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25 janvier 2018

Our mission to speak truth to power is under threat

By Rebecca Schendel. In early September, Third World Quarterly (a peer-reviewed development studies journal) published an essay by Bruce Gilley, associate professor of political science at Portland State University in the United States, entitled ‘The Case for Colonialism’, which argued for a return to Western colonialism as a solution to the problems facing weak and fragile states. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Progress in higher education hampered by poor schools

By V Santhakumar. Higher education in India receives a relatively high level of investment. Public and private investment in higher education constitutes about 3% of India’s gross domestic product. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Building a sense of HE community in xenophobic times

By Andrés Castro Samayoa. The current political climate in the United States has, unsurprisingly, had an impact on the climate for international students across the country’s 4,000 plus colleges and universities. The incidence of racist and xenophobic attacks continues to rise; college campuses are no exception, with recent events across various campuses receiving national attention. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Will global online higher education ever take off?

By Christopher Ziguras. Twenty years ago, at the beginning of the dot.com bubble, it seemed as though the advent of the internet would quickly lead to the rise of unstoppable new global online education providers, able to enrol hundreds of thousands of students in courses led by the biggest names in each discipline. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Students as victims of a national language malaise

By Laeed Zaghlami. An article published in The Economist earlier this year seems to suggest so. It quotes publisher Selma Hellal saying that young people in Algeria were “victims of language policies which have undermined our ability to express ourselves”. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Iran, Saudi Arabia vie for influence over Afghan HE

By Wagdy Sawahel. Two leading Islamic powers, Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran are building Islamic universities and higher education institutions in restive areas of Afghanistan in an attempt to use them as a proxy battleground and as soft power tools for expanding their ideological, cultural and political spheres of influence, according to experts on the region. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Higher education’s social responsibility to refugees

By Patrick Blessinger and Enakshi Sengupta. The number of displaced people around the world has reached unprecedented levels. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, estimates that more than 65 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced from their homes due to extreme violence, war, persecution and similar factors. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Scholar’s death sentence upheld as appeal ‘not filed’

By Brendan O’Malley. The imprisoned scholar, Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident and specialist in emergency medicine, has been told by the court that his execution will go ahead because no appeal was submitted within the deadline. More...

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25 janvier 2018

The languages strategy is an important first step

By Hanne Leth Andersen. Denmark now has a national languages strategy. This strategy did not make a lot of fuss about itself, probably because not all politicians agree on its importance. After all, the willingness to take action for foreign languages other than English is not the primary focus for everyone. More...

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25 janvier 2018

The merits of equality in Africa-China HE collaborations

By Simon Ngalomba. The China-Africa relationship goes back centuries as evidenced by the discovery of Chinese coins and porcelain in East African archaeological sites. Much more recently, in the 1950s, the relationship took the form of bilateral trade agreements between China and African countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan and Somalia. More...

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