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19 octobre 2014

Belarusian universities ready to welcome more students from Turkmenistan

Belarus is ready to train more students from Turkmenistan and provide accommodation for them. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko made the statement at the meeting with Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on 8 October, BelTA has learned.
“The Turkmen side would like to expand the presence of its students here particularly in view of the events in Ukraine. We have to do as much as we can,” the Belarusian leader said during the expanded participation negotiations. More...

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19 octobre 2014

Creation of Punjab HEC termed turning point in education sector

By Myra Imran. The academic circles on Monday welcomed the promulgation of an ordinance by the Punjab governor that provides for the creation of a Higher Education Commission (HEC) in Punjab for the regulation of provincial universities.
The news that went unnoticed in media is considered to be a turning point for higher education sector in the province. The Punjab Higher Education Commission has now been authorised to regulate funding of the universities in the province, and to also select their vice chancellors. More...

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19 octobre 2014

Towards quality transnational education

By Rahul Choudaha and Richard J Edelstein. In a recent article, Jane Knight noted the definitional and qualitative issues with joint and double degrees and called for “a rigorous debate on the vexing questions of accreditation, recognition and ‘legitimacy’ of the qualifications”.
In addition, a special issue of EAIE Forum magazine on Transnational Education (TNE) presented several viewpoints about the complexities, challenges, approaches and definitions of transnational education. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

The diversity of diversity

By Gad Yair. Accessibility and representation of minorities and disadvantaged students in higher education entails two partly dependent processes. The first is to get students to enrol – after having prepared them in high schools and pre-academic programmes, motivating them to access higher education, and preparing them to pass entrance examinations. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

From the margins to the table

By Suellen Shay. I started work on this think-piece with a feeling of disquiet about the title and its metaphors of ‘margins’ and ‘table’. This difficulty with language reminded me of a recent conversation with a potential funder. Their interest was in ‘bridging’ programmes, another metaphor we tend to avoid. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

Roma face deteriorating prospects

By William New. It is always necessary to begin with the question ‘Who are the Roma?’. They are paradoxically the most visible and the most invisible of minority populations. There seem to be ‘gypsies’ everywhere, visible where they are least wanted, and neither the public nor the politicians understand much about where they come from; they only know they’d like their gypsies to disappear.
The situation for Roma students
The current condition for Roma youth across Europe is encapsulated in the phrase ‘social exclusion’. Understanding the provenance of this term is useful in understanding the ‘life world’ of the Roma, because the ways in which the Roma are understood by majority society and policymakers determine to a large extent the possibilities open to them in most government - and even many NGO - policy documents. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

Refugees need access to higher education

By Ita Sheehy. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ 2013 Global Trends Report indicated that the number of refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people worldwide had, for the first time in the post-World War II era, exceeded 50 million. This massive increase was driven both by the war in Syria, which by the end of 2013 had forced 2.5 million people to leave their countries as refugees, and by new displacement in Africa due to new conflicts, notably in the Central African Republic and South Sudan. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

How to revive the California model

By Simon Marginson. Clark Kerr’s multiversity has spread across the world, but at home it is fraying at the edges. A rethink on tuition fees and on the wider benefits of higher education is needed to ensure its model of balancing excellence and access continues to impact international higher education. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

Academic reputation affects citation count

By Geoff Maslen. An academic’s reputation plays a key role in generating increases in a scientific paper’s citation count early in its citation life cycle, before a tipping point, after which his or her reputation has much less influence relative to the paper’s citation count. This is the intriguing finding from a study by a team of collaborating social science analysts in Belgium, Finland, Italy and the US.
Using data compiled by Thomson Reuters Web of Science, the team studied 450 highly cited scientists, nearly 84,000 articles in scientific publication, and 7.6 million citations tracked over the equivalent of 387,000 publication years. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

Making higher education financially sustainable

By Art Hauptman. The biggest issue facing Irish higher education may not be the level of national investment but the mix of public and private funding. Ireland has a modest level of public investment when compared to other OECD countries and a very low level of private investment in the form of privately paid tuition fees. Read more...

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