra. Following the poor showing of Indian higher education institutions in three of the most quoted global rankings of universities, India has begun lobbying ranking agencies on how to improve country’s position in international league tables. Only three Indian institutions appeared in the global top 400 of the Times Higher Education, or THE, World University Rankings for 2012-13. The best was the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, at 226-250. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Entry and graduation rates still poor

By Michael Gardner. The OECD has praised Germany for its employment record during the economic crisis. But it still sees a need for the country to raise entry and graduation rates in higher education. Only a handful of countries managed to maintain or even reduce unemployment rates over the past few years, among them Austria, Switzerland and Turkey. In Germany, the share of young people who were neither employed nor participating in education or training programmes fell from 12% in 2008 to 11% in 2011, compared with the OECD average of around 16%. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

High spending, low fees – And lower salaries

ByJane Marshall. France scores well in its expenditure on higher education students, in the proportion of its population who are graduates and in the number of international students who choose to study there, according to the OECD’s Education at a Glance 2013. But the financial advantages a degree confers on employees are lower for French graduates than for their peers across the OECD, especially women. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

A preferred destination for international students

By Geoff Maslen. "The most significant feature of the tertiary education landscape in Australia is the large proportion of international students,” says the OECD report Education at a Glance 2013. The land down under is a key destination for students from around the world, hosting more than 6% of its foreign students.
“This figure places Australia as the third most popular destination after the US (16%) and the UK (13%). One in five of the students enrolled in tertiary education in Australia in 2011 were international students, the highest proportion among all OECD countries, against an OECD average of 7%,” the report states. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Rising fees saw enrolments also increase

By Geoff Maslen. One problem with the OECD Education at a Glance reports is that, because of the time required to collect, collate and release the data on which their commentaries are based, the data can be seriously out of date. This is especially the case if there are more recent government changes in funding, rising tuition fees, and changes to the amount of student support available, which impact on family decisions to enrol an offspring at university. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Higher education is a safety net

In Poland, the likelihood of having a job is greatly enhanced by being a university graduate, according to the OECD report on the country. The report says 85% of 25- to 64-year-olds with a tertiary education were employed in 2011, compared to 66% of those with an upper secondary qualification – one of the biggest differences among the countries surveyed. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Foreign students attracted to a highly educated nation

The emphasis on education in Japan means it has a highly educated adult population, with 46% of 25- to 64-year-olds in 2011 having attained a higher education, says the OECD’s Education at a Glance 2013. This proportion is much larger than the OECD average of 32% and is the third highest among OECD countries, after Canada and Israel. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

International mobility of African students – Report

ByJane Marshall. How many African students go abroad to study? Where do they choose to go? What higher education projects are China and other non-African countries doing on the continent? What is the state of Africa’s intra-regional student mobility? The French government’s Campus France agency answers these and many other questions in its Note La Mobilité des Étudiants d’Afrique Sub-Saharienne et du Maghreb, which focuses on the international mobility of students from Sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb – with emphasis on France’s contacts and activities. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Science journalists – Critical, credible questioning?

ByIan Dobson. Finland recently hosted the World Science Journalists’ Conference. About 800 delegates from 77 countries converged on the University of Helsinki for this biennial event, which was hosted by the World Federation of Science Journalists and the Finnish Association of Science Editors and Journalists. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Higher education socially selective – Report

By Michael Gardner. A nationwide survey by the German Student Welfare Service, or DSW, has found that working-class children are still strongly underrepresented in higher education, with less than a quarter gaining access to university. Germany has repeatedly been criticised, in the Education at a Glance reports issued by the OECD for its failure to attract more students from less wealthy backgrounds to higher education. Read more...

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