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12 mai 2013

UK universities can help Burma’s HE – Aung San Suu Kyi

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By Yojana Sharma. Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, head of the opposition National League for Democracy in Myanmar, has said that British universities can help reinvigorate her country’s education system, which has been ravaged by years of military rule. In a video address to a meeting in London of higher education leaders from Myanmar and the UK, she said: “The focus of the military government was on maintaining discipline, not on providing education. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

Medium-term funding boost for post-school education

By Karen MacGregor. South Africa’s post-school education budget has been increased to R34.3 billion (US$3.8 billion) – growth of 8.6% over last year – Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande said last week. A priority is to provide opportunities for 3.5 million youths not absorbed into employment, education or training this year. The current inflation rate is just under 6%. Medium-term funding has been increased by an average of 7.8% over the three years to 2015-16, rising to nearly R40 billion in 2015-16, Nzimande told parliament in his budget vote speech on 8 May. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

EAC slashes budget for harmonising higher education

By Gilbert Nganga.The East African Community, or EAC, has slashed its budget for harmonising education systems and curricula in the five member countries in the coming fiscal year, further slowing a process that has nearly flopped due to financial constraints. Budgetary estimates produced by the EAC secretariat, the executive arm of the trade bloc, earlier this month showed that the Inter-University Council for East Africa, or IUCEA, will receive US$9.6 million – just down from the current year’s $10 million. The IUCEA is the regional body charged by the five countries with harmonising their education systems. According to the documents, of the US$9.6 million, $5.6 million is expected to come from donors, while the balance will be contributions from the partner states: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

Mega-universities and more money for higher education

ByTunde Fatunde. Nigeria’s National Economic Council, or NEC, recently made several far-reaching decisions on the future of tertiary education in the country, including the creation of ‘mega-universities’ in six geo-political zones, each with the capacity to admit up to 150,000 students. At the recent meeting of the NEC, whose membership includes the president, vice-president and all 36 governors of the federation, some unprecedented decisions were unanimously reached to increase the level of tertiary education. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

Balkan ministers identify labour market links as top priority

By Ard Jongsma. Last Tuesday, ministers from the European Union (EU) accession countries in the Balkans decided with the European Commission on the topic of the next action of the EU-supported Western Balkan Platform for Education and Training. The most likely option will be work to map the links between the world of learning and the world of work. With unemployment rampant in the region, not least among graduates, a rethink of industry involvement in education is high on the list of regional priorities. At the launch of the platform in Danilovgrad last March, ministers prioritised higher education over teacher training as the area to benefit most from this EU-supported regional cooperation. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

New ranking of 48 national HE systems, same results

By Geoff Maslen. For the second year running, the network of 24 research-intensive universities called Universitas 21 has published a report on global rankings of national higher education systems rather than their universities.
A release accompanying the report claims that it is the first ranking of countries and territories that are best at providing higher education. In fact it is the second and the summary of its findings is virtually the same as last year as can be seen in University World News’ 2012 story. This includes the finding that the top 10 countries in rank order are the United States, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Norway, Australia, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

University secures key China partnership

Australia's top ‘China Ready’ university, the University of New South Wales (UNSW), has signed the latest in a series of strategic partnerships with China's National Academy of Education Administration, cementing the Sydney-based university as China's premier higher learning partner from Down Under, reports Xinhau. Speaking ahead of the signing ceremony last Tuesday, UNSW Deputy Vice-chancellor Professor Iain Martin told Xinhua that the new partnership was an important mechanism for both sides to learn from best practice. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

Helfen Hochschulrankings bei der Studienwahl?

Solange Hochschulrankings existieren, gibt es Kritik. Ein Ranking-Gegner und ein Ranking-Befürworter diskutieren über Sinn und Unsinn der Uni-Vergleiche. Reden wir nicht drum herum: Hochschulrankings sind umstritten. Solange die Uni-Vergleiche existieren, gibt es Kritik. Auch am Ranking des Centrums für Hochschulentwicklung (CHE), das auf ZEIT ONLINE veröffentlicht wird. Hochschulen fühlen sich unfair behandelt, Fachvereinigungen wie die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie oder die Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker monieren methodische Mängel. Einige Fachbereiche und manchmal auch ganze Hochschulen wie die Universität Hamburg lehnen das Ranking ab. Und mancher Studentenvertreter behauptet, Rankings würden einen Wettbewerb schüren, der in der Bildung nichts zu suchen hat. Mehr...

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12 mai 2013

Universities preparing students to succeed

By Bonnie M. Patterson. Gwyn Morgan, in an April 25 column (Universities doing little to solve Canada’s ‘jobs without skills’ problem), writes that Canada’s universities must do more to address what is being described as a looming skills shortage.
He proposes that universities identify the skills employers need, rip up the current program selections and replace them with those that would produce job-ready men and women with a magical, laserlike precision.
Let’s take a moment to consider some facts about the job market and what universities are indeed doing to prepare students to succeed. Read more...

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12 mai 2013

Students add up the numbers on university fees, financial aid

By Karen Seidman. Changes mean more students will be entitled to loans and bursaries. While Quebec university students recently won a hard-fought gain in the government’s financial-aid program that should boost the number of students entitled to loans and bursaries, they will also feel the pinch of a sharply reduced tax credit for next year. There’s a lot of give and take, as students can now assess what the government has planned for next year in terms of fees and student aid. Very few gains come without a price, so students may claim victory in their tuition battle, but they will take some hits as well. By changing the parameters of the parental contribution to $45,000 of family income from $28,000 over the next couple of years — something for which students have lobbied hard — more students should be able to benefit from greater access to loans and bursaries. Read more...

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