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20 mai 2013

'Fly in, fly out' scholars fail to take off in China

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A new report shows that 'fly in, fly out' academics are a source of frustration for Chinese students taking UK degrees in their own country, writes Jack Grove for Times Higher Education. Full report on the Times Higher Education site.
Around 38,000 students in China were studying for qualifications taught by a total of 70 British higher education institutions last year, either through a branch campus, partnerships with Chinese universities or via distance learning. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

MOOCs – Past, present and future

By Hamish Macleod and Geoff Gould.The University of Edinburgh has a reputation for innovation and so being part of one of the first massive online open courses, or MOOCs, was a logical step for us. One of the most striking things about the university’s pilot MOOC was how it demonstrated the sheer appetite for online learning. Not really knowing what to expect, we were astonished with the level of enrolments, which exceeded 300,000. We had almost 90% of applicants coming from outside of the UK, so it is truly a worldwide phenomenon. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Students must think critically about their worldviews

By Abu Kamara. There is a ‘critical thinking’ deficit in higher education. The chief aim of the higher education curriculum seems to be more about helping students absorb facts and less about helping them develop as critical thinkers. Information is passed on to students without setting aside time for examining the contextual nature and cultural base of knowledge. Without the benefit of developing the habit of examining the contextual nature and cultural base of knowledge, students absorb information while still remaining blind to the impact of their worldviews on the way they conceive the world. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Economic recovery stifled by serious brain drain

By Makki Marseilles. Over the past two centuries large numbers of unskilled and semi-skilled Greeks have left the Aegean shores in search of a better future. Today’s emigrants are highly skilled professionals, with postgraduate qualifications, who are unable to function in the country’s depressing economic environment. But their leaving is also delaying – even preventing – Greece’s recovery. When Greece joined the European Union (EU) just over 30 years ago, the flow of immigration was gradually staunched and many people returned to take advantage of the increased economic opportunities that were opening at the time. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Turkish PhD students drawn to US and Germany

By Basak Bilecen. Nowadays university campuses are full of international students pursuing different programmes with different interests. Students from Turkey are no exception and are among the very highly mobile student populations. An article by The New York Times noted last month that although Britain sent more than 9,000 students to the United States last year – a record – and Germany sent about 9,300, both lagged behind Turkey which has been sending more than 10,000 students a year to the US since 2000. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Postgraduate students flood in from more nations

By Alan Osborn. As befits its high standing in the academic world, the UK draws postgraduate students from more than 150 countries, representing a high and steadily rising proportion of all students in British universities. In 2011-12 there were nearly 2.5 million university students in the UK, with more than 550,000 undertaking postgraduate studies – and nearly 210,000, or 38%, were from outside Britain, according to figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Only 54,000 international postgraduate students were from other European Union (EU) countries, a figure dwarfed by the 96,240 postgraduates from Asia, with the major shares represented by China (37,876) and India (21,765). Another 20,585 postgraduates were from Africa and 14,640 from the Middle East. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

International doctoral students face a tough job market

By Erin Millar. Although Canada has more than doubled the number of international PhD candidates studying here in the past five years, highly educated immigrants face worse job prospects than their Canadian-born counterparts. This is likely to cause many to leave the country in the long term. In the 2010-11 academic year, 1,395 of 5,907 or nearly 24% of PhD candidates were international students, according to Statistics Canada. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Foreign doctoral students may be in transit

By Paul Rigg. In a commentary last month, Philip Altbach wrote that the rich were stealing the brains of developing countries. In the case of Spain where doctorate production has grown exponentially, however, the evidence regarding the destination of foreign doctoral students does not support that view. Spain saw a six-fold increase in the number of doctorate awarded from 1978-04, up from 1,117 to 7,474, according to an OECD 2009 review of Spanish tertiary education. This rose to around 8,000 in 2010, according to Eurostat figures cited in a report by the organisation Cooperation on Doctoral Education between Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, which placed Spain fifth in terms of European production. Provisional information from Data and Figures from the Spanish University System 2012-2013, showed that nearly 24% of these 8,000 doctorates were earned by foreign students of whom 62% were from Latin America and 27% from Europe, with only 4% from Asia-Oceania and 4% from Africa. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

European project links universities to boost innovation

By Wagdy Sawahel. The Mediterranean Innovation Alliance, or MEDINNOALL, project aimed to promote research and development as well as technology and industrial upgrading. Its outcomes will be discussed at a regional event to be held in Morocco next month. Nizar Ayadi, coordinator of the MEDINNOALL project, told University World News: “Ensuring stronger relevance of universities in the context of their economic environments and enhancing universities’ contributions to national and regional economic and innovation performance are among the most topical issues.”
The MEDINNOALL project worked to promote innovative thinking in higher education in the Mediterranean and strengthen the ability of universities to collaborate and conduct research. Read more...

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20 mai 2013

Millionaires on the rise among college presidents

By Jack Stripling and Jonah Newman, The Chronicle of Higher Education. American public higher education's million-dollar club just got bigger. Four public college presidents earned more than $1million in 2011-12, up from three presidents a year earlier, a Chronicle analysis has found. The median total compensation for public college leaders rose to $441,392, an increase of 4.7% on 2010-11. Read more...

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