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9 février 2018

Towards higher education in service of humanity

By Patrick Blessinger and Mandla Makhanya. The growing importance of education at all levels and the inclusion of more stakeholders in the educational enterprise has sparked debate about the fundamental nature and purpose of higher education (that is, what type of good is education?). Traditionally, viewed from an economic perspective, higher education has been treated largely as a public good. More...

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9 février 2018

QA bodies note progress in fighting academic corruption

By Mary Beth Marklein. Early research findings on academic corruption suggest that accreditation and quality assurance bodies in some countries are having success in handling the problem, but questions about how to deal with the unwieldy issue remain a work in progress. More...

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9 février 2018

HE accreditation sector faces pressure to reform

By Mary Beth Marklein. The higher education accreditation community, which confers the quality-assurance seal of approval that allows United States colleges and universities access to billions of dollars of federal student aid, must do a better job of explaining itself to the public if it wants to reverse waning public confidence in higher education. More...

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9 février 2018

Republicans seek more transparency in higher education

By Mary Beth Marklein. As the United States House of Representatives prepares to take up the primary piece of federal higher education legislation for the first time in nearly 10 years, the party lines couldn’t be clearer: Republicans are proposing a comprehensive rewrite of the law, and Democrats say they will fight tooth and nail to prevent passage of what they see as a deeply flawed proposal. More...

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9 février 2018

Rise in intergovernmental involvement in HE

By Mary Beth Marklein. There has long been a tension between government expectations for its universities and the goals and mission of a country’s institutions of higher education. And universities have long clung to the idyllic notion that the pursuit of knowledge – the truth – knows no political boundaries. More...

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9 février 2018

The global education imperative: Building bridges

By Allan E Goodman. For over a millennium now, the New World has inspired global imperatives. Explorers, warriors, priests and emperors have headed in our direction. For more than a hundred years, educators have joined their company as a way of mastering the future. In return, the women and men of the Americas have reminded us all that we need to first be clearer about what we teach in the present. More...

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9 février 2018

A better model than the Africanised university

By Eric Fredua-Kwarteng and Samuel Ofosu. African countries are yet to find or construct a university education model relevant to their development needs and aspirations. More...

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9 février 2018

Students under pressure as Putin runs for re-election

By Ararat Osipian. One of the biggest events in 2018, although one with an entirely predictable outcome, will be the re-election of Russia’s long-standing leader, Vladimir Putin. In March 2018, Putin will extend his presidency for another six years. More...

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9 février 2018

Italian court pushes back on the race towards English

By Rosemary Salomone. After six years of winding through the Italian courts, the case challenging the Polytechnic Institute of Milan’s decision to offer all graduate programmes in English reached a final legal conclusion on 29 January. The question now is whether the controversy fades from sight or the implications push to the boiling point a simmering debate over the proper place of English in academia. More...

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9 février 2018

Where did business schools and MBAs go wrong?

By Robert Quartly-Janeiro. Business schools are changing. Not what they teach. Not what they research. But what they cost and their very purpose. More...

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