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5 août 2015

How African doctorates and doctoral candidates are changing

By Michael Anthony Samuel. People’s attitudes towards and expectations of doctoral candidates have changed several times in Africa. During the 1960s and 1970s, as many colonial powers left the continent, doctoral graduates were valued as sophisticated scholars. More...

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5 août 2015

Policing plagiarism could make universities miss the real problems

By Sioux McKenna and Amanda Mphahlele. Plagiarism regularly makes the headlines and universities are under pressure to tackle the problem decisively. More...

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5 août 2015

Africa’s business schools must champion anti-corruption education

By Shiv Tripathi and Ganka Daniel Nyamsogoro. Corruption touches our lives every day. It happens across the private sector as well as the public service in the realms of housing, education, health and agriculture. Its influence reaches dangerously further, too: it directly threatens sustainable development. More...

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5 août 2015

Universities need to adapt to become part of shaping a better future

By Robin Moore. Universities have three “missions”. The first two are teaching and research. The third goes by many names: community engagement, public service, knowledge exchange or sometimes the entrepreneurial periphery. More...

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5 août 2015

Why do so few black males go into STEM areas? Here’s what made DeAndre give up

By Ebony O McGee. Dressed in a black hoodie and sagging jeans, DeAndre (name changed) swaggers down the street, singing loudly the gritty lyrics of a gangsta rap. More...

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5 août 2015

‘Class ceiling’ in workplace suppresses the American dream

By Glenn Altschuler. The American dream of equal opportunity, based on the conviction that intelligence, hard work and character are the keys to success, may be on life support. These days children raised at the top or bottom fifths of the income pyramid tend to stay there, even as adults. More...

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5 août 2015

Foreign students not a threat, but an advantage

By Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Bernhard Streitwieser. An undeniable shift is taking place across US campuses with the number of international students increasing rapidly. Between 2003 and 2013, the number of foreign students studying in the US increased by 55% with continuing growth anticipated in the years ahead. More...

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5 août 2015

Without a humanistic inquiry, we will lose our creativity

By A Joan Saab. Today it is hard to imagine that the national government would spend millions of dollars to put unemployed artists to work for the good of the country.
But that is precisely what happened in the United States at the height of the Great Depression. There has been a lot of talk lately about the “worth of the humanities” and of the creative arts in particular. More...

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5 août 2015

Why do students cheat? Listen to this dean’s words

By Chris Loschiavo. Cheating in college has been with us since the inception of higher education. In recent months, cases of cheating, including large-scale cheating at elite colleges, have led to considerable turmoil. More...

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5 août 2015

In the Science retraction, a learning moment for researchers and the public

By Judith Stark. The recent case of the retraction of an article on the ability of openly gay canvassers to shift voters' views toward support for same-sex marriage serves in many ways as a cautionary tale both for researchers and the public. More...

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