By Brendan O’Malley. The presence of institutional strategies is essential to universities’ efforts to enhance internationalisation, according to new research by the European Association for International Education. Read more...
29 mai 2015
29 mai 2015
Income from non-EU foreign students dwarfs costs – Study
By Brendan O’Malley. International students in London are contributing £2.8 billion (US$4.3 billion) a year to the UK economy through fees and spending that they, their friends and families bring to the UK.
Some £1.32 billion is spent on fees, £1.36 billion on living costs and £121 million through visitor spending, says a new report. Read more...
29 mai 2015
Mergers might ‘never succeed with an elected rector’
By Jan Petter Myklebust. Having an elected rector could be a barrier to university mergers succeeding, a leading expert told the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education, or NOKUT, last week. Read more...
29 mai 2015
Foreign students take high school route to university
By Mary Beth Marklein. Fed by growing demand abroad among parents who hope a US high school education will boost their child's attractiveness to top US universities, a small but growing number of US secondary schools are recruiting international students. Read more...
29 mai 2015
Bologna progress report says ‘much more to be done’
By Brendan O’Malley. Much more needs to be done to harmonise Europe’s higher education system, according to a new report into the state of implementation of the Bologna Process across the European Higher Education Area, or EHEA.This report provides strong evidence that quality assurance continues to be an area of dynamic evolution that has been spurred on through the Bologna Process and the development of the EHEA. Read more...
29 mai 2015
Enhancing university-industry linkages for ‘rising Africa’
By Patrick Mbataru. The role of universities in social and economic development in Africa cannot be gainsaid. Tertiary education equips individuals with skills to fit the job market. Quality university education has spilled over at macro-economic level. It is now recognised that improving university education has a positive impact on gross domestic product. Read more...29 mai 2015
Entrepreneurship mentors help graduates to create jobs
By Andrew Green. In Uganda as elsewhere, recent graduates are learning a tough lesson – a university education is no guarantee of a job. More than half of people under 30 are without full-time employment, and the problem is particularly acute among degree holders. Read more...29 mai 2015
Talent of study abroad graduates is under-used – Study
By Munyaradzi Makoni. The study revealed that most Africans who partly or fully studied for degrees, masters or doctorates in Europe through European Union-funded programmes and returned to their home countries, and African academic diaspora based in European universities, were keen to contribute to higher education in Africa. Read more...29 mai 2015
Finance boost for university governance, skills training
By Wachira Kigotho. The World Bank will provide US$33 million to improve governance in Mali’s higher education system and to support more than 20,000 students to acquire skills that enable them to get decent jobs. Read more...29 mai 2015
Government to accelerate transformation in universities
By Karen MacGregor. South Africa’s Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande has announced that he is paying close attention to “accelerated transformation in universities, including setting concrete targets and transformation indicators”. The demographics of the professoriate needs to be radically changed, discrimination eliminated and student success and support improved. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)