Mercredi 17 septembre, à l'Assemblée nationale, Geneviève Fioraso, secrétaire d'Etat chargée de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche a annoncé la réduction du nombre d'établissements en déficit dans l'enseignement supérieur français.
Le déficit des établissements d'enseignement supérieur est une question qui a beaucoup animé les débats de l'année scolaire 2013-2014. Mercredi 17 septembre, à l'Assemblée nationale, Gilda Hobert (RRDP), députée du Rhône, interrogeait Geneviève Fioraso, secrétaire d'Etat chargée de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, sur le sujet. La réponse de l'intéressée est rassurante pour l'enseignement supérieur français. Voir l'article...

Pour les journées européennes du patrimoine, le ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche va ouvrir ses portes au public le week-end du 20 et 21 septembre.
Chaque année, les journées européennes du patrimoine permettent aux français de découvrir un pan de leur Histoire. Pour cette 31e édition, le site Descartes, situé au cœur de la montagne Sainte-Geneviève à Paris, ouvre ses portes. Un lieu qui accueille actuellement le ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche. Voir l'article...

A l'université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, un nombre trop important d'étudiants a choisi de s'inscrire en L1 de sciences de la nature. Le président, Bertrand Monthubert, a décidé de décaler la rentrée d'une semaine afin de trouver une solution.
Une semaine de vacances supplémentaires. C'est ce dont vont « bénéficier » malgré eux 1 200 étudiants de l'université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier en raison d'un trop grand nombre d'inscrits en Licence 1 « Sciences de la nature ». Voir l'article...

By Jane Marshall. The proficiency of many Senegalese students in French, the colonial language, is declining and the use of local languages – especially Wolof – is becoming more common on campus and in lectures. But there is disagreement over whether the decline is due to poor teaching, the fault of students, government reforms, or overcrowding and poor facilities.
These are findings of a newspaper inquiry by Gaustin Diatta in Le Soleil of Dakar, following interviews with students and lecturers at the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, or UCAD, the country’s leading university. More...

By Torsten Wiesel. Overseas scholarships that encourage scientists to return to their home countries are helping to rebuild science in Latin America, says Torsten Wiesel.
It takes a long time for a country to build a strong base in science, but only a short time to destroy it. Germany was a sad example. It was a world leader in the sciences for more than a century, until its science base was demolished during the Nazi era, and the country ceded its position to the United States. It has taken decades for Germany to rise again to its current level of excellence. More...

By Chiao-Ling Chien and David W Chapman. Across Asia, higher education enrolment has experienced explosive growth over the last few decades, from 20 million students in 1980 to 84 million in 2011. To serve this growing enrolment, graduate programmes needed to expand, both to supply more instructors and to upgrade existing instructors’ qualifications in cases where unqualified lecturers were hired to teach in response to increasing numbers of undergraduates. More...

By John Richard Schrock. Police cars blocked the street, parked front bumper to back bumper, forming a barricade to traffic. Five blocks ahead, a similar barricade prevented any oncoming traffic. I had told my taxi driver "Yangling High School" and we had arrived. More...

By Goolam Mohamedbhai. The recent findings of the Inter-University Council for East Africa regarding the quality of graduates in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda must be considered a wake-up call for African higher education. Between 51% and 63% of graduates from these countries were found to be ‘half-baked’ according to the employers. This is, to put it mildly, alarming. More...

By Peta Lee. The number of students studying for a British transnational education award in the United Arab Emirates, or UAE, has seen astonishing growth over the past few years. This includes a 37% increase in students during the past two years – bringing to 15,000 the number studying there for United Kingdom awards. More...

By Nic Mitchell. As demand for full-time English undergraduate education continues to confound the prophets of doom by going up this year – despite the near three-fold increase in tuition fees – concern is mounting at falling applications for postgraduate courses, especially from British students. More...