By Karen MacGregor. A new scholar exchange initiative offering 100 fellowships to African-born academics living in North America, to work in and forge research partnerships with African universities, has been launched by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The ambitious aim is “to turn the continent’s ‘brain drain’ into ‘brain gain’”...By Eugene Vorotnikov. The Russian government is hoping to attract the country’s major industrial companies to invest in establishing higher education institutions and chairs in top universities, to prepare highly skilled employees and produce research for their sectors.By David Jobbins. Students attending universities at greater risk of institutional failure in the post-White Paper higher education market in the United Kingdom need an insurance scheme to protect them from the consequences, the Higher Education Commission said last week.By Mimi Leung. With ‘surplus’ universities and schools being encouraged to shut down or merge due to Taiwan’s demographic downturn, the government has said that private institutions should not be allowed to profiteer from selling land designated for educational use. By Geoff Maslen. Four of the world’s major research university groups released a joint statement in China on 10 October outlining the characteristics of contemporary research universities as the next step towards establishing an international network of the four associations.By Alan Osborn. A major international survey of education standards has found serious skills weaknesses in European Union countries when compared to levels in other parts of the developed world.By Karen MacGregor. A new British Council report has predicted that there will be 3.8 million mobile higher education students globally by 2024, up from just over three million two years ago. India and China will contribute 35% of the global growth in international students.By Alan Osborn. At the 5th European Innovation Summit, big names in research agreed that it was high time for a ‘wake up Europe’ call. A five-point declaration addressed to European Union policy-makers and member states was agreed after several speakers sought to identify ways to remove obstacles in the way of Europe becoming a successful innovation economy. Read more...
Par . Les MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses sont les prémices d’une révolution dans l’enseignement et l’acquisition de savoirs mais sans qu’on sache encore trop ce qu’il faut prendre ou laisser, quelle partie des promesses est valide ou pas.
Ce n’est donc que l’expérimentation qui permettra de recadrer, affiner, progresser. Et justement, les expérimentations se multiplient avec leur réussites et leurs échecs. La dernière en date dont je voulais parler vient de l’université d’Etat de San Jose (San Jose State University – SJSU) aux Etats-Unis. L’Université avait annoncé en février qu’elle allait démarrer un MOOC sur la plateforme Udacity, une intiative qui avait d’autant plus attiré l’attention qu’il s’agissait de cours permettant l’obtention de crédits. Une partie d’un cursus diplômant pour lequel des gens avaient payé. Du très sérieux donc. Suite de l'article...
By Dileep Rao. The structure of entrepreneurial education seems to be based on an assumption that entrepreneurs need venture capital for growth. Accordingly many business schools organize business plan competitions; conduct shark tanks with mentors, angels and VCs; teach venture-capital financing; and lead students in the direction of capital intensity.
But is this the right direction? Is this hurting job creation and new enterprise development? With apologies to Tennessee Williams, should universities make their students dependent on advice from mentors and on money from strangers? More...
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