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5 mai 2015

University group calls for deeper business links to research

By Tim Dodd. The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) grouping has clashed with a key science and engineering body over how to encourage more links between university researchers and industry.
Last week the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) called for a new measure of industry participation in university research based on the dollars spent by business in research projects. It contends that its approach is simple and can use existing information. More...

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5 mai 2015

Alternatives to higher education needed, expert group advises

By Joe Humphreys. Alternatives to higher education must be developed for school leavers to alleviate the financial pressure on universities and institutes of technology, the chair of a third-level expert group has said.
Peter Cassells told an Oireachtas committee the demand for higher education was set to grow by 30 per cent in the next decade.
From both a funding view and a “view of what’s right”, other options should be available to school leavers in area such as further education and apprenticeships, he said. More...

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5 mai 2015

Warning on loss of part-time students

By Sean Coughlan. The fall in part-time students in the UK means lost opportunities for individuals and the economy, the new head of the Open University warns.
Peter Horrocks is calling for part-time higher education to be made a much higher priority.
There has been a 37% decline in UK part-time students in the past five years, Mr Horrocks says. More...

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5 mai 2015

The EU has a goal of 40 percent of people completing a higher-level course

Eurostat figures have revealed that the European Union is edging closer to its Europe 2020 target in education.
The share of people who have attended a tertiary education college or equivalent, has risen from 23.6 percent in 2002, when the series started, to 37.9 percent in 2014, for those between the ages of 30 and 34.
Women have benefited the most from this increasing trend, as 42.3 percent have now been university educated or completed a course at a higher technical education institution, up to last year. Read more...

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5 mai 2015

Greek government raids research funds to pay public salaries

By Edwin Cartlidge. Greek scientists are angry and incredulous at what they see as a double-pronged government attack on the country's research system: the confiscation of research funding to plug a hole in Greece's ever worsening finances, and a new reform of higher education that they say will make universities more politicized and less meritocratic. More...

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5 mai 2015

Universities hail town’s regeneration by ‘graffiti’

By Paul Rigg. A town of 320 people in the mountainous area of Castellón, north-eastern Spain, has attracted considerable interest among Spanish universities because of its unique way of promoting culture and boosting economic growth. Read more...

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5 mai 2015

Academics must have key role in internationalisation

By Hans de Wit. In the last decade, higher education institutions, national governments and national and international organisations have become more proactive, comprehensive, diverse and innovative in their approaches to internationalisation. Read more...

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5 mai 2015

Stereotyping international students is unjust

By Ly Tran and Catherine Gomes. Around the world, over 4.5 million students are undertaking overseas tertiary education. There are approximately 590,000 international student enrolments in Australia by December 2014.
A recent ABC Four Corners Episode and associated comments over social media thrust international students into the spotlight. While it identified real problems of collusion, plagiarism and fraudulent overseas agents, it depicted international students as vulnerable and desperate individuals who were unprepared to cope with tertiary education in the English language. Read more...

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5 mai 2015

False barriers are hindering innovative research

By Patrick Prendergast. Fostering favourable conditions for research and innovation is one of the key things that Europe has to get right – at the institutional level of universities, at government level, and at EU level.
But what do we have to do to ensure that pathways to research are open and supported, so that we get innovative products and services, engaged and dynamic entrepreneurs, and growth and competitiveness on the continent. Read more...

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5 mai 2015

Is this the death of the equal opportunity era?

By Simon Marginson. The last decades have seen a rapid growth in the number of students going into higher education in English-speaking countries such as the United States, including those from lower income backgrounds. But has this created more equal societies. Read more...

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