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25 août 2013

Addicted to success

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By Igrene Ogrizek. In the summer of 2011, a Dutch social psychologist was in the process of losing his job. His name was Diederik Stapel and he had committed an unimaginable fraud: over 10 years he had falsified data for more than 55 experiments, some of which formed the basis of doctoral theses he had supervised. Stapel was a researcher who studied ‘priming’, the influence exerted on individuals by suggestive information. He was most interested in its effects on self-assessment: his doctoral thesis focused on whether we assimilate or contrast when primed with information. More...

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25 août 2013

Do partnerships advance internationalisation?

By Anna Ciccarelli and Grant Kennett. It is taken for granted that cross-border university partnerships and agreements work to advance the cause of internationalisation and bring significant opportunities and benefits to students, researchers and administrators. We argue for a different approach. Certainly agreements can create opportunities and might very well bring enormous benefit, but they are not fated to do so. In some cases agreements will not produce high-level engagement despite best efforts; agreement champions move away, research interests diverge, institutional priorities shift, funding diminishes. More...

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25 août 2013

Tackling the remedial classes problem

By William Patrick Leonard. In my previous blog, I suggested that the United States’ regional accrediting organisations could help resolve the unfortunate misalignment between the bulk of the nation’s secondary schools and tertiary institutions. Secondary school students are graduating with relatively high grade point averages, or GPAs. Presumably, they should be better prepared for the rigours of tertiary curricula. Unfortunately, this presumption has not been validated on their admission to tertiary institutions. More...

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25 août 2013

New higher education initiatives planned

By Wagdy Sawahel. Tunisia plans to establish a higher education council and a university ‘pole of excellence’ in the Tunisian-Algerian border zone, in an effort to come up with policies and strategies to tackle higher education challenges, stem the brain drain and boost regional cooperation. The initiatives were announced during an official ceremony marking Knowledge Day last month. The higher education council will prepare an action plan and strategies for reform, and will help to establish a space for consultation between senior executives of stakeholder ministries and groups, including academics from universities and technology institutes. More...

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25 août 2013

As degree mills proliferate, new measures published

By Hiep Pham. The arrest of four people on charges of selling fake diplomas, including three in Can Tho in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam, has highlighted the proliferation of degree mills. Racketeers have been shifting from producing fake Vietnamese qualifications to degrees from prestigious international universities. Last month new decrees were announced, aimed at strengthening official procedures for recognising genuine degrees from overseas universities. But there is still concern that the government is not going far enough to control the lucrative business. More...

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25 août 2013

Top universities break rules on gender discrimination

By Yojana Sharma. Around two-thirds of China’s top research universities still have policies that can be used to limit the proportion of women students, despite tighter government regulations issued this year against gender discrimination in universities and the workplace. In some regions the proportion of female university students has been rising year on year, particularly in cities like Beijing and Chongqing. But some of the best universities have not abandoned restrictions on the proportion of women for some subjects. More...

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Tags: Asie-Pacifique, discriminations

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25 août 2013

Damning HE council report on university performance

By David Macfarlane. Less than 5% of black African and mixed-race youth succeed at university, and more than half of all first-year entrants never graduate at all. This was revealed in a hard-hitting report released by the Council on Higher Education (CHE) last Tuesday. Poor academic preparation at school is "the dominant learning-related reason" for poor university performance – but there is "no prospect" that the schooling sector will be able to produce the numbers of adequately prepared matriculants that higher education requires in the foreseeable future. More...

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25 août 2013

Thousands lose university places under new system

By Fortune Sylivester. More than 5,000 prospective students will not join universities this year after failing to follow new procedures laid down by the Tanzania Commission for Universities, or TCU. Others were unable to access the Central Admission System, according to the commission. It is also believed that some prospective students failed to apply for university because they did not have the money, while others could not access the internet. In June this year, the TCU advertised that Tanzanians who wished to join universities would be required to pay a non-refundable application fee of TSh50,000 (US$30), payable through National Bank of Commerce branches countrywide. More...

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25 août 2013

Countries haggle over huge SKA telescope costs

By Ishmael Tongai. South African politicians were told last week that tricky and extended negotiations were under way to work out how much each country involved in the first-phase construction of the massive Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, radio telescope will have to fork out. Bernie Fanaroff, SKA South Africa’s project director, told members of parliament's science and technology portfolio committee last Wednesday that the major current issue was how to fund phase one of the project, which is expected to cost €650 million – US$868 million and about R8.9 billion in local currency. More...

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Tags: recherche

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25 août 2013

Wits drive to lure top African postgraduate students

By Ishmael Tongai. The University of the Witwatersrand has set aside R90 million (US$8.7 million) for bursaries as the institution embarks on an intensive drive to attract the finest postgraduate students from across South Africa and Africa. The goal is to enrol 35% of all students at the postgraduate level. A team that includes 10 academics and support staff kicked off the campaign this month starting in Johannesburg then moving to Stellenbosch last week. Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria will follow in the search by the University of the Witwatersrand, or Wits, for top students. More...

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