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March 22, 2019
News Items from the Week of March 22, 2019
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‘Rebels and Rage’ extract: The many angles to the free higher education debate | Is there legitimacy to the ANC’s position that free higher education for all is not immediately feasible in [South Africa]? Of course, it depends on what one means by free higher education. Should it simply involve tuition, as in Germany and Mexico, or should it take a comprehensive form and cover accommodation and...
March 15, 2019
News Items from the Week of March 15, 2019
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Subtle biases block women from leading universities | In 2014, the first year with available data for vice-rectors, the proportion of female vice-rectors in these 36 countries was 24.3%. Thus, the female share in recent years seems to be only slightly increasing. Regarding the top institutional position, meaning rector or the equivalent, such as president or vice-chancellor, in the 24 countries...
March 12, 2019
News Items from the Week of March 8, 2019
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US loses one in five top spots in global subject ranking | The United States’ higher education system is continuing to decline in the global rankings, losing almost 20% of top rankings for its university departments in the 2019 QS World University Rankings by Subject, which ranks more than 1,200 universities in 78 locations across 48 single subjects and five broad subject areas.
March 1, 2019
News Items from the Week of March 1, 2019
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Has marketisation of higher education reached its limits? | Quality metanarratives, made up of an overlapping number of norms, standards and agencies, offer images of transparency, accountability and excellence within a context of public funding cuts and rising consumerism. Studies show that this market-based quality brouhaha, replete with league tables and rankings, bears no tangible transform...
February 22, 2019
News Items from the Week of February 22, 2019
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Students: the missing voices in internationalisation | The main perception among scholars is that internationalisation discourses are predominantly about mobility. However, the question is mobility from whose perspective? Student mobility viewed through an organisational lens does not capture mobile students’ viewpoint.
International student enrolment set to exceed UK numbers | For the first ti...
February 15, 2019
News Items from the Week of February 15, 2019
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Dearth of evidence of value of international cooperation | The benefits of international cooperation in higher education are widely assumed and the costs of such cooperative activities are occasionally acknowledged in the professional and academic discourses on higher education internationalisation. But until recently, the dearth of empirical evidence on the outcomes and impact of international...
February 8, 2019
News Items from the Week of February 8, 2019
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Here is How Countries Rank in Education | Globally, there has been significant progress in educational attainment over the last few decades. However, the OECD warned in a September report that data show that inequities that manifest early in life – including socio-economic status, gender, immigrant background and geographic location – “tend to accumulate throughout life, first in education and...
February 1, 2019
News Items from the Week of February 1, 2019
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Embracing the town and gown revolution | The myth of the ivory tower was shattered. The conference illustrated that there is no longer a zero-sum calculation between civic engagement and academic excellence. In fact, it was revealed that in the Global North the closer the co-operation and the better the understanding of the separated but connected roles of town and gown, the greater the rewards...
January 31, 2019
News Items from the Week of January 25, 2019
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In age of AI, universities will need to rethink their purpose | There are multiple challenges facing education in a future digital society. The digital university will see the rise of artificial intelligence, deep learning (machine learning), robotisation, ‘intelligent systems’ in manufacturing and ‘Industry 4.0’ strategies, sometimes called the ‘fourth industrial revolution’, which presage wha...
News Items from the Week of January 18, 2019
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Is internationalisation creating inequality in higher education? | If we assume that internationalisation of higher education improves the quality of education and research and if this process is undertaken only by higher education institutions that are already engaged in it and not by those that are not and are therefore more in need of it, the result can only be growing inequality between hig...
