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19 novembre 2018

Universities in dispute over copyright fees legal action

By Geoff Maslen. Australia’s 39 universities could face a huge increase in their copyright fees following legal action by the Copyright Agency (CA) to claim a bigger return for their copying and sharing of material in published work. More...

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19 novembre 2018

International student growth is the slowest since 9/11

By Mary Beth Marklein. Universities in the United States last year enrolled more than a million international students, up 1.5% from the previous year, the slowest rate of growth since the years after the 2001 terrorist attacks, says a report released on Tuesday. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Putting reflective practice at the heart of leadership

By Sharon Dell. At the centre of transformative leadership stands the reflective practitioner, an individual learner – either student or staff member – who is open to a constant exchange of knowledge, cultures and world views and who does not simply memorise but grapples with information, understands it and is also able, where necessary, to challenge it. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Top academic in ambitious bid to groom future scholars

By Edwin Naidu. The basic reason for the programme is that no university teaches young academics how to become professors, which means that a lot of time, resources and opportunities are lost, leading to great frustration and struggles to transform the professoriate in former white universities. More...

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19 novembre 2018

What’s holding Africa’s young scientists back?

By Munyaradzi Makoni and Sharon Dell. Co-edited by Canadian social scientist Catherine Beaudry (École Polytechnique de Montréal), and Johann Mouton and Heidi Prozesky from the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, The Next Generation of African Scientists is the product of a four-year study into what influences research performance and development of young scientists from more than 50 African countries. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Overcoming the public-private divide in HE law

By Wondwosen Tamrat. The public-private distinction has been a major area of interest in the broader realms of business, law, public administration and, lately, in the evolving literature on higher education. However, the growth of privatisation tendencies within the public sector has increasingly challenged the wisdom of drawing such a clear distinction between the two spheres of public and private. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Universities shouldn't be playing the global rankings game

By Ahmed Essop. Once again, Times Higher Education’s annual global university rankings have drawn a lot of attention from the media and in the higher education sector. In South Africa, this has focused on the four institutions from the country that made the top 500 on the 2019 list. More...

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19 novembre 2018

World Bank US$20 million grant aims to address skills gap

By Christabel Ligami. The government of Sierra Leone has received a US$20 million grant from the World Bank for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) focused on the agriculture, fisheries, tourism, oil and gas, and mining sectors. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Government takes action over fake lecturer certificates

By Francis Kokutse. The Ghanaian government has ordered the verification of qualifications of all teaching staff in technical universities because of concerns that some lecturers have used fraudulent certificates to obtain their employment. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Unhappiness over postgraduate application process

By Azzeddine Bensouiah. Algerian campuses are simmering and risk a troubled year ahead as unhappiness continues over the administration of the recent access competitions which are required for admission to masters and doctoral degrees. More...

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