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17 août 2014

Pushing the reset button on peer review

By Joanne Gaudet. As part of my doctoral programme in sociology, I investigate purported resistance to new scientific ideas by editorial readers at scientific and medical journals. The research is nestled within my wider interest in the sociology of ignorance. Read more...

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17 août 2014

The challenges facing higher education in Myanmar

By Christine Ennew. It is not often that countries have the opportunity to undertake major development and reform of their higher education sectors, but that’s the position currently facing Myanmar. And inevitably there is a diversity of interested parties, both domestically and internationally, with firmly held views about what and how much to do. As is so often the case, there are rarely ‘right’ answers. Read more...

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17 août 2014

Heated debate over the value of masters degrees

By Jan Petter Myklebust. In the past year there has been intense debate about masters degrees in Norway. The debate was launched by Professor Linda Lai at the BI Norwegian Business School, who introduced the concept of mastersyke – which in Norwegian means ‘masters degree illness’, with criticism of the degree supported by major surveys by Lai and Norwegian business. Read more...

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17 août 2014

New university reform law brews controversy

By María Elena Hurtado. Peru’s new university law, promulgated by President Ollanta Humala on 8 July, has become a political hot potato in this South American country. The president called it a “fundamental step” on the road to quality higher education. Read more...

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17 août 2014

African Virtual University to launch 29 e-learning centres

By Wagdy Sawahel. In an effort to provide African learners with greater access to higher education opportunities, the African Virtual University, in partnership with the African Development Bank, is launching 29 new open, distance and e-learning centres in 21 African countries. Read more...

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17 août 2014

Open science network calls for Global South case studies

By Karen MacGregor. The just launched Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network is calling for case studies that use “innovative and transformative open processes in generating knowledge and actions” aimed at tackling challenges in the Global South. The broad aim of OCSDNet is to see whether and how open and networked research could support development. Read more...

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17 août 2014

Lagos State University’s tuition fee fiasco

By Tunde Fatunde. At a Lagos State University graduation ceremony this month, the state’s Governor Babatunde Fashola – who is also the university visitor – ordered a sharp rise in tuition fees to be reversed. The announcement was unprecedented in the annals of higher education fee regimes in Nigeria and is bound to have far-reaching effects. Read more...

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17 août 2014

Trends in students online – Not such digital natives?

By Peta Lee. A study of trends in student digital use has confirmed the need for universities to deploy a range of tools in communicating with prospective students. Laura Bridgestock, author of the report just published by university rankings body QS, warned institutions not to “underestimate the importance of traditional communication methods even in the Web 3.0 era”. Read more...

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17 août 2014

Pilot global quality platform for ‘non-traditional’ HE

By Karen MacGregor. A global quality platform to review non-institutional education providers is to be piloted by America’s Council for Higher Education Accreditation and its International Quality Group. The platform is aimed at protecting students and is a response to the explosion of non-traditional provision – including MOOCs – and increasingly international higher education. Read more...

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17 août 2014

Thousands of foreign students in visa fraud racket

By Geoff Maslen. Tens of thousands of foreign students have become permanent residents in Australia as a likely result of widespread fraud and corruption within and outside the federal Immigration Department.
Documents provided to Fairfax Media journalists and an investigation by Monash University academics has revealed that thousands of foreigners have avoided federal regulations and been granted illegal permanent residency visas. Read more...

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