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1 décembre 2014

Transnational recruitment vital for many universities

By Nic Mitchell. A number of English universities are increasingly reliant on recruiting international students through transnational education programmes, according to a new report from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, or HEFCE. Read more...

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1 décembre 2014

A Siberian university aims to become a global player

By Stephen Hoare. The first higher education institution east of the Urals, Tomsk State University was founded in 1878 to extend the Tsarist empire’s grasp on Siberia’s tribal lands.
The university’s expertise in engineering, mineralogy and geology provided the skills to unlock Siberia’s enormous, untapped oil and mineral wealth. Read more...

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1 décembre 2014

Need to upgrade universities and research as R&D heads East

By Yojana Sharma. Asian economies have surged ahead and demand for higher education from a rapidly growing middle-class has fuelled expansion. But the region’s universities and research need to upgrade to keep up with economic changes that include the global shift of industries, research and development to Asia, a regional symposium of research management experts heard. Read more...

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1 décembre 2014

Initiative to help graduates’ transition to workforce

By Yojana Sharma. Reeta Roy is president of the Toronto-based MasterCard Foundation, which has assets of over US$3 billion and more than 35 partnerships with universities and other organisations, funding programmes in areas such as microfinance and youth learning. One is the Youth Economic Participation Initiative – YEPI – with the global Talloires Network of engaged universities, which supports initiatives that help graduates' transition to the workforce. YOJANA SHARMA spoke to her before the Talloires Network Leaders Conference. Read more...

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1 décembre 2014

University engagement – Perspectives from the global South

By Karen MacGregor. The Talloires Network Leaders Conference in Cape Town next week will provide a rare opportunity for universities in developing and emerging countries to highlight their experiences and views, said Professor Nieves Tapia, director of the Latin American Centre for Service-learning based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Read more...

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1 décembre 2014

Measures to build entrepreneurship education in HE

By Wagdy Sawahel. African universities must forge partnerships with counterparts in industrialised nations and work to create and sustain entrepreneurship and enterprise development by equipping graduates with the skills needed to identify new business opportunities and to start up companies, or with the qualifications required by employers.
This was the main message from the 3rd annual conference, "Universities, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa”, held on 14 November in Rheinbach, Germany. Read more...

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1 décembre 2014

Upgrade university teaching, says Quality Commission

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Denmark’s Quality Commission has published its second report on the quality of university education. It calls on students to drop jobs and work full-time on their studies, and says that while Danish research is world-class, teaching at universities is not.
The report, Higher Objectives: Excellent teaching in higher education, which uses surveys extensively, also proposes that lecturers interact more with students in future. Read more...

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1 décembre 2014

Merger will give top London universities added clout

By Shelagh McLoughlin. Two top British universities will join forces next week in a bid to become even more competitive on a global scale. University College London and the Institute of Education announced that they are merging from 2 December, a move that will create a new institution with more than 35,000 students. Read more...

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1 décembre 2014

Modernising higher education through distance learning

By Lucy Hodges. Belarus is forming partnerships with countries around the world to offer distance learning courses, and thereby to modernise its economy and higher education system. Read more...

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1 décembre 2014

Grand plan to set up 20 more public universities

By Gilbert Nganga. Kenya is planning to set up at least 20 new public universities, as it seeks to devolve education to counties that currently have no institution of higher learning. Read more...

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