By Nic Mitchell. The growth of transnational education, or TNE, must go hand in hand with an increase in quality, according to a panel of experts taking part in a webinar on the future of cross-border higher education. Read more...
31 mai 2016
31 mai 2016
Ministry mulls new masters degree guidelines
By Gilbert Nganga. Kenya is mulling over new university guidelines that will require masters students to publish at least one article in a refereed journal before being eligible to graduate. Read more...
31 mai 2016
University alliances team up to market research
By María Elena Hurtado. Three technology transfer hubs are being set up by Chilean universities in a bid to substantially increase their applied research as well as to market it at home and abroad. Read more...
31 mai 2016
Plans for a global higher education access consortium
By Karen MacGregor. Plans are afoot to launch a Global Higher Education Access and Diversity Consortium next year, bringing together universities and civil society groups from around the world to advocate, show leadership and share best practice around these globally pertinent issues. Read more...
31 mai 2016
Damage to science is softening free movement stance
By Yojana Sharma. Concern over the impact on participation in Europe’s prestigious Horizon 2020 research projects is shifting Swiss public opinion on free movement of workers from the European Union to a more pragmatic view, two years after the Swiss referendum “against mass immigration” in February 2014. Read more...
31 mai 2016
What stops students from studying abroad?
By Maarja Beerkens. As international linkages are more and more visible in everyday life and work, many countries have articulated an ambition to expose students more extensively to an international experience during their studies. Read more...
31 mai 2016
Higher education funding – Towards greater inequality?
By Liva Vikmane and Alexandra Antonescu. Many students in Europe have been and are still negatively affected by austerity measures and budget cuts in the education sector. For publicly funded higher education systems in Europe, excessive budget cuts ‘justified’ by the difficult economic times have, in many countries, led to poor education quality and an increasingly broken social ladder. Read more...
31 mai 2016
Decolonising the curriculum – A student call in context
By Brian Kamanzi. South Africa’s student movement focussed around calls for the removal of a statue of the imperialist megalomaniac and renowned ‘philanthropist’, Cecil John Rhodes, from the University of Cape Town. Read more...
31 mai 2016
Decolonising the academy – Towards a global movement?
By Njoki Wamai. Just over a year ago a protest movement against a Cecil John Rhodes statue at the University of Cape Town in South Africa called for the statue’s removal as its presence on campus was perceived as symbolising a lack of transformation from apartheid and colonialism. Read more...
31 mai 2016
Transforming the economics curriculum around the world
By Calum Mitchell. Since the global financial crisis eight years ago, students, academics and professional economists come have come together to form the international network Rethinking Economics, which has been calling for a better economics education in response to a discipline unfit for purpose. Read more...
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