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7 avril 2013

EAC root for same tuition

By Dear Jeanne. Universities and institutions of higher learning in East Africa are set to harmonise tuition fees for students within the East Africa Community states.
Stakeholders from 96 universities registered under the Inter- University Council of East Africa (IUCEA) will hold consultative talks to forge a way forward for implementation of the policy that the Council has been campaigning for for the last two years.
The decision was reached during the 4th annual IUCEA meeting held in Entebbe recently. According to the IUCEA Executive Secretary, Prof Mayunga Nkunya, the council has received resistance from EAC member states who view the policy as a way of forcing governments to educate members of other states at a cheap price. Read more...

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7 avril 2013

What Graduate Students Should Know About the Sequester

By Delece Smith-Barrow. Admissions criteria will change at some schools because of sequestration. Research universities and graduate assistants across the nation are starting to feel the sequester's impact. The across-the-board, $85 billion in discretionary spending cuts began just one month ago. "My NIH grant has already been affected. Our budget has been altered because of it," says Thomas Brown, a professor and vice chair of research for the Department of Neuroscience, Biology and Physiology at Wright State University. Read more...

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7 avril 2013

University chief issues rankings warning

By Nicholas Jones. New Zealand universities are falling in international rankings and without a radical rethink of funding will struggle to attract top students and staff, a university leader has warned. Auckland University vice-chancellor Professor Stuart McCutcheon said the university system had lost ground in even the most generous of international rankings.
"Although the universities do a better job each year, other university systems that are better funded are rising through the ranks. That's a huge problem, because international students particularly use the world rankings as a mark of quality."
New Zealand universities are aiming to grow their numbers of international students, after a change in government funding effectively capped domestic student numbers, and the funds that go with them. Professor McCutcheon said that was at risk. Read more...

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7 avril 2013

Construction boom at city campuses

By Nicholas Jones. Despite millions of dollars of investment to provide state-of-the-art facilities, international competitors are outspending us and our universities are slipping in global rankings. Auckland's universities are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new buildings, transforming not only their campuses but the shape of the city they serve. The unprecedented construction has provided some of the largest construction jobs in Auckland in recent years. But while today's students are benefiting from state-of-the-art facilities, New Zealand universities are being matched or outspent by international competitors. Read more...

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7 avril 2013

Stanford to help build edX MOOC platform

By Nick Anderson. Stanford University will team with a nonprofit founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University to develop an open-source Web platform for free online college courses. The Stanford alliance with the nonprofit venture edX, announced early Wednesday, signaled a new twist in what has become a race to open up the highest levels of higher education to the world.
Stanford has been central in the emergence of what are known as massive open online courses, or MOOCs, which have drawn interest from millions of people around the world. Two Stanford computer scientists launched the for-profit MOOC platform Coursera about a year ago, and Stanford offers several courses on that site. Another Stanford professor founded the for-profit MOOC provider Udacity. Read more...

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7 avril 2013

Speeding up the process of international admissions

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By Mark Harvey. The United Kingdom’s higher education institutions have been experiencing some turbulence in student recruitment levels. And as the higher education marketplace becomes increasingly global, this is likely to become ever more unpredictable.
Following the recent introduction of higher tuition fees in the UK and changes to visa regulations, it is becoming more and more difficult for institutions in Britain to forecast what application levels might look like.
After a sharp dip last year, when the higher fees meant that the number of students starting degree courses fell by 12%, this year things seemed to improve. Read more...

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7 avril 2013

Solutions needed for higher education quality crisis

By Carlos Olivares. There are three sorts of tertiary education institutions in Chile: universities, professional institutes and technical training centres. Each one grants different qualifications: academic, professional or technical.
Universities can grant all three kinds of qualifications, while the institutes award professional and technical qualifications and technical training centres are only allowed to provide technical programmes.
By law, all universities have non-profit status. Among the universities, of which there are 59 in total, there is a historical division between CRUCH (25) and non-CRUCH institutions (34). CRUCH institutions receive public subsidies for their operations. There are 45 professional institutes and 63 technical training centres. Read more...

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7 avril 2013

Should Hong Kong rethink its higher education plans?

By Roger Y Chao Jr. Additional financial resources and capacity have been allocated by the Hong Kong government to support the restructuring of higher education into the 3-3-4 model – three years of junior and senior secondary respectively and four years of bachelor study.
This was done to accommodate the double cohort, where two batches of first-year university students start simultaneously as a result of the shift to the new four-year bachelor programmes, which started this academic year.
However, what will happen after the double cohort ends in school year 2014-15? Will funding continue to flow into the university sector? With the normalisation of the university student cohort in 2015-16, what should the sector do with the capacity built to accommodate the double cohort? Read more...

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7 avril 2013

How to retain quality and balance the budget

By William Patrick Leonard. Four years of post-secondary study at a college or university leading to a baccalaureate degree was accepted as the norm in the United States just a few decades ago. An informal metric, it was accepted as a simultaneous proxy of the host institution’s quality and the student’s academic proficiency. Those not graduating within four years were the exception when there was a relatively smaller and more homogeneous student cohort. The vast majority were recent secondary school graduates enrolled in residential institutions. The majority completed the baccalaureate within the four-year norm. Read more...

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7 avril 2013

New rector signals new phase for United Nations University

By Erin Millar. Canadian Dr David Malone, who took office as rector of the United Nations University last month, pledges to “relentlessly” pursue higher quality and more relevant research during his five-year term at the helm of the international research institution.
In an interview with University World News, Malone discussed his intention to push the 150 principal researchers that work for the United Nations University, or UNU, to produce groundbreaking research that will inform policy relevant to UN priorities. Read more...

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