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9 février 2018

Top universities accused of BTec snobbery

Top universities have been accused of ‘institutional snobbery’ for failing to recognise vocational qualifications increasingly used by poorer teenagers as a route to higher education, writes Michael Savage for The Guardian. More...

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9 février 2018

University opens centre to promote use of big data

The University of Tokyo has embarked on a quest to unearth Japan’s latent assets that could be worth more than ¥700 billion (US$6.4 billion) – big data held by the public sector, writes Shusuke Murai for The Japan Times. More...

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9 février 2018

University launches country's first degree in yodelling

From the 2018-19 academic year it will be possible to study yodelling to degree level in Switzerland for the first time as the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts is adding yodelling to its folk music programme, offering both a three-year bachelor and a two-year masters degree in the alpine vocal technique, writes Caroline Bishop for The Local Switzerland. More...

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9 février 2018

Are academics dying, unable to afford food, medicine?

By Tunde Fatunde. Non-payment and irregular payment of public university lecturers’ salaries are crippling the country’s institutions of higher learning, causing personal hardship for staff with fatal consequences in some cases, as they can’t pay for adequate food or proper medical care, one union, several medics and some academics are alleging. More...

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9 février 2018

Towards higher education in service of humanity

By Patrick Blessinger and Mandla Makhanya. The growing importance of education at all levels and the inclusion of more stakeholders in the educational enterprise has sparked debate about the fundamental nature and purpose of higher education (that is, what type of good is education?). Traditionally, viewed from an economic perspective, higher education has been treated largely as a public good. More...

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9 février 2018

QA bodies note progress in fighting academic corruption

By Mary Beth Marklein. Early research findings on academic corruption suggest that accreditation and quality assurance bodies in some countries are having success in handling the problem, but questions about how to deal with the unwieldy issue remain a work in progress. More...

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9 février 2018

HE accreditation sector faces pressure to reform

By Mary Beth Marklein. The higher education accreditation community, which confers the quality-assurance seal of approval that allows United States colleges and universities access to billions of dollars of federal student aid, must do a better job of explaining itself to the public if it wants to reverse waning public confidence in higher education. More...

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9 février 2018

Republicans seek more transparency in higher education

By Mary Beth Marklein. As the United States House of Representatives prepares to take up the primary piece of federal higher education legislation for the first time in nearly 10 years, the party lines couldn’t be clearer: Republicans are proposing a comprehensive rewrite of the law, and Democrats say they will fight tooth and nail to prevent passage of what they see as a deeply flawed proposal. More...

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9 février 2018

Rise in intergovernmental involvement in HE

By Mary Beth Marklein. There has long been a tension between government expectations for its universities and the goals and mission of a country’s institutions of higher education. And universities have long clung to the idyllic notion that the pursuit of knowledge – the truth – knows no political boundaries. More...

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9 février 2018

The global education imperative: Building bridges

By Allan E Goodman. For over a millennium now, the New World has inspired global imperatives. Explorers, warriors, priests and emperors have headed in our direction. For more than a hundred years, educators have joined their company as a way of mastering the future. In return, the women and men of the Americas have reminded us all that we need to first be clearer about what we teach in the present. More...

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