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21 septembre 2014

On False Binaries, Walled Gardens, and Moneyball

By Michael Feldstein. D’Arcy Norman started a lively inter-blog conversation like we haven’t seen in the edublogosphere in quite a while with his post on the false binary between LMS and open. His main point is that, even if you think that the open web provides a better learning environment, an LMS provides a better-than-nothing learning environment for faculty who can’t or won’t go through the work of using open web tools, and in some cases may be perfectly adequate for the educational need at hand. More...

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21 septembre 2014

Akademische Nomaden

Von Christoph Drösser. Sieben Studienorte in vier Jahren. In San Francisco startet die erste Eliteuni, die nur online lehrt von Christoph Drösser. Eine Studentin wie Alisha Frederiksson wünscht sich wohl jede Universität. Die 19-Jährige wurde in Ungarn geboren, der Vater ist Schwede, die Mutter Chinesin. Sie ging im kanadischen Vancouver zur Schule, ihren Abschluss machte sie im indischen Pune, wo sie die letzten beiden Schuljahre am internationalen United World College verbrachte. Mehr...

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21 septembre 2014

Education at a Glance – 2014 edition published last week!

By Hedda. The newest edition of OECDs annual educational statistics – Education at a Glance – was published last week on 9th of September 2014. The data is organised around some of the key topics in current debates about education – focused on educational attainment, employability, rates of return of education and fee payment. See more...

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21 septembre 2014

The Social Dimension in European Higher Education

By Hedda. The conference The Social Dimension in European Higher Education” will be held in Vienna (Austria), on February 25-27, 2015. The conference aims at creating a discursive forum for peer learning in the field of the social dimension, fostering interchange between 3 spheres involved with this, including researchers, policymakers and practitioners. See more...

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21 septembre 2014

STEM research drives top achievers in latest QS World Uni Ranking

By Amy Baker. The 10th annual world league table of top universities as ranked by the QS Intelligence Unit, a reputed division of the global education firm, has been published with a familiar UK and US dominance and a message that it is high-impact scientific and technological research driving the elite institutions such as MIT in the USA (in first position), University of Cambridge and Imperial College London (in joint second). More...

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21 septembre 2014

NACAC publishes guide on how to work with agents

By Amy Baker. The US association which represents 14,000 members, and whose position on the use of international education agents in US HE became an international fixation, has published a guide that is designed to help its members navigate the often-unknown waters of engaging education agencies overseas. More...

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21 septembre 2014

Morocco’s Minister of Higher Education: Students Must Master English to Access Science Universities

By Larbi Arbaoui. After various statements made by Lahcen Daoudi, Minister of Higher Education, in which he highlighted the importance of English for students aspiring to build a bright future, the Moroccan official has reportedly signed a circular making it obligatory for scientific students to master English language before they can be admitted in science Universities.
According to Radio Deluxe, Lahcen Daoudi said “I just signed a circular and all those who do not master English will no longer have access to scientific, technical and economic universities starting from January 1, 2015.” More...

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21 septembre 2014

How do UK home students feel about international students?

By Zainab Malik. International students make a vital academic, economic and cultural contribution to the UK’s higher education sector, but whose responsibility is it to make them feel welcome? The British Council’s Zainab Malik writes about our research on the matter, released today. More...

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21 septembre 2014

What makes a global top 10 university?

By Sean Coughlan. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is in first place in the latest league table of the world's best universities. It's the third year in a row that the US university, famous for its science and technology research, has been top of the QS World University Rankings. More...

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21 septembre 2014

Researchers Try to Save Some Middle-Eastern Languages From Extinction

By Benjamin Plackett - Al-Fanar. Language is arguably the most universally important of human abilities, making it possible to pass on information and experiences like a baton through generations.
But about half of the 7,000 languages spoken around the world will not last the end of this century, according to the latest predictions. There is no single cause for the extinction of a language. Some of the common causes are the overbearing dominance of a few languages, such as Arabic, French and English, the social stigmas attached to using minority languages and the disruption of traditional ways of life. More...

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