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19 septembre 2016

Cabinet approves higher education financing agency

To give a major push for the creation of high quality infrastructure in premier educational institutions, the union cabinet last week approved the establishment of the Higher Education Financing Agency, reports IANS. Read more...

19 septembre 2016

First-year attrition rates show increase

First-year university students are leaving their original chosen courses at a higher rate than ever as new data shows about one in five commencing bachelor students left their original course in 2014, and about 15% dropped out completely, writes Liz Burke for News.com.au. Read more...

19 septembre 2016

€3.5 billion needed to educate refugees

Germany will need €3.5 billion (US$3.9 billion) in funds in order to provide appropriate education to refugees, according to a recent report released by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research, writes Ann-Kathrin Pohlers for The PIE News. Read more...

19 septembre 2016

Scientists under increasing pressure to conform – Study

The embattled country’s research enterprise is at risk following a failed coup, designed to overthrow a regime that shows continued hostility towards science. For years we have studied how scientists around the world view the social context of science, and Turkish scientists have long been worried about their academic freedom and autonomy, write Elaine Howard Ecklund, David R Johnson and Kirstin RW Matthews for The Scientist. Read more...

19 septembre 2016

Building innovation, entrepreneurship in universities

By Sharon Dell. Are entrepreneurs born or made? That debate still rages, but for Central University of Technology Vice-chancellor Professor Thandwa Mthembu the answer is clear: Entrepreneurs can indeed be made and it’s time to invest more seriously in that process. Read more...

19 septembre 2016

At the heart of e-learning – Connections, disconnections

By Stephen Coan. Branch gave the keynote address on the second day of the 2016 E-learning Update conference held from 6-8 September in Johannesburg, South Africa, which featured three days of papers, short papers and workshops. Read more...

19 septembre 2016

A mission made in Africa

By Brendan O'Malley. Blooming Soyinka, 31, from a rural village in Nigeria, knows what hunger means and knows how to break free of poverty. No one in her family had made it to college before but she raised her own funds to secure a place at a university in Illinois, United States and later gained a scholarship to the University of British Columbia, Canada. Read more...

19 septembre 2016

How to make the most of international HE partnerships

By Patrick Blessinger and Barbara Cozza. University partnerships have become powerful vehicles for promoting civic and democratic engagement, cultivating international economic development and fostering teacher and school system improvement, among other aims. Read more...

19 septembre 2016

How can we internationalise HE with technology?

Online education and internationalisation have been rising as strategic priorities for many university leaders around the world. Read more...

19 septembre 2016

Recognising refugee qualifications

By Margit A Schatzman. Immigration has arisen as a critical issue in the 2016 United States presidential election, yet the average US citizen may not know the breadth and depth of the immigrant population in the country and its contributions. Read more...

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