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7 juillet 2013

Postgrad support boosted as numbers fall

By John Morgan. The government has announced a fund worth up to £125 million to support disadvantaged students into further study, as a new report reveals postgraduate numbers fell last year. The Department for Business Innovation and Skills and the Higher Education Funding Council for England said today that an initial £25 million fund will distribute grants of between £500,000 and £3 million to universities and colleges to attract and support disadvantaged students into postgraduate study. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Graduate vacancies at five-year high, suggests research

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By Judith Burns. Graduate vacancies at major UK employers are at their highest since 2008, new research suggests.
The UK's 100 "leading employers" have 4.6% more jobs for new graduates than in 2012, High Fliers Research said.
But its study of the 2013 graduate market said there were still an average 46 applicants for each position.
Last month the Higher Education Statistics Agency said it believed 10% of UK students remained unemployed six months after graduating in 2012.
The latest study suggests that the rise in vacancies for graduates is higher than expected.
Earlier this year, the same group of employers predicted that graduate vacancies would increase by 2.7%. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Higher Education Brings Few Guarantees

By Gu Yongqiang. Almost 7 million college graduates will pour into China’s job market this year, but a large proportion will struggle to find suitable work. When Sam Gu was admitted to college four years ago, his parents were ecstatic. His father, an electric welder, and his mother, a cleaner at a hotel in Gu’s hometown of Wuxi, a small city near Shanghai, hoped that their son would vault into the middle class. But the family’s first college graduate is facing a grim job market in a country that desperately needs to employ its best and brightest in order to avoid social instability and trigger a further economic slowdown. “I want to get a job, but the reality is that I do not know where I can find one,” says Gu. “As far as I know, none of my 45 classmates has found a job. This is so frustrating.” Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Up to £15m in tuition fees 'lost' to English universities

By Gareth Evans. New figures reveal the Welsh Government’s controversial tuition fee policy is ploughing up to £15.3m into five universities in England. The Welsh Government’s controversial tuition fee policy is ploughing up to £15.3m into five universities in England, figures uncovered by the Welsh Conservatives have revealed.
Data compiled by leader of the opposition Andrew RT Davies shows that based on the potential tuition fee subsidy of £5,500, as much as £15.3m could be lost to the top five most popular universities alone. A Freedom of Information request found that Bristol, Bath, Exeter, Liverpool and Chester take the most Welsh-domiciled students and the universities currently have 2,778 undergraduates enrolled. A decision to subsidise Welsh students wherever in the UK they choose to study currently costs the Welsh Government up to £5,500 per student, who continue to pay in the region of £3,500. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Universities hike tuition fees

By Pascal Kwesiga and Innocent Anguyo. PARENTS of students at the university must prepare to dig deeper in their pockets as tuition and functional fees are set to be hiked in a number of private and public universities in the country.
At Makerere, rising costs has forced the oldest public university to halt the feeding of private students who hitherto paid just sh2,000 per day for breakfast, lunch and supper.
This will raise the feeding cost for the students since they have to dig deeper in their pockets to buy food in the nearby eateries on a daily basis or alternatively cook their own food outside halls of residence.
The increase in fees is rooted in the rising costs of running universities. In public universities, the university councils, the top governing bodies, are only allowed to set new tuition fees provided they get approval from the Government. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Updates to COPPA, Cengage's Bankruptcy, and More

By Audrey Watters. In an email to students enrolled in his Finance MOOC being offered on the Coursera platform, Michigan professor Gautam Kaul said that he would not give out the correct answers on assignments. “If this were a one-time class, we would have considered posting answers. It will however be very difficult for us to offer this class again if we have to keep preparing new sets of questions with multiple versions to allow you to attempt each one more than once.” Inside Higher Ed’s Ry Rivard and Colorado State University professor Jonathan Rees also weigh in. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Zhejiang U. showdown

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Under the current system, a university president of this stature is appointed without much public input, by two departments - the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Part of China (CPC) and the Ministry of Education.
Officials from these departments announced Lin's appointment on Wednesday at a meeting of the university's leadership.
"I will work hard to provide professors and students with the opportunity to realize their potential and compete fairly," Lin said in his first speech as the university president.
Lin admitted to some weaknesses, saying his oratory skills needed work and that he is unsociable, but said he would "shoulder the negative pressure" and carry out his job. Professors and students at the university remained skeptical of his suitability, saying he is not familiar enough with the university. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Academic cooperation needed to confront Europe’s crisis

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By Ulrich Grothus. There can be little doubt that the European Union (EU) is in the deepest crisis since its inception, a crisis it may not survive in its current form and composition. The French writer Ernest Renan once famously said that a nation rests on a daily plebiscite. In many parts of Europe that plebiscite now seems to go against rather than in favour of the union. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Global rankings highlight African business schools

ByNicola Jenvey. The recently released Financial Times (FT) Business School Rankings survey has placed the spotlight on African business executive and master of business administration (MBA) qualifications, revealing how the continent is faring internationally. Now in its 15th year, the FT survey rates the top 70-100 providers globally for their MBA and customised and open executive education programmes by collating data from the course providers, programme participants and corporate clients. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

What’s driving the new professional doctorates?

By Ami Zusman. In the past 10 to 15 years, new kinds of doctorate degrees – in fields that had never had doctorates before – have burst onto the higher education scene in the United States. These new ‘professional practice doctorate’, or PPD, degrees have emerged in at least a dozen fields, ranging from physical therapy to bioethics. Some of these newly created doctorate degrees are now required for a person to enter a professional practice. In other fields, although they are not (or not yet) required, these doctorates have become the normative degree. Read more...

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