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15 novembre 2017

Time for decisive action to improve teacher education

By Nita Temmerman. There have been literally dozens and dozens of reviews of teacher education that have taken place over the past 40 or so years. The recommendations made in the accompanying reports are, on the whole, sensible proposals for what could be done to improve teacher and teaching quality and so ultimately education at all levels of schooling. More...

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15 novembre 2017

Why the world-class model doesn’t work for India

By V Santhakumar. Policy-makers in India and other developing countries want to create what they call ‘world-class’ universities. Most of the country’s universities suffer from a lack of adequate financial resources and effective academics and also from an undesirable bureaucracy. More...

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15 novembre 2017

Over 8,000 non-PhD lecturers face job loss, demotion

By Gilbert Nganga. More than 8,000 lecturers in Kenya risk losing their teaching jobs or being demoted in the next two months as a government directive setting a new appointment threshold for tutors takes effect. More...

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15 novembre 2017

Educating for the fourth industrial revolution

By Roger Chao Jr. With technology rapidly changing our economic, cultural and social realities, the question of how to prepare the younger, and even the current, generation for the fourth industrial revolution has been a pressing issue for contemporary higher education. More...

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15 novembre 2017

In turbulent times trust is crucial for universities

By Wilhelm Krull. We are living in turbulent times. Nationalist, populist and separatist movements seem to be on the rise almost everywhere in Europe. What is even more frightening, however, is the tendency in several countries, such as Hungary, Poland and in particular Turkey, to transform once democratically elected governments into autocratic regimes. More...

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15 novembre 2017

Report calls for overhaul of agricultural education

By Munyaradzi Makoni. South Africa is unable to realise its considerable agricultural potential in part because agricultural education and training systems are in need of a major overhaul, according to a recent report commissioned by the Academy of Science of South Africa. More...

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15 novembre 2017

Higher education failing to challenge inequity – Report

By Wachira Kigotho. According to the report Sharing Higher Education’s Promise Beyond the Few in Sub-Saharan Africa, released on 31 October, international experience suggests that university education often starts off being biased towards the elite but as it expands it becomes more equitable. More...

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15 novembre 2017

International students add US$627 million to economy

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The net contribution to the economy of the 5,046 international students graduating with masters degrees in 2007-11, when deducting for all costs incurred for higher education and welfare expenses, including for those receiving Danish student financing or SU, was DKK4 billion (US$627 million) in 2007-11. More...

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15 novembre 2017

Are universities picking the right research partners?

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Stakeholders in Sweden’s research system should reconsider how they develop future international collaboration to take into account the fast pace of growth in research in countries that are not among Sweden’s main partners, according to a new report released by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education or STINT. More...

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15 novembre 2017

Institutions move to cut international student numbers

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Enrolment in Danish business academies and professional universities fell by nearly 28% in 2017 following action taken by the institutions to reduce the number of foreign students, according to a statement by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. More...

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