On 4 May 2018, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) will organise an international symposium on the topic "Internationalisation of Universities and the National Language". This symposium fits into the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of KU Leuven as a Flemish university. More...
By Wagdy Sawahel. Students from teacher-training institutes Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Algeria are continuing their open strike and cyclical protests which began in November last year over changes to the rules in their admission contracts determining employment and postgraduate studies. More...By Christabel Ligami. Scores of engineering students in Kenya face the prospect of not having their qualifications recognised after the Engineers Board of Kenya reduced the number of accredited institutions to nine universities. More...By Gilbert Nakweya. The call for reforms in policy and approach to the training of law graduates in Kenya is continuing despite a slight improvement in performance in the bar examinations written last year. More...By Maina Waruru. Scholars and researchers based in African and foreign universities have dominated the latest list of 32 senior scientists named as 2017 fellows of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS). More...By Sharon Dell – Acting Africa Editor. An extract from a new book by Jennifer M Case, Delia Marshall, Sioux McKenna and Disaapele Mogashana argues that conceiving of economic advancement as the main purpose of higher education in South Africa is inadequate and that higher education offers multiple public good benefits which are useful for society as a whole. Also in Africa Analysis, Eric Fredua-Kwarteng and Samuel Kwaku Ofosu give some pointers on how lecturers in African universities can introduce innovative pedagogies to improve the quality of higher education on offer.By Brendan O’Malley – Managing Editor. In Commentary, Philip G Altbach and Hans de Wit say the ‘closing’ of Chinese higher education due to rising authoritarianism in the country will hamper Chinese universities in their aspirations to world-class standards and in their collaborations with Western universities. Eric Fredua-Kwarteng and Samuel Kwaku Ofosu give some pointers on how lecturers in African universities can introduce innovative pedagogies to improve the quality of higher education on offer. Roger Brown asks why universities in the UK have been under such strong and sustained public and media attack of late – could the various criticisms be linked to government policies? And Anand Kulkarni writes that for India the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject highlight challenges in terms of the breadth of its higher education offerings and the need to address areas that are key for the country’s future.
Organizational Development Portal
Just launched, the Organizational Development Portal looks at issues related to human resources and staff development from a wider perspective. More...
Dan Rehak: "SCORM is not for everyone"
There is a fascinating report about SCORM in today's CETIS. Though very short, it contains some items - tinderboxes, actually - that should give developers serious pause for thought. For example, though version 1.3 of SCORM is in draft and version 1.4 is coming down the pipe, SCORM 2.0, expected in 2004, will be "a complete rewrite of SCORM, and focus on task simulations and be highly adaptive. It will therefore have a new content model and new performance support." This means that all your nice new SCORM 1.x compliant applications and resources (on which you may have spent millions of dollars) will be obsolete some time in 2004. More...
SCORM Best Practices Guide for Content Developers
The new SCORM best practices guide is out. But before rushing to the developer's chair, read the next item first. More...
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