Formation Continue du Supérieur

4 mai 2014

Young universities show fastest routes to world-class status

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By Yojana Sharma. Universities searching for the shortest possible route to becoming world-class are looking at the best 'young' universities – those established less than 50 years ago – for lessons on how to 'leapfrog' to the top. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

Interesting times ahead as higher education goes global

By Karen MacGregor. The sheer scale and mobility of higher education, its continued growth as student populations soar in emerging nations, the world's transforming demography and unpredictability, and a sector grappling with change in the face of an avalanche of innovation while struggling to prove its worth, were highlighted at the “Going Global” conference in Miami last week – suggesting interesting times ahead for higher education. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

Countries not monitoring study abroad scholarships

By Peta Lee. There are some 183 nationally funded scholarship programmes for outward student mobility around the globe, with 52% of the world's countries – 102 in all – offering at least one. Yet measuring the impacts and effectiveness of scholarship schemes is rare, according to a study of 11 countries released at the “Going Global” conference in Miami last week. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

Building on Brazilian scientific mobility momentum

By Leandro R Tessler. Something happened in 2011 that made Brazil a priority for student exchange for American higher education institutions. Suddenly there was an unprecedented interest in cooperating with Brazil. Some Brazilian institutions started to receive up to a dozen visits from American counterparts per week. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

Internationalisation under threat from anti-immigration populism

By Simon Marginson. The United Kingdom's higher education system is in an exceptionally strong global position. For decades the nation has been second only to the United States as an attractor of students and other academic talent. Most of the world's 'wannabee' education hubs would settle for a quarter of the existing drawing power of the UK. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

Reading between the lines – Global internationalisation survey

By Hans de Wit and Jos Beelen. In April the International Association of Universities, or IAU, published its 4th Global Survey on Internationalization of Higher Education, the fourth since 2003. This overview of trends and issues in the internationalisation of higher education is published every three years and provides valuable insights for scholars and practitioners in international higher education about the priorities, drivers, obstacles, benefits and funding of internationalisation. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

A unique offer from Cambridge and Oxford

By Geoff Maslen. More than 11,000 foreign students from outside Europe applied last year to undertake postgraduate study at Oxford University but only 3,500 received offers of a place. A similar number sent applications to Cambridge, Britain's other top university, and most also missed out. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

Legal training uncertainty as university scraps degree

By Nicola Jenvey. A recent decision by a top South African university to discontinue the bachelor of laws degree in favour of a postgraduate qualification has raised mixed reactions. One academic called on other universities to follow suit as the current system produced “legal barbarians” but the Black Lawyers Association accused the university of “acting inappropriately”. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

Knowledge and Innovation Communities network expands

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Europe's Knowledge and Innovation Communities, or KICs, have a potential budget of EUR1 billion (US$1.38 billion) each and the huge collaborative research and postgraduate training networks initiative is well under way. Three KICs have been established and a call for proposals recently went out for another two, with more planned in the coming years. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

Women's rising education not matched by HE leadership

By Yojana Sharma. Rising incomes and a more youthful population in many countries in South Asia have led to a huge increase in women students. Yet this has not been matched by growth in the number of women in leadership roles at universities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Read more...

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