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7 mai 2018

Parents a key player in offspring studying abroad

By Nic Mitchell. Parents are a key player in influencing their offspring to study abroad, according to a worldwide survey to get inside the applicant’s mind and understand the study abroad decision-making process. More...

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7 mai 2018

Study-abroad students want more responsive staff

By Nic Mitchell. Study-abroad students in the Netherlands have many different reasons for deciding to enrol in a foreign university, but they are agreed on one thing – they want a better service from the lecturers teaching them. More...

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7 mai 2018

European universities ‘cannibalising’ their own courses

By Nic Mitchell. Universities in some European countries are in danger of 'cannibalising' their own courses in the rush to introduce programmes taught in English, the head of international marketing at a leading Italian university warned a conference in Amsterdam last week. More...

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7 mai 2018

Don’t ignore the dark clouds among the bright spots

By Hans de Wit. Over the past weeks, several colleagues have commented on the pessimism Philip Altbach and I expressed regarding the future of internationalisation in our commentary in University World News on 23 February and my additional commentary on 23 March. More...

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7 mai 2018

When East meets West in transnational higher education

By Catherine Gomes. Whenever I write an opinion piece about international education in Australia, I always brace myself for the thinly disguised xenophobia that emerges in comments reflecting on the ‘international student’. More...

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7 mai 2018

Big data could be key to Africa’s graduate employability

By Nan Yeld. All over the African continent, higher education is expanding its reach, both in terms of numbers and range of qualifications. At the same time, Sub-Saharan universities face enormous challenges in enhancing quality and relevance. There are many reasons for this – paramount is the issue of the lack of reliable and useful data on the basis of which to plan, monitor and review. More...

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7 mai 2018

What makes a real international university ranking?

By Waldemar Siwinski and Richard Holmes. The first international university ranking was produced by Asiaweek in 1999 and 2000, to be followed in 2003 by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The Webometrics Ranking and the Times Higher Education – Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings both started in 2004. Since then, international university rankings have proliferated. More...

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7 mai 2018

Vietnamese students look at the US and head north

By Mark Ashwill. In the past year, I have heard from quite a few Vietnamese parents and students who either decided to choose Canada over the United States as their primary overseas study destination or were considering transferring from a US to a Canadian institution. More...

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7 mai 2018

Leadership programme supports 200 Syrian students

By Michael Gardner. More than 200 Syrians have received funding support for their studies in Germany via the ‘Leadership for Syria’ programme, which was officially concluded in April. New initiatives to support Syrian students are currently being discussed. More...

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7 mai 2018

US$5 million allocated for university technology hubs

By Kudzai Mashininga. The Zimbabwe government has set aside more than US$5 million to put in place technology hubs at six state-run universities in a move that it hopes will spearhead the country’s industrialisation and modernisation. More...

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