A government panel last week proposed the creation of higher education institutions offering vocational courses to address the need for specialists in sectors such as information technology and tourism, reports Jiji. Read more...
6 juin 2016
6 juin 2016
All scientific papers to be free under EU proposals
All publicly funded scientific papers published in Europe could be made free to access by 2020, under a “life-changing” reform ordered by the European Union’s science chief, Carlos Moedas, writes Nadia Khomami for the Guardian. Read more...
6 juin 2016
Gender disparity increasing at universities
More than half of public universities in Malaysia have extreme disparities in favour of women, according to a new report by the Penang Institute, writes Ong Kian Ming for MalaysiaKini. Read more...
6 juin 2016
Closing the feedback loop
By Mikhail Balyasin and Georgiana Mihut. The following scenario will be familiar to most of us: you have spent anywhere between 10 and 30 minutes completing an online survey only to see the message “Thank you for your participation!” and then you never hear about that survey or its results again. Read more...
6 juin 2016
An innovative model for higher education reform
By Thanh Nguyen. Reforming higher education has been a top priority of the Vietnamese government in recent years. Even though some progress has been made, university reform still lags egregiously behind the country’s economic transformation. Read more...
6 juin 2016
Why India needs to attract more international students
By Pratik Gandhi. Around the corridors of the ministry responsible for education in India, you will often hear statements like: "India itself has huge demand internally and so we don't need international students." It’s not just those in education who say such things – even economists ask: "Foreign student kyu chaiye [Why foreign students]?". Read more...
6 juin 2016
Credentials fraud now a global threat for universities
By Mary Beth Marklein. Diploma mills have been on the United States radar screen as far back as 1876, when then commissioner of education John Eaton Jr called them a “disgrace to American education”. Today, credential fraud in higher education is a billion-dollar industry, by some accounts. It has spiralled into a major threat for employers and university admissions offices. And it spans the globe. Read more...
6 juin 2016
Trump victory would deter international students, NAFSA told
By Mary Beth Marklein. A contentious climate on Capitol Hill poses challenges for anyone’s policy agenda in the United States this year. But the 2016 election season is further complicating the goals of advocates for global learning, who gathered last week in Denver in the US for the 68th annual conference of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. Read more...
6 juin 2016
Government agrees to host Syrian refugees as students
By Suvendrini Kakuchi. In a move widely viewed by experts as responding to international pressure, Japan has said it will host some 150 Syrian refugees as foreign students in support of Europe’s efforts to tackle the influx of tens of thousands of people fleeing war in their country. Read more...
6 juin 2016
Call for students to unite behind one global voice
By Brendan O'Malley. The declaration, composed by student representatives from South America, North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, says education is a human right and one of the “great social equalizers” but is under threat from commodification, neglect for quality, lack of accessibility and attacks on students’ fundamental rights. Read more...
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