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28 septembre 2014

Linking internationalisation and research productivity

By Marek Kwiek. The research productivity of Polish academics is strongly linked to international collaboration. The average productivity of Polish academics involved in international collaboration – ‘internationalists’ – is consistently higher than the rate of Polish ‘locals’ in all academic fields. Read more...

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28 septembre 2014

Post-2015 European support to African HE taking shape

By Ard Jongsma. From 2015, the European Union’s new Pan-African Programme will be used to expand and extend the coverage of its Tuning Africa project and a new, linked initiative, to more broadly support quality assurance and accreditation in Africa. Read more...

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28 septembre 2014

African higher education space another step closer

By Ard Jongsma. Positive tones emerged from the 6th International Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Africa, held in Bujumbura, Burundi. As the quality of African higher education remains under severe pressure, the need for quality assurance mechanisms and institutions now appears to have been universally embraced. Read more...

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28 septembre 2014

Progress, problems with researcher mobility in Europe

By Karen MacGregor. There has been significant progress in alleviating obstacles to mobility for researchers in Europe – but advances have been uneven and challenges remain in some countries in the areas of recruitment, researcher skills, working conditions and career opportunities – says a Deloitte Consulting report prepared for the European Commission. Read more...

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28 septembre 2014

National university rankings to include social contribution

By Yojana Sharma. India’s prestigious institutes of technology, or IITs, will spearhead a national system of university rankings, drawing up relevant parameters even though they are not themselves universities, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani announced last week at a meeting of IIT heads in Chennai. Read more...

By Dan Berrett, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Student course evaluations are often misused statistically and shed little light on the quality of teaching, two scholars at the University of California at Berkeley argue in the draft of a new paper. "We’re confusing consumer satisfaction with product value," Philip B Stark, a professor of statistics at Berkeley, said in an interview. Read more...

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28 septembre 2014

Scholars take aim at student evaluations’ ‘air of objectivity’

By Dan Berrett, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Student course evaluations are often misused statistically and shed little light on the quality of teaching, two scholars at the University of California at Berkeley argue in the draft of a new paper. "We’re confusing consumer satisfaction with product value," Philip B Stark, a professor of statistics at Berkeley, said in an interview. Read more...

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28 septembre 2014

Economic crisis sparks increase in student volunteers

By Paul Rigg. Fifty-five percent of people in charge of social action in Spanish universities say that the economic crisis has provoked a growth in student volunteering, according to initial reports from a study being published next week by the Fundación Mutua Madrileña. Read more...

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28 septembre 2014

Higher education and the post-2015 development goals – UNESCO

By Wachira Kigotho. In a new briefing report, UNESCO has identified tertiary education as a fundamental element towards progress in each of 16 proposed post-2015 global sustainable development goals.
According to the report, Sustainable Development Post-2015 Begins with Education, higher education is intertwined with the suggested global development targets that will replace the current United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals when they expire next year. Read more...

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28 septembre 2014

Employment prospects rosier for Erasmus graduates

By Peta Lee. The findings of The Erasmus Impact Study, released last Monday, are indisputable – young people who study or train abroad are half as likely to face long-term unemployment as their non-mobile peers. And five years after graduation, the jobless rate of these students is an impressive 23% lower. Read more...

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28 septembre 2014

To fee or not to fee in Erasmus Mundus collaborations?

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Whether Swedish students may be charged fees for courses that are part of international collaborations involving several universities across countries – many of which themselves levy fees – has been tying Sweden with its free higher education in knots. The government has proposed a law specifying when a study fee should not be regarded as a student fee. Read more...

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