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23 juin 2013

Will MOOCs help to democratise higher education?

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By Karen MacGregor. The democratisation of higher education requires widening access to studies that lead to useful qualifications, and giving people more opportunities to select study programmes themselves and easily design their own courses from the rich pool of material freely available, Sir John Daniel told the “Worldviews 2013” conference last week. The question is whether massive open online course, or MOOCs, will help or hinder that process. Read more...

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23 juin 2013

Fixing a broken international policy

By Mitch Leventhal. After 15 months of deliberations, the United States’ National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) Commission on International Student Recruitment has all but agreed that commission-based recruitment is permissible – but its report only feebly addressed what comes next. Its recommendation that commission-based international student recruitment be tolerated is severely tempered by its incomplete coverage of developments on the ground, and its supplemental recommendations, which appear to pander to a variety of vested interests. Read more...

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23 juin 2013

Affirmative threat to private-sector admissions

By John Aubrey Douglass. Once again, the United States Supreme Court will soon pass judgment on affirmative action as a factor in admissions in America’s most selective universities and colleges. As in previous cases, a Euro-American student filed a lawsuit against a highly selective public university, in this case the University of Texas at Austin (UT). The plaintiff, Abigail Noel Fisher, claims overt racial discrimination when UT rejected her freshman application in 2008. Read more...

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23 juin 2013

Shining a light on classroom knowledge production

By Abu Kamara. Every day brilliant lecturers spend hours outside the classroom preparing syllabuses, shifting through endless information to create amazing lecture materials and effective evaluation criteria. However, almost always the products of such intensive intellectual labour, whether in the form of lecture notes or tests and quizzes, are offered by lecturers to students as immaculate ideas that have been scrubbed clean of all signs of the hard work that went into their preparation. Read more...

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23 juin 2013

Concerns growing over ‘gaming’ in university rankings

By Karen MacGregor. Universities determined to rise up international rankings are increasingly ‘playing’ the methodology, Shaun Curtis of the University of Exeter in the UK told the “Worldviews 2013” conference last week. One way is to seek support from colleagues in other institutions who are answering rankings questionnaires, and another is to game the data. Read more...

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23 juin 2013

Higher education system is falling apart

By Andrew Green. Frustrated students at one suspended South Sudanese university are threatening to burn their place of learning down if classes do not resume soon. Across the country, the vice-chancellor of another of five officially open national universities said he was prepared to resign because he does not have the money to keep the institution running. And three planned national universities have still not opened their doors, even as more and more students look for higher education opportunities. Read more...

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23 juin 2013

Strategy, media and international student integration

By Katherine Forestier. As universities recruit more international students, they need to work out their media messaging about the benefits for local and national communities, as well as their campuses, the “Worldviews 2013” conference in Toronto heard. Views differed as to whether universities should sell the economic benefits, or use the media to promote wider cultural and social advantages. Both could help or hinder the integration of international students. Read more...

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23 juin 2013

Leipzig mainstreaming move causes uproar

By Michael Gardner. The University of Leipzig in Saxony, east Germany, has taken an unusual step to promote women’s equality in academia. Its constitution now refers to all university staff members in the feminine form. German is a language with grammatical gender, the three forms being feminine, masculine and neuter. The feminine form for professor is professorin, with ‘professor’ as masculine. Women doctoral students are doktorinnen, and women academics in general are wissenschaftlerinnen. Read more...

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23 juin 2013

Helsinki big winner in centres of excellence funding

By Ian Dobson. The University of Helsinki confirmed its place on the top rung of the Finnish research ladder by being appointed as the coordinating university for seven of 14 centres of excellence in research being funded by the Academy of Finland. Participants are universities and research institutes, and the academy has reserved €45 million (US$59 million) for the first three years of the six-year programme term. The programme involves research teams from 12 universities or research institutes. Read more...

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23 juin 2013

Top English universities in 'elitism' row

By David Jobbins. England’s top universities are failing to recruit across all classes and backgrounds, the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission said this week. In a report titled Higher Education: The fair access challenge, the commission found that overall people in the most advantaged areas are still three times as likely to go to university as those in the most disadvantaged areas. Read more...

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