IMCIC 2011

IMCIC 2011: "Based on Eli Cohen’s seminal paper1, Informing Science has evolved into an important and useful trans-discipline. T. Grandon Gill2 applied this emerging trans-discipline in the context of a detailed critical analysis of the academic activities in Business Schools, and made very important suggestions for the design (or re-design) of this academic field. Gill’s analysis and design recommendation are also important for other academic fields especially those related to professional activities like Engineering, Medicine, Scientific Consulting, problem oriented research, action research, etc. Cohen’s and Gill’s seminal works inspired the organization of the International Symposium on Academic Informing Science and Engineering: AISE 2011."

Who Are the Undergraduates? - Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Who Are the Undergraduates? - Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Roughly 22 million undergraduates attended college at some point in 2007-8, and the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study from that year provides a snapshot of where students are coming from and how they pursue their educations. More than a third of all undergraduates attend part-time, and most are not affluent. That's reflected in where students go to college—more than twice as many undergraduates attend the University of Phoenix's online campus as go to an Ivy League college."

English and foreign students 'won't be used as cash cows' - Scotsman.com News

English and foreign students 'won't be used as cash cows' - Scotsman.com News: "THE Scottish Government has insisted it has no plans to use English and overseas students' fees to fund higher education north of the Border.
However, calls were growing last night for the SNP administration to come up with a sustainable plan after university chiefs said the current arrangement was only sustainable for a year.

The recent budget announced by the Scottish Government reveaADVERTISEMENT

led the number of fully funded undergraduate places is being cut."

Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries - Academic and Professional Books - Cambridge University Press

Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries - Academic and Professional Books - Cambridge University Press: "The advance of economic globalization has led many academics, policy-makers, and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and capital flows, developing nations that cut public services are risking detrimental effects to the populace. Conventional wisdom suggests that it is the poorer members of these societies who stand to lose the most from these pressures on welfare protections, but this new study argues for a more complex conceptualization of the subject. Nita Rudra demonstrates how and why domestic institutions in developing nations have historically ignored the social needs of the poor; globalization neither takes away nor advances what never existed in the first place. It has been the lower- and upper-middle classes who have benefited the most from welfare systems and, consequently, it is they who are most vulnerable to globalization's race to the bottom."

re: Education: Globalization, Higher Ed and Academic Integrity (Randy Black, US) | WAIS

re: Education: Globalization, Higher Ed and Academic Integrity (Randy Black, US) | WAIS: "Did we not discuss the practice of running submitted term papers, etc. via the various online and offline PC apps that look for common phrases, copied material and thoughts, and outright plagiarism? I recall mentioning that all such papers submitted at local universities must be submitted electronically and thus are automatically scanned for such crimes/misdemeanors as plagiarism on the front end of the review/grading process."

University World News - AFRICA: What happened to the Pan-African University?

University World News - AFRICA: What happened to the Pan-African University?: "Plans for a university that will stretch across Africa and be a 'flagship institution of higher education' will go ahead, despite political problems with two of its five planned centres, African Union commissioner and steward of the project, Jean-Pierre Ezin, has insisted."