By Peter Jean. Boarding houses could be established for Chinese teenagers who want to undertake their secondary studies in ACT high schools before attending the University of Canberra or the ANU.
As part of the Study Canberra initiative, the ACT government is working with local universities to attract more overseas students to Canberra.
Chief Minister and Higher Education Minister Katy Gallagher said the group was looking at ways to enable more Chinese and other international students to complete high school in Canberra before attending local tertiary institutions. Read more...
By Geoff Maslen. More women are enrolling at university than before, and outnumber men from bachelor degrees to the top doctoral peaks.
Girls outperform and outstay boys in school and, as a result, they go on to university in ever greater numbers. According to new statistics from the federal Education Department, the number of female students in higher education jumped by 33.5 per cent between 2002 and 2012, compared with a 22 per cent rise for males. In 2002, of the 151,550 Australian students who graduated from university, 56 per cent were women. By 2012, graduation numbers had increased to nearly 195,000, of whom 60 per cent were female, a ratio likely to be higher again this year. Read more...
By Roger Y Chao Jr. At a talk at City University of Hong Kong on 13 November Dr Yukio Hatoyama, president of the East Asian Community Institute, outlined a vision of an East Asian Community based on the spirit of fraternity, cooperation and empathy. By Andrew Masterson. Among ambitious academics, the urge to see one's name in print is strong indeed. ‘Publish or perish’ is the governing dictum. Each piece of diligent research – written, submitted, fact-checked, reviewed, reviewed again and published in a scholarly journal – helps ensure the next grant, the continuation of tenure, the juicy job offer. Read more...By Yojana Sharma. China has stepped up pressure on ethnic minority students and lecturers in the restive northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, insisting that students must pass a test of political views and declare their allegiance to the Chinese state in order to graduate. Read more...
GHEF2013 seeks to create a dialogic space for widening the representation of diverse voices, strengthening cultural connectivity, intercivilisational and cultural dialogues, and indigenous knowledge systems. We would like to hear from the less represented and unheard voices alongside the experts and key players in fora on higher education. We believe that sustainable higher education futures engage with multiple actors and stakeholders locally, regionally and transnationally. This commitment stretches beyond dialogues, towards establishing firm plans and actions to empower the majority for the greater public good of all. Through conversations and partnerships between the various stakeholders and actors whose worldviews, voices and narratives matters, transformation unfolds. We aspire for an organically linked higher education ecosystem which is responsive to the needs of the communities. We would contest the hegemony of higher education which at times, seen to be separate, even alienated from its immediate socio-cultural communities and contexts; and taken a life of its own, at times, more connected to the elitist and privileged world outside, visible by the global order of internationalisation, the pursuit of global ranking at any costs and the commodification of higher education in an ascending higher education marketplace. It matters to us at GHEF2013 that the intercultural conversations and the multiple partnerships to build and sustain a symbiotic higher education ecosystem are vitally linked to the local and global community.
By Kim Chi. The 150 polled businesses in Hanoi gave 3.05 points when asked to assess the university graduates’ capability to adapt to the works. One is the lowest and five is the highest in the marking scheme.
New graduates not highly appreciated
The research team headed by Nguyen Ngoc Phuong, MA, from the Ly Tu Trong Technique Junior College in HCM City, has completed a survey on the qualification of university and junior college graduates by consulting with automobile maintenance companies in the city. More...
The address and a debate on the subject were held at ET MasterClass, an initiative of The Economic Times in association with India Centre for Assessment & Accreditation (ICAA). "The websites of Indian universities are awful," Sowter said, adding, in the same vein, "Considering India produces 80% of the world's internet developers, isn't it alarming? Of all the markets surveyed by us, India is the least transparent in terms of data collection from websites." More...
By Kalinga Seneviratne. Singapore is offering big money and five years of guaranteed research funding to woo back top Singaporean scientists and engineers from overseas and help the city state become a global research and development powerhouse.
The Returning Singaporean Scientists Scheme launched last month by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, aims to encourage leading researchers in their field globally to take up leadership positions in Singapore. More...
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