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11 janvier 2015

Is your international enrolment strategy sustainable?

By Rahul Choudaha. In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008, analysts urged corporate leaders to shift focus from short-term, quarterly results to long-term gains. But that advice has gone largely unheeded. Read more...
11 janvier 2015

Big data scientists face ethical challenges after Facebook study

By Paul Voosen, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Though it may not feel like it when you see the latest identity-affirming listicle, or article structured in the form of a list, shared by a friend on Facebook, we are a society moving toward evidence. Our world is ever more quantified, and with such data, flawed or not, the tools of science are more widely applied to our decisions. We can do more than observe our lives, the idea goes. We can experiment on them. Read more...
11 janvier 2015

Peshawar attack spreads fear in higher education

By Zofeen T Ebrahim. Schools and universities in Pakistan closed early and delayed their reopening until this week over security fears after the Taliban attack on a Peshawar school on 16 December, with many remaining closed until mid-January. But students and academics are questioning whether they will be any safer when they open. Read more...
11 janvier 2015

Tajiks turn to Hollywood to push English

By Nick Holdsworth. Tajikistan’s state broadcaster has started airing Hollywood and Bollywood movies without dubbing or subtitles in an attempt to improve English language learning among school and university students in the Central Asian country. Read more...
11 janvier 2015

Amendment expected to improve government cooperation

By Michael Gardner. Germany’s Upper House has approved a constitutional amendment allowing for more cooperation between the country’s federal and state governments in higher education and research matters, including more federal funding of research facilities. Read more...
11 janvier 2015

Less privileged students shine at university

By Geoff Maslen. An ever-increasing proportion of Australian parents spend hundreds of thousands of dollars every year enrolling their offspring in expensive private schools in the belief this will boost their academic performance and their chances of going on to university. Read more...
11 janvier 2015

Excellence schemes ‘should be risking-taking’: EUA

By Nic Mitchell. The European University Association, or EUA, has called on higher education institutions to foster ‘risk-taking’ in their approach to ‘Excellence’ initiatives, in a new report examining ten national schemes across the continent.
The report, Funding for Excellence, looks at higher education ‘excellence schemes’ and their impact on universities in Europe. Read more...
11 janvier 2015

Restrictions on collaboration are ‘hindering’ international research

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. Japan lags behind the United States and the United Kingdom in international research and is being held back by a system that restricts international collaboration and focuses on supporting research for the domestic market, experts said at a recent seminar in Tokyo. Read more...
11 janvier 2015

Plan to send non-EU international graduates home blocked

By David Jobbins. UK Home Secretary Theresa May has been forced to back down on a plan to require all non-EU international students to leave the country on graduation and to apply for new visas if they intend to work in Britain, according to reports in the media. Read more...
11 janvier 2015

Terror attack spreads fear far and beyond the intended target

By Brendan O’Malley – Managing Editor. Welcome to our first edition of 2015. In Features, Zofeen Ebrahim reports that in Pakistan, as schools and universities prepare to reopen after extended closure following the Peshawar attack, students and academics are asking ‘will they be safe?’
In our World Blog, Rahoul Chahouda asks if universities’ strategies for recruiting international students are sustainable.
In Commentary, Jiang Bo and Robert Coelen argue that China is set for a rapid expansion of internationalisation. Marguerite Dennis explores how universities could do more to prepare students for the job market, and Frances Saunders examines UK initiatives to tackle gender bias in physics.
Goolam Mohamedbhai argues that universities should integrate sustainable development into their teaching, research and activities.
In a Special Report this week, we cover the launch of the third phase of HERANA – the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa – and look at findings so far from analysis of data collected over six years at flagship universities in eight African countries, as Karen MacGregor reports. Read more...
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