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1 février 2015

Going Global 2015: Internationalisation of HE a key driver in Southeast Asia

The drive for economic harmonisation and development in Southeast Asia and its impact on internationalisation in universities will be one of the key trends discussed at this year’s Going Global conference in London.
This year will see the establishment of a common market across the ten countries which make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN, based on four pillars including the free flow of goods, services, investment and skilled labour. Read more...

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1 février 2015

Challenges for UK researchers of Latin America

The Report on the state of UK-based research on Latin America and the Caribbean, says that aspects of Latin America are now studied at postgraduate and undergraduate level in a vastly increased range of departments, centres and institutions than was the case in the 1960s. Read more...

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1 février 2015

University financing crisis as student loans shrink

By Gilbert Nganga. For Dennis Mwangi, the excitement of being a freshman quickly dissipated after he arrived at the University of Nairobi last month. The orphaned top performer from a sleepy village in central Kenya had to go without money due to delays in the disbursement of student loans – and when the money finally hit his account, it was much lower than applied for or expected. Read more...

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1 février 2015

One in two IT staff excluded from transnational education

Almost half of IT staff in British higher education are not involved in the delivery of transnational education programmes overseas by their own institutions, despite technology being integral to universities delivering teaching and qualifications to students in other countries, says a new report. Read more...

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1 février 2015

Universities warned against adopting taught doctorates

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The declaration set out nine points, which describe the aims of doctoral training as being to qualify for research careers in science, academia, the economy and society in general “by original research and documented by a dissertation”.
It states that doctoral training should not be seen as an additional study cycle, that courses in transferable skills should be selected by doctoral candidates on their own and that the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System, or ECTS, was not required. Read more...

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1 février 2015

Elite graduate school to put English in entry exams

By Barbara Casassus. The often-maligned French graduate school for top civil servants, the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, or ENA, is on track to introduce English into the competitive entrance exam in 2018, director Nathalie Loiseau said last Wednesday. Read more...

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1 février 2015

Board vote could trigger historic wave of university mergers

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The Board of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, or NTNU, has agreed to a merger with three university colleges creating the largest university in the country, potentially triggering a wave of mergers elsewhere. Read more...

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1 février 2015

Top firms donate 'too little' to higher education – UNESCO

By Wachira Kigotho. The Fortune Global 500 companies spend less than 5% of their combined budget for corporate social responsibility activities on higher education, according to a study by the Varkey Foundation and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO.
The report, Business Backs Education, which is the world’s first comprehensive study into global corporate expenditure on education, found less than half of the Fortune Global 500 spend on higher education. Read more...

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1 février 2015

Regional hub planned to lure African and Arab students

By Wagdy Sawahel. Egypt is planning a fourfold increase in the enrolment of Arab and African students in higher education institutions in the next three years – from 53,000 to 200,000 international students
This initiative was highlighted in a new international student recruitment strategy approved by the Supreme Council of Universities – the body responsible for the planning, coordination and supervision of universities in Egypt – on 25 January, according to the Ministry of Higher Education. Read more...

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1 février 2015

Presidents to attend African Higher Education Summit

By Karen MacGregor. There will be at least four African presidents, three former heads of state, numerous cabinet ministers, the chair of the African Union Commission and a former United Nations secretary-general among the 500 people who will attend the first African Higher Education Summit, to be held in the Senegalese capital Dakar from 10-12 March, it was announced last week. Read more...

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