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Quality versus access in expanding higher education 24 Aug 2013 | 12:08 pm
Undoubtedly, the greatest competitive challenge facing schools, colleges and universities today is adjusting to non-stop change brought about by the external environment. As representing one of th ...
Do partnerships advance internationalisation? 24 Aug 2013 | 12:06 pm
It is taken for granted that cross-border university partnerships and agreements work to advance the cause of internationalisation and bring significant opportunities and benefits to students, res ...
Harnessing technology to improve the student experience 24 Aug 2013 | 12:04 pm
With increased university fees, high living expenses and the knowledge that up to 160 graduates are chasing every job, students in the United Kingdom are becoming more selective about where they c ...
Addicted to success 24 Aug 2013 | 12:02 pm
In the summer of 2011, a Dutch social psychologist was in the process of losing his job. His name was Diederik Stapel and he had committed an unimaginable fraud: over 10 years he had falsified dat ...
Tackling the remedial classes problem 24 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
In my previous blog, I suggested that the United States' regional accrediting organisations could help resolve the unfortunate misalignment between the bulk of the nation's secondary schools and t ...
Top universities break rules on gender discrimination 24 Aug 2013 | 11:58 am
Around two thirds of China's top research universities still have policies that can be used to limit the proportion of women students, despite tighter government regulations against gender discrim ...
As degree mills proliferate, new measures published 24 Aug 2013 | 11:56 am
The arrest of four people on charges of selling fake diplomas, including three in Can Tho in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam, has highlighted the proliferation of degree mills. Racketeers have ...
Damning HE council report on university performance 24 Aug 2013 | 11:54 am
Less than 5% of black African and mixed-race youth succeed at university, and more than half of all first-year entrants never graduate at all. This was revealed in a hard-hitting report released b ...
Despite growing numbers, job market still demands PhDs 24 Aug 2013 | 11:50 am
Despite a 38% increase in PhDs in OECD countries - reaching 213,000 in 2009 - there is still a premium on people with doctorates, according to a recent analysis of labour market and mobility indic ...
Wits drive to lure top African postgraduate students 24 Aug 2013 | 11:48 am
The University of the Witwatersrand has set a side R90 million (US$8.7 million) for bursaries as the institution embarks on an intensive drive to attract the finest postgraduate students from acro ...
