Formation Continue du Supérieur

8 mars 2015

Au-delà des intentions, la revitalisation de l’enseignement supérieur passe par la performance

Par Nico Cloete. Entre la fin des années 1990 et le début des années 2000, plusieurs voix influentes ont appelé à la « revitalisation » de l’université africaine, préconisant d’associer l’enseignement supérieur au développement. Ces appels ont débouché dans les années qui ont suivi sur une série d’initiatives de « revitalisation » et l’usage de ce terme persiste encore aujourd’hui, comme en témoigne l’intitulé du prochain Sommet sur l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique : « Revitaliser l’enseignement supérieur pour l’avenir de l’Afrique ». Voir l'article...

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8 mars 2015

Where’s the evidence?

By Grace Karram Stephenson. As with most countries, Canada’s universities are increasingly important to the nation’s economic and social development. Indeed, their central role in recruiting skilled labour was evident in February when the government altered its new immigration laws to provide universities with more freedom to recruit their own personnel. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

Governance issues are holding the country back

By Ranjit Goswami. A lot has been said about quality, or rather the lack of it, in India’s education system. With nearly 25 million births a year, and more than a million people entering the workforce every month, the country’s future social stability, from the sustainability of its economic growth to its global economic competitiveness, is largely dependent on a single factor – the education and skills the nation’s youth possess. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

Reaching students in a snap

By Abi Mandelbaum. Recently, Snapchat – a photo and video social media platform – surpassed Instagram and Tumblr as the fastest growing social media app for smartphones, with an estimated 200 million Snapchat users, the vast majority of whom are aged 25 or younger, and with 77% of US college students reportedly using Snapchat on a daily basis. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

Research chairs act as catalyst for development

By Adamu A Ahmed. As the concept of a knowledge-based economy gains greater purchase among the public, several countries have taken steps to transform their universities in line with national goals and global competitiveness. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

Taking income contingent loans to the world

By Bruce Chapman. At least eight countries around the world have adopted versions of Australia’s Higher Education Contribution Scheme. Known as HECS, the scheme requires students to pay some of the cost of their degrees and the remainder through a government loan. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

Foreign students to pay full fees for higher education?

By Jane Marshall. Most foreign students from outside the European Union should pay full tuition fees, and these resources – estimated at €850 million (US$940 million) – should be invested to ensure France can adapt to the new challenges of internationalising higher education while offering a fair, high-quality, attractive system, says a new report.
The report, Investir dans l’Internationalisation de l’Enseignement Supérieur – Investing in the Internationalisation of Higher Education – is by Nicolas Charles and Quentin Delpech of France Stratégie, a strategic and consultative unit attached to the Prime Minister’s office. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

Better school marks send record numbers to universities

By Gilbert Nganga. Educationists have warned that this will pile pressure on universities that have already strained facilities and a shortfall in lecturers, and worsen the financing crisis facing the Higher Education Loans Board, or HELB. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

New initiative to boost African leadership skills

By Michael Gardner. The Global Young Academy, an international society of young scientists, has launched an initiative to support African academics aiming to take leading roles in projects. The Africa Science Leadership Program, or ASLP, will be run by the University of Pretoria in South Africa in partnership with the academy. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

Higher Education Secretary Fioraso resigns

By Jane Marshall. France’s dynamic state secretary for higher education and research, Geneviève Fioraso, has resigned for health reasons. Fioraso’s achievements during her tenure included a major national debate into the future of higher education and research which led to a new framework law.
She was also able to maintain levels of funding and jobs during a time of austerity and cuts in other budgets; simplify processes for first and masters degrees; and launch an ambitious building programme for student housing.
Among her many achievements, she extended student grants, introduced a national ‘student-entrepreneur’ statute, and adopted reforms – opposed by research unions – to increase research competitiveness while working towards bringing universities and the selective grandes écoles closer together – all this while managing a budget of €23 billion [US$25 billion] for more than 200 institutions. Read more...

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