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31 mars 2013

Can for-profits produce quality education?

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By Kevin Kinser. Much of the criticism of for-profit higher education relies on the assumption of an unavoidable tension between quality and profit. This tension typically is framed in a way in which the pursuit of profit is directly connected to reduction in quality, requiring countervailing external regulations and explicitly enforced internal safeguards.
An educational institution will make greater profit, in other words, if it provides lower quality. The regulatory environment is therefore a necessary bulwark against this possibility, setting a quality floor, beneath which private higher education loses legitimacy and government authority to operate. Read more...

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31 mars 2013

University mergers need to confront identity issues

By Igor Chirikov. Recently the Russian government announced far-reaching plans to support 15 leading research universities in their efforts to achieve international competitiveness and have an impact on global university rankings.
Selected universities will receive special state grants for development after rigorous analysis of their current positions and in exchange for a number of institutional transformations in governance and academic systems.
It is expected that at least five Russian universities will be among the top 100 in the world by 2018. These plans are consistent with preceding governmental efforts to restructure the higher education system and develop world-class universities through centralised state initiatives. Read more...

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31 mars 2013

Taking a global view of the student experience

By Camille Kandiko. The ‘student experience’ exists in a global context, and there is a need to critically examine its different meanings across national and regional environments.
There are forces that are reshaping the student experience, with particular reference to the pressures of globalisation. Taking a global view, is the student experience becoming more homogenised or more diversified over time?
Over half of all international students study in five countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Australia; and over half of all internationally mobile students are from Asia. Click here to find out more. Read more...

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31 mars 2013

Beware cutting back on support for HE in the developing world

By Hans de Wit. Internationalisation of higher education in the past was based more on national policies and strategies than is currently the case. With the exception of the United States, which has never had a national policy, in other industrialised countries the international dimension in higher education was strongly guided by national objectives and priorities two decades ago.
Over the past 20 years, though, the emphasis had shifted to a more diverse institutional focus on internationalisation, stimulated in Europe by the Bologna process. There appeared to be less need for a common national approach to internationalisation in the global knowledge economy – but there are signs of a revival.
A recent phenomenon is the development of national policies in countries such as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Norway and the United Kingdom, and even some signs of a national focus in the United States (skilled immigration, global citizenship). Some other countries, such as India, Malaysia, Romania, South Africa and The Netherlands, are also working on a new national policy for internationalisation. Read more...

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31 mars 2013

Social entrepreneurship – The new community engagement

By Nicola Jenvey. Social entrepreneurship should be the new engagement for individuals and the public and private sectors, with implications for university training – especially in Africa – according to Goos Minderman, public governance professor at Vrije Universiteit in The Netherlands. Providing an international perspective at an innovation and research day held by the Graduate School of Business Leadership at the University of South Africa (UNISA) this month, Minderman said the importance of business involvement in social networks and semi-public activities could be viewed from two perspectives. Read more...

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31 mars 2013

How students use data to choose a university

By Alan Burrell. With Britain’s new higher education funding structure in place and increased competition in student recruitment, every university wants to know what students are looking for and how they are making choices. This was the topic of a session at last week’s annual conference of the Association of University Directors of Estates, held at Warwick University. The AUDE conference from 25-27 March brought together directors of estates and facilities from universities across the UK, and provided opportunities for sharing best practice through networking and speakers. Read more...

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31 mars 2013

Egypt’s Alexandria to set up branch in South Sudan

By Wagdy Sawahel. Egypt’s Alexandria University is to set up a branch campus in the South Sudan town of Tonj, supported by a grant from the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education. The campus will ramp up higher education links that include scholarships for South Sudanese to study in Egypt. This was announced by the Egyptian government following Prime Minister Hisham Qandil's visit to the nascent African country on 14 March, according to a report in Al-Ahram newspaper. The ministry’s grant for the branch of Alexandria, one of Egypt’s leading universities, is LE8.625 million (US$1.27 million). The campus will have departments of veterinary science, agriculture, education, nursing and research. Read more...

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31 mars 2013

Academic shortage deepens as student numbers soar

By Gilbert Nganga. The number of professors working in Kenya’s seven older public universities has risen by a measly 11% over the past three years while student numbers have soared by 56%, highlighting the challenge the country faces in matching enrolments with lecturers. Statistics released by the Commission for University Education, or CUE, show that the number of professors rose from 238 in 2010 to 265 by February this year. This pushed academic staff numbers in the seven universities to 5,189 from around 4,800 three years ago – 8% growth. During the same period, student numbers shot from 140,000 in 2010 to 218,832 this year, which means that lecturers are being forced to take on a bigger workload, possibly compromising already shaky quality of learning. Read more...

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31 mars 2013

Britain gets Down Under academic commentary site

By Geoff Maslen. Two years after Andrew Jaspan launched a daily online newsletter with unpaid political, social and scientific commentaries from academics around Australia, his novel publication The Conversation attracts nearly 700,000 visitors a month. Now the project is to launch a British offshoot. To be known as The Conversation UK, the new venture will start in May as a not-for-profit educational trust. Announcing the move, Jaspan – former editor of The Observer in London, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and, more recently, The Age in Melbourne – told readers last weekend that the British version would be based at City University, London, with an initial staff of 10. Read more...

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31 mars 2013

New rules to attract non-EU students, researchers

By Karen MacGregor. The European Commission has proposed ways to make it “easier and more attractive” for non-European Union (EU) students and researchers to study and work in Europe. New laws should be in place in 2016 and enable states to compete more successfully in the global talent pool.
The aim is for more consistent and transparent rules across the EU. “New legislation will set clearer time limits for national authorities to decide on applications, provide for more opportunities to access the labour market during their stays and facilitate intra-European Union movement,” the commission said in a statement last week. Read more...

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