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22 mars 2015

Strategies to help fund university enrolment expansion

By Wachira Kigotho. African countries have been urged to explore creative tax strategies as one way to improve the financing of universities. Dr Patrick Awuah, founder of the private Ashesi University in Ghana, told the African Higher Education Summit that to raise Africa’s enrolment ratio from around 7% to 30% meant governments would have to spend 50 times more on the sector. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

Higher education and Africa’s social and political progress

By Kofi Annan. I have long been a believer in the transformative power of education. As Nelson Mandela used to say: “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.”
Education is one of the most effective forms of peace building, a source of hope for each individual and the premise of development and progress in every society. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

African Higher Education Summit – A continental agenda for next 50 years

By Karen MacGregor – Africa Editor. This week we publish a Special Report on the African Higher Education Summit held in Dakar. The summit covered topics ranging from the rapid expansion and governance of universities to investment in higher education, graduate employability, equity and gender issues, and higher education harmonisation.
John Kirkland OBE argues that building African higher education will take time – but the investment will be worthwhile – and Damtew Teferra outlines five ‘talking points’ for African leaders to consider at a heads of state meeting in June 2015, where higher education revitalisation will be on the agenda.
In World Blog, Hans de Wit wonders what the much bandied-about term ‘international university’ actually means and how it can be defined in ways that enhance education.
In Commentary, Mike Gow contends that Western universities are complicit in creating a study abroad recruitment system that serves neither students nor their parents. Serhiy Kvit, Ukraine’s minister of education, explains why science is at the heart of the reform process, and Maurits van Rooijen writes that when selecting a university students are rightly as interested in the lifestyle it offers as in the institution itself. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

Top US academic slams UK's fixation with rankings

By Javier Espinoza. A leading US academic in the field of international education has slammed British universities for their obession on rankings. Read more...

By Robert Eaglestone. These seem to be very bad times for graduate research students in the arts and humanities, the intended audience for this book. The job market is not great; funding is scarce; casualisation, which might appear to serve grad students but actually exploits them, proceeds apace; the smooth, high walls of the ivory tower seem ever more exclusive and imposing; the groves of academe (odd, I’ve always thought, to have groves inside a tower) ever more remote. Even from the pages of Times Higher Education, our little world’s local paper, opinion pieces declare that, to prevent them getting “exalted notions of themselves” (forfend!), researchers in the arts and humanities should realise that they are simply “trainspotters in their field” about whom no one cares (wait: trainspotters in a…field?). More...

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