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9 juin 2014

With more international students come retention issues

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By Karin Fischer, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Like many American colleges, the University of West Florida has seen marked growth in recent years in its international student enrolment. But it was a different trend that alarmed Rachel Errington, director of the university’s office of international students. The number of foreign students leaving the public institution on Florida’s Gulf Coast without earning a degree was also on the rise. Read more...

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9 juin 2014

Changing power relations in research management

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Mass participation in higher education has changed how research management is delivered around the world – and leadership approaches have also transformed in order to match more diverse universities and their challenges. Read more...

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9 juin 2014

Great need for capacity building in research management

By Sharon Dell. Professor Molly Lee’s impressive academic and professional résumé belies a refreshingly down-to-earth approach to issues of higher education. “I feel strongly about two things,” she told me over a quick working lunch between expert roundtable sessions in Durban. “One is the importance of underlying values in education; the other is the importance of indigenous knowledge systems.” Read more...

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9 juin 2014

Universities respond to a changing landscape

By Munyaradzi Makoni. New forces such as economic globalisation and information and communication technologies are shaping universities and research institutions and corresponding operational governance is required, says Professor Leo Goedegebuure, director of the LH Martin Institute at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Read more...

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9 juin 2014

Benchmarking research leadership and management

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Universities generate and transmit new knowledge. The first group of participants in an executive leadership training programme offered by experts from Australia were told that to do this well, top level research leadership skills and management are required. Read more...

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9 juin 2014

No shortcuts to development, basic research is key

By Sharon Dell. The notion that the innovation capabilities of developing economies can ‘leap-frog’ and catch up with developed countries without an investment in basic research is an unfortunate but persistent view, which is likely to prolong dependency on external agencies, according to Venni V Krishna, professor of science policy at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Read more...

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9 juin 2014

More research needed on research management

By Sharon Dell. Rather than mimicking ‘best practice’ of top-performing institutions, universities aspiring to the status of research institutions in low- and middle-income countries need to invest more heavily in understanding their own institutional profiles and develop a vision of what it means to be a research university in their national context. Professor Nico Cloete, director of the Cape Town-based Centre for Higher Education Transformation, said this at an expert roundtable held at the launch of the Research, Higher Education, Development and Innovation – RHEDI – project in Durban in May. Read more...

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9 juin 2014

Disseminating research policy knowledge to global South

By Sharon Dell. Although recognised as the basis for a knowledge economy, research is an expensive undertaking, often with uncertain outcomes. Thus its management is a growing area of focus for policy-makers around the world who are faced, inter alia, with two key issues: how to set priorities for the research agenda in the context of finite resources and competing demands; and how to evaluate the impact of that research. Read more...

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9 juin 2014

Research management – A question of balance?

By Sharon Dell. Is ‘research management’ an oxymoron? – A concept that pits researchers against administrators and threatens to kill the goose that lays the golden egg? Or is it a realistic response to a world in which national wealth is based on knowledge production and the ability to effectively participate in global market networks?
Increasingly, it is the latter: research management throughout the world has become far more professionalised and specialised, with greater emphasis on strategic research planning and research accountability. Read more...

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9 juin 2014

Government and foundation boosts for research

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Sweden’s government is to invest SEK1.6 billion (US$240 million) over the next 10 years in the city of Södertälje, in research and training in medicine and engineering, said Education Minister Jan Björklund last Monday. The next day the Wallenberg Foundation outlined plans to invest a whopping SEK1.7 billion so “Swedish medical research can regain its world leading position”. Read more...

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