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6 juillet 2014

University autonomy eroded in four-year degree battle

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By Meeta Sengupta. Admissions at Delhi University have re-started. The old three-year degree programme has been reinstated, marking the end of the stand-off between the University Grants Commission, or UGC, and the university’s vice-chancellor over the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme that was started last year. Read more...

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6 juillet 2014

A door to higher education quality assurance’s future

By Peter Williams. It is not often that an opportunity arises to see whether external quality assurance in higher education actually works.
Last summer the newly formed Irish organisation, Quality and Qualifications Ireland, or QQI, asked me to chair a group to examine the higher education institutional review schemes that had been used by its three predecessor, and now defunct, bodies – the Irish Universities Quality Board, IUQB, the Higher Education and Training Awards Council, HETAC, and the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland, NQAI. Read more...

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6 juillet 2014

Climbing the global university rankings Oleg Alekseev

By Rahul Choudaha and Eduardo Contreras. The governmental initiative dedicated to enhancing Russian universities’ global competitiveness, also known as the 5/100 initiative, aims to enable five Russian universities to enter the top 100 world university rankings by 2020.
The project was announced by presidential decree on 7 May 2012.
A special Council on Global Competitiveness Enhancement of Russian Universities was established. It consists of 12 members, six representing Russia and the other six representing the international academic community. Read more...

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6 juillet 2014

HE internationalisation – What gets measured, gets funded

By Rahul Choudaha and Eduardo Contreras. The fourth annual Global Survey on the Internationalization of Higher Education by the International Association of Universities is revealing. First, the survey shows that there is growing interest among higher education institutions in the topic. The number of institutions that participated in this recent survey – 1,336 from 131 different countries – doubled the number of respondents from the previous study in 2010. Read more...

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6 juillet 2014

Scientists face access backlash over Facebook research

By Paul Voosen, The Chronicle of Higher Education. It was a remarkable result. By manipulating the news feeds of thousands of Facebook users, without their knowing consent, researchers working with the goliath of social media found that they could spur a significant, if small, effect on people’s behaviour in the world beyond bits. Read more...

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6 juillet 2014

Spurious row over university redundancies

By Makki Marseilles. Four top officials – the education secretary and the administrative reform minister, the deputy prime minister and the prime minister himself – are arguing over how many administrative staff Greece’s universities need in order to operate properly and efficiently. Are universities themselves not in the best position to decide how many staff they need? Emphatically no, says the government. Read more...

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6 juillet 2014

Research and innovation system could do better – OECD

By Jane Marshall. France’s research and innovation programme to 2020 is taking the right general approach but is too complex, and universities should play a greater role alongside the powerful national research organisations. These are among the findings of a review of French innovation policies by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Following publication at the end of June of the 294-page OECD report, Examens de l’OCDE des politiques d’innovation: France, French ministers have set up a national commission to evaluate innovation policies. Read more...

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6 juillet 2014

More university-business collaboration needed – Study

By Peta Lee. The business sector should be more involved in designing higher education curricula and universities should work more closely with industry partners to promote entrepreneurship, mobility between business and academia and lifelong learning. There should also be more assessment and better monitoring of university-business collaborations and programmes. Read more...

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6 juillet 2014

Regulator admits political pressure over Delhi degrees

By Yojana Sharma. An official of the University Grants Commission, India’s higher education regulatory and funding body, has openly admitted that political pressure from the country’s newly elected government was behind the move to scrap four-year undergraduate degrees at Delhi University, which attracts the country’s brightest students. Read more...

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6 juillet 2014

Good access to poor courses won’t create real learning

By Patrício V Langa and Gerald Wangenge-Ouma. In the 1980s education economist George Pascharopoulos claimed that the average dollar invested in primary education in Africa returned twice as much as the dollar invested in higher education. The World Bank believed him, and ever since, higher education on the continent has struggled to position itself as an important investment priority and as a key driver for development. Read more...

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