Academics and students alike should be making better use of Wikipedia, a major study of digital technology use in Higher Education has recommended.

The Australia-UK collaboration led by Professor Neil Selwyn at Monash University’s Faculty of Education found that while Wikipedia was a popular background resource with students, it had not supplanted traditional sources of intellectual scholarship and authority. More...

By Bongani Nkosi. Extending degrees to prepare matrics for university may cut the dropout rate but would have cost implications for already cash-strapped students.
A Council on Higher Education proposal to extend tertiary undergraduate studies by a year to improve student performance stands a good chance of being snubbed by the government. More...

A few years ago it would have been unthinkable, but now Dutch universities are competing with each other for master’s students, the Volkskrant reports on Wednesday.
Universities are advertising in each other’s magazines and hanging up posters on competing campuses to try to attract students. Amsterdam, for example, is focusing on attracting students from Leiden and Utrecht. Leiden is active in Amsterdam, Groningen, Rotterdam and Utrecht. Read more...