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13 octobre 2013

Understanding the pros and cons of academic inbreeding

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By Hugo Horta. Academic inbreeding is a socially charged phrase, with its etymological origins in the biological sciences. It may be argued that the naming of the phenomenon is unfortunate; nonetheless it is how this institutional practice is recognised around the globe, although in some places it is also known as institutional inbreeding. It is perceived as damaging to academia. Read more...

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13 octobre 2013

Time for a global movement for higher education access

By Graeme Atherton. It is almost universally accepted that participation in higher education across the world will grow exponentially in the next 20 years. The OECD predicts that there will be more than 400 million students in tertiary education by 2030. What is less clear is who these students will be, what backgrounds they will come from and whether the historical patterns of inequality in higher education participation will be in any way reduced by this expansion or will worsen. Read more...

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13 octobre 2013

Missing the point of transnational education

By Vincenzo Raimo. The UK’s Department of Trade and Industry's Education UK Unit was recently established to support the delivery of the Industrial Strategy for Education of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, or BIS. It is in addition to the International Unit located within Universities UK, also in part funded by BIS, and the British Council’s own relatively new Transnational Education Service, which “aims to help institutions develop and effectively market international programmes". Read more...

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13 octobre 2013

International student recruitment via informed choice

By Rahul Choudaha. Higher education institutions are increasingly expected to make tough, strategic choices to achieve their internationalisation goals in a cost-effective manner. For example, in the field of international student recruitment, institutions are often confronted with questions like: which countries and cities should we prioritise in terms of our recruitment efforts? Which segment of students should we recruit? Which recruitment channels should we use?
However, institutions unfortunately often lack the data or evidence that is necessary to make informed decisions. In a recent survey, chief financial officers of universities acknowledged that their institutions "did not have the data or the information to make informed decisions in key areas". Read more...

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13 octobre 2013

Strategies needed to widen student access and success

By Peta Lee. An international study into higher education participation has revealed unequal representation across socio-economic groups in several countries. The review of six nations will inform an access and student success strategy being developed for England, and among other things recommends alternative entry requirements and bridging programmes, and more inclusive learning and teaching.
The study report, International Research on the Effectiveness of Widening Participation, also uncovers participation disparities relating to the reputation and prestige of institutions – degree types offered, research and teaching focus, and the type and length of programmes. Read more...

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13 octobre 2013

Collaboration increasing with 'growth countries'

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The appeal of Denmark as a destination for international students is steadily growing as collaboration and exchange increase between the country’s universities and higher education institutions abroad. Now the government is turning its attention to ‘growth countries’.
Thanks to the Danish Higher Education Ministry’s plan to increase internationalisation, and its focus on growing the numbers of exchange students, there’s been a marked surge in cross-country studies.
The ministry said it had now mapped out cooperation between Danish universities and colleges and in nine ‘growth countries’. Read more...

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13 octobre 2013

Migration and brain drain from Africa acute – Report

By Wachira Kigotho. One in every nine people who are born in Africa and have a university degree is a migrant in one of the 34 member states of the OECD – the world’s most developed countries.
According to a joint report on global migration released by the United Nations' Department of Economic and Social Affairs, or UN DESA, and the OECD secretariat, there are about 30 million African migrants out of the global total of 232 million migrants. Read more...

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13 octobre 2013

New biometric technology for global English testing

IELTS, the International English Language Testing System and the world’s most popular English language test for higher education, has introduced biometric measures – including finger scans – to verify the identity of test takers.
Worldwide, more than 8,000 education institutions, governments, professional registration bodies and employers use IELTS to provide measurement of English language proficiency. Read more...

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13 octobre 2013

Earnings gap narrows, but higher education still pays

By Justin Doubleday, The Chronicle of Higher Education. The earnings gap in the United States between young college graduates and their peers with only high school diplomas has narrowed slightly in recent years. But adults with bachelor degrees still make significantly more over their careers, according to a report released last Monday by the College Board. The expansive triennial report, Education Pays 2013: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society, examines the value of higher education in both financial and non-financial terms. Read more...

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13 octobre 2013

Research ‘space’ for Western Mediterranean, Maghreb

By Wagdy Sawahel. Member states of the 5+5 Dialogue initiative, a sub-regional forum for dialogue including five countries of the Arab Maghreb Union and five countries of the Western Mediterranean, have agreed to set up a ‘space’ for research and innovation to promote cooperation in science, technology and higher education.
The Maghreb countries involved are Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia, and the Western Mediterranean nations are France, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain.
The new initiative was outlined in a ‘Rabat Declaration’, which was endorsed at the first conference of ministers of higher education and research of the 5+5 Dialogue states, held in Rabat, Morocco, from 20 to 21 September. The conference was organised by Morocco’s Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Training. Read more...

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