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24 août 2014

Trickle up – Fee deregulation will only benefit elite

By Janice Dudley, The Conversation. Professor Ian Young, chair of the Group of Eight universities, has argued that fee deregulation will have a positive effect on all universities. The Group of Eight universities will take the opportunity to ‘downsize’, to teach fewer students while increasing the amount spent on each student. Read more...

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24 août 2014

Higher education – Vive la technologie?

By Rupert Ward. We live in a world where our lives are being transformed almost daily by technology. In the once hallowed sanctuary of the lecture theatre, a faint hum can now be heard as students busily type notes on their tablet computers. This IT revolution is pounding at the door of higher education across the globe. Read more...

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24 août 2014

The knowledge revolution

By Martin Cohen. "The library is the heart of the university," wrote Charles W Eliot, long-time president of Harvard, in 1873. That the history of academic libraries mirrors the development of higher education is an uncontroversial truth. Which is also why, as university courses start to move online, university libraries have been there some time. Read more...

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24 août 2014

Reform higher education’s old system of privileges

By Yegor Stadny. The last time Ukrainian cities faced occupation and artillery bombing was during World War II. That was until this spring, when Russia annexed Crimea and started to supply rebels who have occupied large cities in the East of Ukraine. This has changed everyday life for millions of Ukrainian citizens, among them thousands of school-leavers who want to enter university. Read more...

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24 août 2014

Rectors’ conference head slams EU funding priorities

By Michael Gardner. A leading German higher education official has spoken out against the European Union’s funding priorities for next year. According to Professor Horst Hippler, president of the German Rectors’ Conference – the Hochschulrektorenkonferenz or HRK – the EU is doing too much for agriculture while neglecting research and innovation. Read more...

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24 août 2014

Urgent calls to close the gap between research and teaching

By Jan Petter Myklebust. There is a risk that higher education in Sweden will collapse, warned University Chancellor Harriet Wallberg in a recent article in Dagens Nyheter. “The widening gap between investment in teaching at basic levels and research is creating ever-more distress,” she wrote. Read more...

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24 août 2014

Cost rise hits students as university fees freeze ends

By Yojana Sharma. A global quality platform to review non-institutional education providers is to be piloted by America’s Council for Higher Education Accreditation and its International Quality Group. The platform is aimed at protecting students and is a response to the explosion of non-traditional provision – including MOOCs – and increasingly international higher education. Read more...

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24 août 2014

Controversial higher education reforms in doubt

By Geoff Maslen. In a universally unpopular budget last May, Australia’s deeply conservative government of Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced savage cuts to federal spending on universities, higher fees for students and a revised loans system that would have imposed increased costs on students. Read more...

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24 août 2014

Lecturers with online skills needed for 2,500 vacancies

By Munyaradzi Makoni. The government of Côte d’Ivoire has launched a campaign to recruit higher education lecturers with online teaching skills to fill an estimated 2,500 vacant posts. Meanwhile, a new institute of nuclear medicine specialising in cancer treatment is due to open by the end of the year in Abidjan.
The Minister for Higher Education and Research Gnamien Konan presided over the National Commission for Recruitment of Higher Education Teachers, or CNRES, at Université Félix Houphouët Boigny d’Abidjan-Cocody, reported L’Intelligent d’Abidjan. Read more...

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24 août 2014

Mentorship portal to deliver market-ready graduates

By Munyaradzi Makoni. A regional platform to train and mentor university graduates could produce highly skilled people who meet the demands of the agriculture industry by 2016. Research to develop the platform, which is being led by Egerton University in Kenya, started in February this year. Read more...

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