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23 mars 2014

International branch campuses get too much attention

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By Rahul Choudaha. International branch campuses receive a lot of attention for their motivations, successes and failures. In addition, some recent big-name endeavours like New York University Shanghai and Yale-NUS College in Singapore add to the perception that more institutions are building overseas campuses. In reality, branch campuses form only a small proportion of the internationalisation activities and models of transnational education engaged in by institutions. Read more...

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23 mars 2014

What is it like being a British student abroad?

By Nic Mitchell. George Leech (23) started a two-year masters degree in international and European studies at Linkoping University in Sweden 18 months ago. He is among the 1% of Brits who study abroad full-time - a tiny percentage compared to most European and international partners. He got his first taste of studying abroad as an undergraduate at Leicester University, when he went on an Erasmus exchange to France's Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne in Reims, as part of a history degree. Read more...

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23 mars 2014

Students challenge Britain to do more on mobility

By Nic Mitchell. European student leaders have challenged British higher education to come up with a broader and bolder strategy to encourage more outward student mobility. Just relying on UK students to see the potential benefit of increased employability is not enough, according to Rok Primozic, chair of the European Students' Union, or ESU. Read more...

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23 mars 2014

Call to boost academic ties with Latin America, Mexico

By Nic Mitchell. The United Kingdom is proving increasingly attractive to mobile students from Latin America and Mexico, a seminar hosted by the Westminster Higher Education Forum in London heard this month. Best known among a number of initiatives to encourage students to study abroad in the region is the Brazilian government's ambitious scholarship programme, Science without Borders. Read more...

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23 mars 2014

New Erasmus+ should help boost UK outward mobility

By Nic Mitchell. With countries like Germany and the United States launching ambitious campaigns to encourage more of their students to study abroad, the United Kingdom is redoubling its efforts to increase the tiny number of British students venturing to overseas universities or work placements. A new UK-wide strategy to get more students abroad was launched last year, as University World News reported last September, and on 11 March about 130 delegates from across UK higher education met with representatives from the European Commission and countries keen to help make young Brits more mobile. Read more...

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23 mars 2014

National or international quality standards - or both?

By Karen MacGregor. Whether a rapidly changing higher education world needs a single set of quality standards was a major topic of debate at a meeting of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation's International Quality Group, or CIQG, held in Washington DC. There was some consensus around developing global standards that are able to articulate with strong national quality systems. Read more...

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23 mars 2014

Government to boost HE policy role with think-tanks

By Yojana Sharma. China's Ministry of Education has released a new plan to boost the role of universities in advising government, including setting up special university-based centres and think-tanks to carry out research for ministries and contribute to policy-making. It will mean that university research departments, particularly in the social sciences, will not only carry out theoretical research but will also look at research application and gear some research more closely to government decision-making processes. Read more...

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23 mars 2014

New legislation to help foreign postgraduates stay on

By Jan Petter Myklebust. On 1 July this year, new legislation will come into force in Sweden that includes measures which will make it considerably easier for foreign doctoral candidates and students to stay and work in the country after graduating. An agreement between the outgoing Alliance government and the Swedish Green party will secure a majority vote for the proposal in the parliament. Read more...

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23 mars 2014

Germany calls for restraint in Swiss-EU relations

By Michael Gardner. German higher education leaders have called on European politicians to resume negotiations on the participation of Swiss academic and research institutions in the Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+ programmes of the European Union.
The Rectors' Conference - Hochschulrektorenkonferenz or HRK - representing the heads of Germany's higher education institutions, argues that given the close links between Swiss academics and those in EU countries, a reflective and pragmatic approach to the outcome of the recent Swiss referendum on immigration would be more appropriate than simply opting for boycott measures. Read more...

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23 mars 2014

New HE collaboration, exchanges for the US and Libya

By Wagdy Sawahel. The number of Libyan-funded graduate students in the United States studying in areas of critical need will be increased along with collaboration between higher education institutions in the two countries. This was announced at the first meeting of the US-Libya Higher Education Task Force held in Washington DC on 13 March. Read more...

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