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7 mai 2018

Government approves two more private universities

The government has approved two more private universities – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah University in Khulna and Ahsania Mission University of Science and Technology in Rajshahi – increasing the number of private universities in the country to 99, reports The Daily Star. More...

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7 mai 2018

Scaling up global higher education – The viable option

By Eileen Kennedy and Diana Laurillard. At the start of the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) conference on the new geopolitics of higher education, Michael Ignatieff argued the case for academic freedom, that universities are counter-authoritarian institutions, helping to open up societies. More...

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7 mai 2018

Three ERC humanities grants in three years for KTH

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Sverker Sörlin, professor of environmental history at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has been awarded the prestigious Horizon 2020 European Research Council Advanced Grant of €2.5 million (US$3 million) for the project “The Rise of Environmental Governance: A history of the contemporary human Earth relationship”. More...

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7 mai 2018

Unintended policy consequences constrain student choice

By Karen MacGregor. The policies of successive English governments, aimed among other things at enhancing student choice through income-contingent loans tied to rising tuition fees, have had the opposite effect for many students. More...

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7 mai 2018

World-class systems rather than world-class universities

By Rajani Naidoo. Equality in higher education is a global issue, particularly in relation to the current fetish for global competition. There is a blind faith that competition in all areas of higher education will automatically lead to positive outcomes, including greater equality. However, in general different types of competition interact to create major barriers to enhancing equality. More...

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7 mai 2018

Do we provide the right support for migrant academics?

By Namrata Rao and Anesa Hosein. Migrant academics rarely make such international moves for better teaching or pedagogic opportunities. Yet most migrant academics are expected to teach in their new environments, often without any formal induction or training. More...

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7 mai 2018

The importance of understanding inward student mobility

By Wondwosen Tamrat. The discussion in University World News (and its partner International Higher Education) on whether internationalisation in the sense in which we used to know it is ending, faltering or changing course is gathering momentum with new articles emphasising the need for factoring in various dimensions into the debate. More...

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7 mai 2018

Mature student admissions should reflect modern life

By Samuel Ofosu and Eric Fredua-Kwarteng. Entrants to undergraduate programmes in most African universities can be divided into four groups. The first group is made up of senior secondary school graduates aged 17 to 19. This is the typical, traditional group and it constitutes the largest of any cohort of matriculated students. But this group has practically zero employment and life experiences. More...

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7 mai 2018

How internal quality assurance can drive success

By Michaela Martin. Today, higher education systems and institutions are exposed, more than ever, to constant change and transformation. As the higher education sector is quickly expanding, institutions and programmes have become much more diversified and often privatised. Within this context, the quality of institutions and their programmes are more easily questioned. More...

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7 mai 2018

Universities appeal to president to end lengthy strike

By Tunde Fatunde. University stakeholders have issued an ultimatum to President Patrice Talon, urging him to resolve a three-month-long strike which has shuttered the country’s four universities, or face mass action that will render his government illegitimate and the country ungovernable. More...

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