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3 novembre 2014

Japan struggles to keep up as China woos international students

By Teru Clavel. Japan’s efforts to increase the number of international students coming to its shores are being dwarfed by similar initiatives in neighboring China. Lofty goals such as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plan to attract 300,000 foreign students by 2020 appear to be struggling to gain traction. More...

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3 novembre 2014

University of Sydney vice-chancellor says fee deregulation will create more scholarships

By James Glenday. The University of Sydney says nearly a third of its domestic undergraduate students will get scholarships if the proposed shake-up of higher education passes the Senate, giving universities the power to set fees. An average three-year degree at some prestigious institutions might soon cost about $48,000, a big increase compared with the current price of many degrees. More...

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3 novembre 2014

Varsities urged to produce workers, not thinkers

The increased number of jobless youths in East Africa will continue to double or even triple annually to alarming rates, unless institutions of higher learning revise their curriculum to start teaching on-the-job skills as opposed to academic-based programmes.
Vice Chancellors and top professors from the academic fields attending a regional conference on education that kicked off in Kigali on Thursday have been told it is the only sure way of ensuring graduates don’t spend years looking for jobs before most of them lose hope and resort to menial jobs and others get into crime. More...

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3 novembre 2014

Student visa rules condemned by employers

By Sean Coughlan. A business leader has accused some MPs of "cheap and pathetic gestures" in their approach to student visas.
Simon Walker, director-general of the Institute of Directors, said he was "appalled" by how overseas students had been caught up in targets for reducing immigration into the UK. More...

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3 novembre 2014

Come clean on graduate jobs rate, unis told

By Lamphai Intathep. Universities have been asked to disclose graduate employment rates for fields of study as they launch recruitment drives, to better align supply of graduates with market demand. Krissanapong Kirtikara, newly-appointed deputy education minister overseeing higher education, said too many students are entering fields of study where the supply of graduates already exceeds demand. More...

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3 novembre 2014

Doctoral examination – What works?

By Terence Lovat. Last week I gave a talk to members of the Society for Research into Higher Education in London. The talk was titled “Consistency and Disjunction between the Assumptions about and Reality of the Doctorate: Examining the examination process and the question of the viva”. Read more...

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3 novembre 2014

Fighting the entitlement mentality in US universities

By William Patrick Leonard. The financial crisis that settled on the American tertiary community in 2008 continues to be cited as a primary factor in the decline of state subsidies to public institutions and the subsequent offsetting increase in their tuition fees. Read more...

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3 novembre 2014

Africa's first tuition-free virtual university

By Wagdy Sawahel. Africa's first cloud-based, virtual and tuition-free, not-for-profit university will open on 12 January next year. Called the Free University of Nigeria, popularly known as FUN, it will be dedicated to increasing access to higher education.
FUN is the world's second of its type after the University of the People opened in the United States. Read more...

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3 novembre 2014

Measures needed to improve higher education financing

By Wagdy Sawahel. Although the higher education systems of North African countries followed European – French and English – policies and offered education at all levels for free, growing demand and limited public funds have forced countries to recover some costs from students. This has lead to steady growth in the cost of university in the past decade. Read more...

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3 novembre 2014

Degree costs eased by government financial assistance

By John Gerritsen. Fees vary by institutions and subject in New Zealand’s eight universities. Generally, undergraduates expect to pay about NZ$5,000 (US$3,930) a year to study the humanities, NZ$6,000 for commerce and law, and more than NZ$7,000 for architecture and engineering. On top of that are student service levies of as much as NZ$700. Read more...

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