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16 décembre 2015

PM signals culture shift on innovation and science

By Brendan O'Malley. The Australian government has announced a National Innovation and Science Agenda backed initially by A$1.1 billion (US$790 million) over four years, aimed at encouraging “smart ideas that create business growth, local jobs and global success”, signalling the start of an era of systematic ongoing – rather than stop-start – funding for science, with a permanent watchdog established at the heart of government. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

Student innovation and entrepreneurship in Florida

By Karen MacGregor. “The university has been very interested in developing undergraduate student success through programmes that highlight creativity and innovation across the campus in a variety of ways.” The freshman retention rate is 96%. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

Urgent need to enable and sustain entrepreneurship

By Karen MacGregor. Despite a climate of massive unemployment, South Africa’s post-school education system remains largely preoccupied with producing graduates who will seek jobs, according to Narend Baijnath, CEO of the Council on Higher Education. In fact, levels of entrepreneurial activity are dropping and the education sector is partly to blame. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

Redefine creativity to include entrepreneurship

By Karen MacGregor. Alternative thinking around entrepreneurship was being sought from Pamponet in a discussion via Skype from Brazil during the South African Technology Network’s Eighth Annual International Conference 2015 on “Entrepreneurship Education for Economic Renewal”, held at the science park of Vaal University of Technology from 19-21 October. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

Doctoral education – Need for more radical rethinking?

By Naledi Pandor. The just-published Doctoral Education in South Africa by Nico Cloete, Johann Mouton and Charles Sheppard reveals new approaches South Africa can take for a ‘radical rethink’ to meet its PhD targets. Government efforts have supported the doubling in a decade of doctoral graduate numbers to 2,200 a year, and the new research will play a key role in transforming the PhD in the coming decade. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

China-Africa – Reviewing higher education’s gains

By Simon Ngalomba. Relations with China have revived Africa’s prospects in diverse ways, with investment, trade and development activities that have helped the continent achieve economic growth of 4.5% in 2015. An increasing focus on higher education and skills training was highlighted at the second summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in South Africa this month. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

Strengthening higher education in a time of peace

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Eritrea has in recent months recruited foreign academics and signed international higher education agreements. It is an indication that the country may be turning a corner, putting war and destruction in the past and strengthening universities for the future. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

STEM research in Sub-Sahara declining – World Bank

By Wachira Kigotho. Research in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, fields in Sub-Saharan Africa has declined in the last 10 years in quantity and citation impact – but there has been steady progress in other sciences, especially health – according to a new World Bank report. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

Euro-Mediterranean virtual energy university endorsed

By Wagdy Sawahel. Five North African countries – Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia – along with 38 European and Mediterranean states stand to benefit from a new initiative to set up an ‘energy university’ that will provide free, specialised education for energy professionals via an online platform. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

Government bonds to fund higher education development

By Kudzai Mashiningo. Zimbabwe’s government has resolved to issue higher and tertiary education bonds for the development of infrastructure at public universities, polytechnics and colleges. Read more...

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