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16 juin 2013

Strikes Continue at Venezuelan Universities

By Sascha Bercovitch. Caracas, June 10th 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – In an effort to achieve wage increases, professors at 13 universities across the country have gone on strike, bringing university operations to a halt.
University strikes, normally led by professors and students belonging to the conservative opposition, have become common over the past several years in Venezuela, delaying scheduled classes and often causing students to graduate later than expected.
As the current strikes began at several universities last month, groups in Caracas led a large march throughout the city, during which Minister for University Education Pedro Calzadilla spoke. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

Study highlights a tertiary supply-chain conundrum

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By William Patrick Leonard. The United States’ public secondary schools provide universities and colleges with the bulk of their applicants. There is ample evidence that tertiary institutions are faced with contradictory data suggesting that they have a serious supply-chain problem. Recent reports indicate that high school graduates are better prepared for entry into tertiary education. Secondary schools have been graduating large numbers of students with relatively higher Grade Point Averages, or GPAs. Historical data reveal that secondary school graduates’ GPAs have waxed in recent decades. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

New directions for Association of African Universities

ByFrancis Kokutse. Forty-six years after it was founded, the Association of African Universities (AAU) has more than 300 members and has put in place numerous initiatives to improve the quality of administration and education in universities across the continent, Secretary General Professor Etienne Ehouan Ehile told University World News. Ehile, who was appointed to lead the association in September last year, said the AAU had “achieved a lot” since coming into being in 1967. It had launched programmes that helped “address key issues of higher education in Africa” and had changed the face of the sector. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

University relocation plan stalls for lack of funding

By Hiep Pham. Vietnam’s much-vaunted plan to move dozens of higher education institutions out of cramped city-centre locations to the suburbs of big cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City has stalled, with few universities making the move so far. As part of a bid to enhance higher education quality, five institutions in Hanoi and five in Ho Chi Minh City are to be relocated under the relocation pilot phase from 2011-15, according to plans drawn up in 2010. Another 10 to 15 institutions are scheduled to move during the second phase from 2016-20, with the rest eventually relocating between 2020 and 2030. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

Does India have an international higher education strategy?

By Prabhakar J Lavakare. Across the world, the profile of higher education is changing. Globalisation has opened up global markets for employment and students are eager to grasp them. The need for students to become ‘global citizens’ is recognised by all education providers. In some developed-country institutions, higher education is being recognised as a for-profit activity, with campuses being set up abroad, as part of the new economic domain. For some, enrolling international students is proving to be a source of revenue that helps to balance the dwindling budgets of institutions. The student is becoming the driving force for promoting international education. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

Internationalisation at home – Crossing other borders

By Hanneke Teekens. It was about 15 years ago that the term ‘internationalisation at home’ was coined when a group of people – I was among them – started to talk and publish about it. In essence ‘internationalisation at home’ is about inclusion, diversity and reciprocity in international education, crossing borders by reaching out to 'otherness'. Our original concern was that internationalisation in higher education was looking too much at student mobility numbers, in particular incoming students. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

Everything must be useful – History’s most boring idea

By Giles Pickford. I am looking at the lead story in Issue 275, titled “G8 must recognise role of universities in recovery”. I have a first-class honours degree in English literature from the University of Western Australia. They are not easy to get. I got mine in 1962. I am now 71 years old and more or less retired. When I was doing my degree years ago my friends would ask me whether I was aiming at being a taxi driver. They were all doing the “useful” degrees like agriculture, engineering, accountancy, law etc. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

Erasmus faces demand and management problems – LERU

By David Haworth. One of the world’s most successful student exchange programmes found itself under fire at a recent conference on international curricula in Brussels. Erasmus, which is responsible for placing some 230,000 students abroad each year, was said to be reaching its limits and the supply of applicants has stopped growing. Presenting a paper on “International Curricula and Student Mobility” for the League of European Research Universities, LERU, Professor Bart De Moor – vice-rector for international policy at Belgian’s Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – said that although Erasmus was much envied in the United States and China, it was blighted by huge administrative costs and a lack of personnel to assure proper management. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

Pan-African quality assurance and accreditation moves

By Wachira Kigotho. Plans are under way at the African Union to establish a continental quality assurance and accreditation agency that will measure, compare and harmonise the performance of higher education institutions and facilitate professional mobility across the continent. According to Dr Yohannes Woldetensae, a senior education expert in the department of human resources, science and technology at the African Union Commission (AUC), there is an urgent need to make African higher education more efficient and competitive. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

Low-skilled lawyers prompt calls for law degree reform

By Nicola Jenvey. South Africa’s law degree faces a shake-up in a bid to more adequately equip the country's young lawyers for the demands of the working world. The profession’s weighty bodies are behind a push to reform the qualification countrywide. In a joint statement the South Africa Law Deans' Association (SALDA), the Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) and the General Council of the Bar (GCB) stated their consensus on changing the current four-year undergraduate LLB degree to a five-year qualification. Read more...

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