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2 juin 2013

AAU pushes to expand activity and geographical base

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By Ard Jongsma. The 13th General Conference of the Association of African Universities, or AAU, held in Libreville, Gabon last week, staked out the AAU’s path for the next four years. There is the promise of a 25% increase in project funding, a new composition of the board and presidencies and – perhaps most significantly – a strong push to strengthen the position of the association in Francophone Africa. Starting with the latter, the trend was already set last year, when Etienne Ehile of Côte d'Ivoire was installed as the association’s new secretary general after Olugbemiro Jegede. The choice of Gabon as the venue for the 13th assembly underlined these aspirations too. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

Tackling a serious shortage of lecturers with PhDs

By Hiep Pham. Vietnam is facing a shortage of highly qualified academics in its universities and colleges as a result of the over-expansion of higher education in the past two decades. In 2012, only 11% of the country’s 84,109 lecturers held doctorate degrees. And the proportion is getting worse; in 2000, nearly 15% of 30,309 academics had PhDs. The ratio of PhD-holding lecturers per student is even more alarming – over the 12 years the ratio has fallen from 0.5% (one highly qualified lecturer per 200 students) in 2000 to 0.415% in 2012. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

Student unrest hits Chile's universities in new QS regional ranking

By David Jobbins. Turmoil in Chile’s universities during 2011-12 may lie behind the relatively poor performance of the country’s universities in the third annual QS University Rankings for Latin America, published on 28 May. More than half of the country's universities – 17 out of 30 – in the top 300 have fallen in the table compared to last year, including four of the top five. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

Engage with the higher education journalists

“Worldviews 2013” is less than a month away – 19 to 21 June. We’re delighted to be welcoming distinguished journalists from publications around the world, including University World News, Inside Higher Ed, Times Higher Education, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Maclean's, Al Jazeera, USA Today, US News, J-Source, University Affairs, Futurity and more. The full conference agenda is now online. The impact of new and emerging forms of communication, the internationalisation of higher education campuses and the restructuring of media and academia in the context of financial constraints, are some of the critical issues that these attendees will address, discuss, and debate. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

University demands that students and staff learn Zulu

By Nicola Jenvey. The University of KwaZulu-Natal's decision that all new students register for a compulsory Zulu course from next year has thrown the proverbial cat among the pigeons. While details of the initiative – a first for South African higher education – are unclear, the university believes that students must demonstrate bilingualism to earn their degrees. The university is calling it “a watershed moment promoting social cohesion”. The move requires every undergraduate, regardless of faculty, to complete the one-semester language course. Currently, only health sciences students must complete a Zulu module. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

Board of Investment leads island bid to become HE hub

By Guillaume Gouges. Mauritius has been showcasing its assets in recent years and is aiming to become a hub for world-class education and a destination for international students and institutions. Board of Investment Chair Ken Poonoosamy spoke to University World News about the Indian Ocean island’s strategies for achieving these goals.
UWN: Why are international institutions establishing branches in Mauritius?
Poonoosamy: With its bilingual educational system and a multicultural learning environment, Mauritius is positioning itself as an international knowledge hub. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

China in African education – A force for good?

ByMilton Obamba. China and Africa have a long tradition of bilateral cooperation. But the establishment of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation – FOCAC – in 2000 has revolutionised Sino-African cooperation. FOCAC is an intergovernmental agency established jointly by China and African nations to provide a plan for strengthening bilateral cooperation between China and 50 African member countries. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

Universities are engines of continent’s development

By Russel Botman. In the light of Africa Day celebrations on 25 May and the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity – predecessor to the African Union, or AU – it is timely to look at the role of higher education in ensuring that the continent’s rapid economic progress results in sustained human development. Africa is increasingly being identified as a success story. Analysts have noted that the international discourse has shifted from Afro-pessimism to Afro-optimism. This is largely on the back of the continent’s good economic performance. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

Film students get a shot of reality at Cannes festival

By Alecia D McKenzie. Rain, robbery and revelry – these are three of the things for which the 2013 Cannes Film Festival will be remembered. But overlooked in all the headlines about bad weather, stolen jewels and partying stars were the hundreds of film students from around the world trying to find financing and an audience at Cannes. The festival, which took place from 15-26 May in this coastal French city, selected 18 films – 14 fiction films and four animated films – from among a massive 1,550 submitted from 277 film schools. Read more...

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2 juin 2013

Creating globally recognised degrees

By Roger Y Chao Jr. Despite global interdependencies and initiatives towards globalisation and regionalisation of higher education, there are still a number of barriers to mutual recognition of higher education degrees and qualifications. Although regional and national quality assurance and qualifications frameworks have been developed and even implemented, challenges brought about by different grading systems across national and regional higher education systems – and even within the same university – need to be investigated and rationalised. Read more...

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