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2 mars 2014

A new look at demographic transformation

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By Nico Cloete. A recent draft paper on equity indices for South Africa’s university system equated equity with transformation, and delinked equity from development and performance. It fell into the trap of a prevailing condition: using transformation as a code word for race. Further, the formula used produced a result in which several of the most equitable institutions were those being run by a government-appointed administrator. By this, the authors implied their promotion of high equity, yet also regarded the existence of dysfunctional institutions as a given in their proposed model for the South African university system. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

Differentiation: Africa lags (again) – Or does it?

By Johan Muller. Universities have never been as crucial to nation states as they are today. This is because, in order to compete in the global economy, nations need their university sectors to produce and apply knowledge, and to produce knowledgeable and well-skilled workers across the skill spectrum. This much is contemporary common sense. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

The rise of ‘educational sovereignty’

By Jason Lane and Kevin Kinser, The Chronicle of Higher Education. For the past several decades, many international branch campuses have operated without much oversight from their home countries and with a sense of diplomatic immunity in their host countries.
[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.]
Recently, however, some countries are following the lead of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Singapore, and have created structures to regulate foreign education providers within their borders, often giving them special status in the national education system. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

Does English have to be used in transnational HE?

By Stephen Wilkins. The drive for increased internationalisation in higher education has taken hold in many countries worldwide. However, there seems to be a widely held assumption that internationalisation means teaching in English as this will be the lingua franca needed by the global citizens of the future. Individuals, universities and governments have all subscribed to this view. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

The case for cutting PhD programmes

By William Patrick Leonard. The United States’ economic recovery has buoyed its employment market. While the nation’s unemployment rate is still relatively high, it is lower than the job market for doctorally-prepared faculty. That market has an oversupply of jobseekers. This supply-demand misalignment has drawn the attention of the Council of Graduate Schools. With foundation aid, it is embarking on a year-long feasibility study following the careers of PhD graduates from among its 500 member institutions. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

Liberal arts education makes a comeback

By Alya Mishra. There has been a spate of new universities in India championing the cause of liberal arts education. While most are in the private sector, they all share certain characteristics – they claim to provide a multidisciplinary approach, state-of-the-art infrastructure, international collaboration and student exchange, and freedom for academics to innovate. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

Geopolitical tensions versus boosting foreign student numbers

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. Japan’s universities are hoping the country’s reputation as a modern democracy and a high tech magnet in Asia can attract an increasing number of overseas students. But its plan to boost foreign student numbers, announced by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last month, could be jeopardised by rising political tension between Japan and its closest East Asian neighbours, which send the largest number of students to Japanese universities. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

China’s rapid rise in global science and engineering

By Wachira Kigotho. In the last 10 years China has made formidable progress in science and engineering fields and it is now the world’s third largest producer of peer-reviewed research articles after the European Union and United States, according to a major report published by the US National Science Foundation. According to Science and Engineering Indicators 2014, out of the world’s 827,705 articles published in 2011, researchers in the combined 28 European Union countries produced 254,482 articles (31%), the United States 212,394 (26%), China 89,894 (11%) and Japan 47,106 (6%). Read more...

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2 mars 2014

Private HE must up quality, not profits – President

By Francis Kokutse. Efforts to expand tertiary education through the participation of the private sector should not only be an opportunity for private institutions to make money – it should also lead to the provision of quality education, Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama has said. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

US university to open campus in Mexico, making history

By Peta Lee. Mexico’s higher education institutions serve more than 2.5 million students, which is about 30% of the university age population. According to ICEF Monitor, by 2020 the government hopes to expand the figure to 50%. Read more...

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