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16 novembre 2014

Continental HE challenges identified ahead of summit

By Karen MacGregor. Consultations with stakeholders across Africa have thrown up shared challenges that will be tackled at next year’s major summit on “Revitalising Higher Education for Africa’s Future”, says Dr Omano Edigheji of TrustAfrica, the summit's director. Among the big issues are harmonisation, investment, regulatory frameworks, the private sector, graduate employability and the curriculum. Read more...

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16 novembre 2014

We need to change the language of internationalisation

By Hans de Wit and Elspeth Jones. Reports, documents, communiqués and papers offer a constant flow of writing about the relevance of internationalisation of higher education for the economy and society. These give the impression that higher education leaders and ministers of education are indeed convinced of its value and importance. Read more...

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16 novembre 2014

Budget, administration issues cloud new HE ministry

By Ria Nurdiani. Academics believe that Indonesia’s newly created Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education will have to overcome major budgetary and administrative hurdles before serious work can begin, after the country’s new president, in a surprise move, announced the uncoupling of higher education from the Ministry of Education and Culture. Read more...

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16 novembre 2014

Embrace digital age or face irrelevance – Martin Bean

By Brendan O'Malley. Universities risk becoming irrelevant and irresponsible if they don’t equip staff to deal with the digital age, said Martin Bean, vice-chancellor of the Open University, in the 2014 Sir John Cass’s Foundation Lecture at the Cass Business School in London. Read more...

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16 novembre 2014

Can community action open up universities?

By Ard Jongsma. Community work by university staff and students is often seen as an add-on to academic core business. But can it actually be more than that? Can it help to attract students from traditionally underrepresented groups? Can it bridge the gap between higher education and communities that have traditionally been excluded from it? And can it even benefit the core curriculum?
Those questions will be key parts of the debate as the Talloires Network of 315 engaged universities in 72 countries convenes its 2014 conference in Cape Town early next month. Read more...

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16 novembre 2014

First tuition-free virtual university is ‘illegal’

By Wagdy Sawahel. The so-called ‘Free University of Nigeria’ – popularly known as FUN and described by several reports as Africa's first cloud-based, virtual, tuition-free, not-for-profit university – has turned out to be illegal.
The Free University of Nigeria was being promoted by two websites – one referred to as an e-campus portal and the second on Facebook. On 14 November the Facebook website was operating but the FUN website had been suspended. Read more...

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16 novembre 2014

Vice-chancellors call for stakeholder funding strategy

By Munyaradzi Makoni. South African vice-chancellors have called for a stakeholders’ debate that tackles the enormous challenges of financing student enrolment targets, sustaining student financial aid and releasing adequate funding in the face of tight fiscal demands as the country strives for vastly expanded higher education with equity and quality. Read more...

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16 novembre 2014

Dilapidated universities must be fixed, say officials

By Wachira Kigotho. Economic experts meeting at the 9th Annual African Economic Conference in Addis Ababa have urged African governments to enhance the image of universities by providing high quality infrastructure and facilities that would enable creative and innovative research. Read more...

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16 novembre 2014

Prime ministers debate innovation and higher education

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Prime ministers from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom met in Helsinki on 6-7 November for the fourth Northern Future Forum. The main topics were how to promote the creation of new innovation firms, and how to ensure the competitiveness of the countries’ education systems. Read more...

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16 novembre 2014

Survey debunks Japanese students stay-at-home myth

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. Japanese students are just as interested in overseas study as their counterparts in the United Kingdom and the United States – a finding that pours cold water on the popular theory that Japanese students are averse to study abroad. Read more...

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