By Peggy Berkowitz. Study offers wealth of data for education policy makers and stakeholders.
Canada came in close to average among the 22 countries that took part in a much-anticipated OECD study of adult skills in literacy, numeracy and computer literacy. Where Canada ranks above average in the overall scores, it is usually a little above average; and when it ranks below average, it is usually slightly below. More...
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The state of Israel’s higher education has steadily deteriorated over the past decades, according to a new study released by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel on Monday, ahead of the beginning of the academic year next week.
The study, which is part of the Taub Center’s forthcoming “State of the Nation Report 2013,” was conducted by Prof. Dan Ben-David as an update of his previous research on the subject in 2008, and revealed that Israel’s top universities have fewer senior faculty positions today than they did four decades ago. More...
By Ian Cobain and Lidia Kurasinska. Foreign Office and British Council support closer links to Karimov regime despite widespread and repeated allegations of mass shootings, torture and forced labour. A string of British universities has established links with higher education institutions in a country whose human rights record is widely condemned as one of the worst in the world, with the full support of the British government. One – the University of Westminster – has set up a campus in Uzbekistan and at least five others – Cambridge, Bath, the University of East Anglia, the London College of Fashion and London Metropolitan University – have established partnerships with colleges in the country. More...
By Hugo Horta. Academic inbreeding is a socially charged phrase, with its etymological origins in the biological sciences. It may be argued that the naming of the phenomenon is unfortunate; nonetheless it is how this institutional practice is recognised around the globe, although in some places it is also known as institutional inbreeding. It is perceived as damaging to academia. Read more...By Graeme Atherton. It is almost universally accepted that participation in higher education across the world will grow exponentially in the next 20 years. The OECD predicts that there will be more than 400 million students in tertiary education by 2030. What is less clear is who these students will be, what backgrounds they will come from and whether the historical patterns of inequality in higher education participation will be in any way reduced by this expansion or will worsen. Read more...By Vincenzo Raimo. The UK’s Department of Trade and Industry's Education UK Unit was recently established to support the delivery of the Industrial Strategy for Education of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, or BIS. It is in addition to the International Unit located within Universities UK, also in part funded by BIS, and the British Council’s own relatively new Transnational Education Service, which “aims to help institutions develop and effectively market international programmes". Read more...By Rahul Choudaha. Higher education institutions are increasingly expected to make tough, strategic choices to achieve their internationalisation goals in a cost-effective manner. For example, in the field of international student recruitment, institutions are often confronted with questions like: which countries and cities should we prioritise in terms of our recruitment efforts? Which segment of students should we recruit? Which recruitment channels should we use? By Peta Lee. An international study into higher education participation has revealed unequal representation across socio-economic groups in several countries. The review of six nations will inform an access and student success strategy being developed for England, and among other things recommends alternative entry requirements and bridging programmes, and more inclusive learning and teaching.By Jan Petter Myklebust. The appeal of Denmark as a destination for international students is steadily growing as collaboration and exchange increase between the country’s universities and higher education institutions abroad. Now the government is turning its attention to ‘growth countries’.By Wachira Kigotho. One in every nine people who are born in Africa and have a university degree is a migrant in one of the 34 member states of the OECD – the world’s most developed countries./https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
