By Hans de Wit. Towards the end of 2014, in his interesting ‘One thought to start the day’ blog, Alex Usher asked the intriguing question: “Who owns internationalisation?”By Farid Saydee. The education system in Afghanistan is in a deplorable condition. The country has a 28% literacy rate which is substantially lower than its neighbouring countries where the rate for Pakistan is 37% and for Iran 80%. Read more...By Diana Jane Beech. The nature of academia is changing. Despite once conjuring up images of scholars benevolently trying to solve life’s great mysteries behind the protection of the ivory tower, universities today have come to hide their own dark secrets. Read more...By Roger Griffin. Je suis Charlie! Je pense donc je suis Charlie! Je suis Ahmed! Mahomet est Charlie!By Wachira Kigotho. According to the report, Labor Policy to Promote Good Jobs in Tunisia, released on 9 January, graduates who find jobs do so under precarious working conditions. Read more...By Geoff Maslen. The latest figures from Graduate Careers Australia, or GCA, reveal that students who completed their degrees and entered the job market in 2014 were markedly less successful than their predecessors of past years. Read more...By Jane Marshall. Nine out of 10 French masters level graduates have found jobs two-and-a-half years after completing their higher education. But their pay rates vary depending on their studies, according to the fifth annual report on graduate employment compiled by the ministry of higher education.By Charlie Ball. Britain has one of the world's most detailed higher education data offerings, with especially effective national-level data on early graduate outcomes through the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey. Among major global higher education providers, only Australia has anything comparable as an integrated national view of the outcomes of graduates. Read more...New analysis has uncovered explicit links between employer engagement with higher education institutions that show enhancement of teaching and learning, and improvements in students’ employability. Read more...By Peter Schmidt, The Chronicle of Higher Education. The recent terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical newspaper that had published images of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, has prompted renewed criticism of Yale University Press’s controversial decision to redact similar cartoons from a scholarly book published in 2009. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
