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16 juin 2013

e-Learning conference calls for sustainable innovation

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By Moses Magadza. The 8th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training – aka e-Learning Africa – ended in the Namibian capital Windhoek with delegates calling for homegrown, sustainable innovation in e-learning to spur development across Africa. Namibia’s Prime Minister Dr Hage Geingob officially opened the conference, which was held from 29-31 May and drew nearly 1,500 delegates and more than 300 speakers from 65 countries. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

Brazil launches African higher education collaboration

By Wagdy Sawahel. Brazil has launched a major higher education cooperation programme with Portuguese-speaking Africa. Under the project, educators and researchers from 20 Brazilian centres of higher education will provide services in five African nations. The Portuguese-speaking nations include Angola, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique and São Tomé and Principe. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

MOOCs a threat to intellectual property – Professors

By Peter Schmidt. Colleges broadly threaten faculty members' copyrights and academic freedom in claiming ownership of the massive open online courses – MOOCs – their instructors have developed, Cary Nelson, a former president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), argued at the group's annual conference last week.
This is an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, America’s leading higher education publication. It is presented here under an agreement with University World News.
In the meeting's opening address, Nelson characterised the debate at colleges over who owns the rights to faculty members' MOOCs as part of a broader battle over intellectual property that's being waged on America's campuses. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

New DAAD centre to boost academic links with Germany

By Michael Gardner. The German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD, has set up an information centre in Jordan’s capital Amman to consolidate and intensify academic links between the two countries. The centre was officially opened last month. The DAAD Information Center Amman is to inform students and academics in Jordan about studying and doing research in Germany. It also offers details of research funding opportunities. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

White smoke – New rector appointed at top university

By Ian Dobson. Professor Jukka Kola has been appointed to the top job at the University of Helsinki. He was one of nine applicants, four of whom were shortlisted, for the rector’s post. The university board announced the five-year appointment on 12 June. Kola (53) has been a part-time vice-rector since 2010, following a five-year stint as dean of agriculture and forestry. He has held the chair of agricultural policy since 1992 . Read more...

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16 juin 2013

New government scheme tackles graduate unemployment

By Tunde Fatunde. Worried about the growing rate of graduate joblessness, the Nigerian government – in partnership with the private sector – is financing a scheme under which graduates will learn to eventually become employers. Some 850,000 graduates have reportedly already registered for training placements in reputable companies. The project has been applauded as one way of resolving graduate unemployment. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

University’s internet exchange seen as hacker target

By Joshua But, Joyce Ng and Ernest Kao. As the home of the hub for Hong Kong's internet traffic, Chinese University is regarded by local security experts as one of the prime targets in the city for cyber attacks by foreign agents. The Hong Kong Internet Exchange, or HKIX, on the university's sprawling Sha Tin campus, neatly fits the description of a ‘network backbone’, which whistle-blower Edward Snowden says the US security services are targeting. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

Commission on future proposes major changes for HE

By Peta Lee. Britain's high-powered Commission on the Future of Higher Education last week called for vocationally focused 'fee only' degrees for local students, a new postgraduate student loans system and credit recognition for MOOCs, among many other recommendations. In its report, A Critical Path: Securing the future of higher education in England, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) commission – chaired by University of Warwick Vice-chancellor Nigel Thrift – acknowledged the tough economic conditions and the transformation over the past half century of higher education in Britain. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

EUA report reveals higher education funding pressures

By Peta Lee. The latest edition of the European University Association’s Public Funding Observatory has revealed pressures faced by many countries in funding higher education institutions, specifically regarding the impact of inflation and changes in student numbers.
“While no system has been left completely unaffected by the crisis, there is still a risk of a widening gap in terms of university funding between different parts of Europe,” says the EUA, which released the report with a new interactive online tool for 23 European systems. Read more...

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16 juin 2013

UK, US launch global university partnership initiative

By Karen MacGregor. In a new global initiative, America and Britain have joined forces to forge university partnerships with emerging economies. The aim is to achieve 40 trilateral partnerships involving 120 universities worldwide in the first year, and up to 600 over five years. The UK-US Global Innovation Initiative, which will last for up to five years, was announced by UK Foreign Secretary William Hague and US Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington DC, after the signing of a memorandum of understanding on 10 June. Read more...

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