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19 octobre 2014

From the margins to the table

By Suellen Shay. I started work on this think-piece with a feeling of disquiet about the title and its metaphors of ‘margins’ and ‘table’. This difficulty with language reminded me of a recent conversation with a potential funder. Their interest was in ‘bridging’ programmes, another metaphor we tend to avoid. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

Roma face deteriorating prospects

By William New. It is always necessary to begin with the question ‘Who are the Roma?’. They are paradoxically the most visible and the most invisible of minority populations. There seem to be ‘gypsies’ everywhere, visible where they are least wanted, and neither the public nor the politicians understand much about where they come from; they only know they’d like their gypsies to disappear.
The situation for Roma students
The current condition for Roma youth across Europe is encapsulated in the phrase ‘social exclusion’. Understanding the provenance of this term is useful in understanding the ‘life world’ of the Roma, because the ways in which the Roma are understood by majority society and policymakers determine to a large extent the possibilities open to them in most government - and even many NGO - policy documents. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

Refugees need access to higher education

By Ita Sheehy. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ 2013 Global Trends Report indicated that the number of refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people worldwide had, for the first time in the post-World War II era, exceeded 50 million. This massive increase was driven both by the war in Syria, which by the end of 2013 had forced 2.5 million people to leave their countries as refugees, and by new displacement in Africa due to new conflicts, notably in the Central African Republic and South Sudan. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

How to revive the California model

By Simon Marginson. Clark Kerr’s multiversity has spread across the world, but at home it is fraying at the edges. A rethink on tuition fees and on the wider benefits of higher education is needed to ensure its model of balancing excellence and access continues to impact international higher education. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

Academic reputation affects citation count

By Geoff Maslen. An academic’s reputation plays a key role in generating increases in a scientific paper’s citation count early in its citation life cycle, before a tipping point, after which his or her reputation has much less influence relative to the paper’s citation count. This is the intriguing finding from a study by a team of collaborating social science analysts in Belgium, Finland, Italy and the US.
Using data compiled by Thomson Reuters Web of Science, the team studied 450 highly cited scientists, nearly 84,000 articles in scientific publication, and 7.6 million citations tracked over the equivalent of 387,000 publication years. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

Making higher education financially sustainable

By Art Hauptman. The biggest issue facing Irish higher education may not be the level of national investment but the mix of public and private funding. Ireland has a modest level of public investment when compared to other OECD countries and a very low level of private investment in the form of privately paid tuition fees. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

University engagement networks go global

By Yojana Sharma. While focused on their own citizens and areas, the growth in regional and national groups means the global network of community-engaged universities is also growing, including the network of networks, known as the Talloires Network which is holding its 2014 Talloires Network Leaders Conference in South Africa from 2-4 December. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

US-based African immigrants more educated

By Wagdy Sawahel. Although the foreign-born population from Africa in the US is small relative to other foreign-born groups, a higher proportion of Africans are graduates than the overall foreign-born population and their numbers have grown rapidly over the past 40 years.
This was outlined in a US Census Bureau report, The foreign-born population from Africa: 2008-2012. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

Open access for multi-disciplinary journals

A Polish entrepreneur and data scientist, Marcin Wojnarski, has launched what he says is the first multi-disciplinary aggregator of open access journals and papers. Wojnarski says that his firm, Paperity, will connect authors with readers, boost dissemination of new discoveries and consolidate academia around open literature.
The company holds more than 160,000 articles from 2,000 scholarly journals and the number is growing. Wojnarski says the goal of his team is to cover 100% of open access literature in three years. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

Anger rises over government vocational directive

By Gilbert Nganga. A showdown is looming in Kenya’s higher education system following a government directive that universities should stop offering diploma and certificate courses from next year.
Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi gave the order last week, saying such courses should be left to technical and tertiary colleges. Read more...

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