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4 juillet 2018

Universities ‘key to bridging global digital divide’

By Yojana Sharma. Universities will be key in bridging new emerging ‘digital divides’ within countries and globally in the era of innovation driven by artificial intelligence and other new technologies, a conference organised by the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) heard last week. More...
4 juillet 2018

Learning to reward risk-takers, imaginative thinkers

By Nita Temmerman. I have just finished reading a beautifully written, highly informative and accessible biography about Leonardo da Vinci. In it there is constant reference to him being a man of science and the arts – someone who saw them as inextricably linked. More...
4 juillet 2018

Building scientific capacity – A regional turning point

By Ekua Nuama Bentil. The future of Africa will be shaped by two dynamics. First, how well its leaders prepare for the fastest population growth rate in the world. And second, how well they do in creating the right opportunities for its young citizens. More...
4 juillet 2018

The link between student mobility and employability

By Wondwosen Tamrat and Damtew Teferra. Employability is currently a buzzword in many conversations as institutional, national, regional and international organisations frantically gear up to respond to the ominous realities of youth bulge, ‘mass’ enrolment and graduate unemployment. More...
4 juillet 2018

ASEAN shares best practice on student mobility

By Johanna Rasplus. Last month, Campus France – the French national agency for the promotion of higher education, international student services and international mobility – organised a conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on credit transfer and recognition in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN region. More...
4 juillet 2018

Recognition back on top of the mobility agenda in the EU

By Stig Arne Skjerven and Einar Meier. The 1997 Lisbon Recognition Convention defines recognition as “a formal acknowledgement by a competent authority of the value of a foreign education qualification”. In plain English, recognition is the process whereby an education taken in one country is given value in another country, usually by granting access to further studies or work. More...
4 juillet 2018

A better way forward for transnational higher education

By Peter De Costa. As I pen this commentary from my office at the National University of Singapore or NUS – my alma mater and summer academic home – I have been notified that NUS has emerged 11th in the Quacquarelli Symonds or QS World University Rankings and reclaimed its position as Asia’s number one university. More...
4 juillet 2018

Students claim stake in upcoming national elections

By Tonderayi Mukeredzi. Higher and tertiary education students in Zimbabwe have a real opportunity to make their mark in the 2018 harmonised elections on 30 July which pundits say will be heavily influenced by the youth vote. More...
4 juillet 2018

Students fight plan for mandatory attendance at lectures

By Michael Gardner. Students in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have staged protests against the centre-right state government’s plans to introduce a new higher education law. Aspects they are criticising include a reintroduction of compulsory attendance at lectures and seminars. More...
4 juillet 2018

President warns students not to expect free education

By Kudzai Mashininga. Malawi’s President Professor Peter Mutharika has urged students to take advantage of the government’s expanded student loan system, but not to expect free education. More...
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