Connecting higher education and development

University World News - AFRICA: Connecting higher education and development: "The Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa, HERANA, has gathered the most comprehensive and systematic data on a group of Sub-Saharan African universities ever compiled. Research over three years in eight countries uncovered urgent needs for a 'pact' on the important role of higher education in development, strengthening the 'academic core' in universities, and greater coordination among higher education actors."

Where in the World is President John J. DeGioia? - The Hoya - News

Where in the World is President John J. DeGioia? - The Hoya - News: "Touching on his broad international experiences, DeGioia explained that every place he visits teaches him something new.
'Each place has its own distinct character and culture with a unique set of questions,' said DeGioia. 'The lens in which I explore the different countries and cultures is through the lens of higher education. I tried during my travels to engage my colleagues to discuss the contributions higher education can make to expand the meaning of the term ‘globalization.''
In November, DeGioia devoted a week to developing higher education in India, heading a delegation of university leaders visiting New Delhi to study the educational infrastructure and seeing the Child Rights Information Center in Badarpur."

New UC Davis MBA curriculum to integrate globalization, ethics and sustainability

UC Davis News & Information :: New UC Davis MBA curriculum to integrate globalization, ethics and sustainability: "The UC Davis Graduate School of Management will strengthen its internationally ranked MBA program this fall with a new, innovative curriculum that further integrates globalization, responsible business ethics and sustainability.

The curriculum renewal — the most fundamental in the school’s history — is designed to better prepare graduates with the real-world practice, analytical and technical skills and leadership training needed to succeed in the business world of today and tomorrow."

Goodbye to globalisation

Goodbye to globalisation: "he 20th century's two most important conceptual innovations, “totalitarianism” and “globalisation,” were originally Italian. The first term defined the tumultuous middle of the 20th century, the latter its benign ending. “Totalitarianism” finally disintegrated in 1989, and globalisation prevailed."

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."

Mixed success for developing world science, says UNESCO - SciDev.Net

Mixed success for developing world science, says UNESCO - SciDev.Net: "Developing countries more than doubled their output of scientific publications between 2002 and 2008, but their share of patent applications remained extremely low, according to the latest UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) science report.

The developing world's share of science publications rose from a fifth to nearly a third during this time, according to the 'UNESCO Science Report 2010: Current Status of Science around the World'."

The university, diversity and autonomy

University World News - GLOBAL: The university, diversity and autonomy: "Comparing these models can help clarify the potential future choices universities must make in the face of a problem that commonly confronts them - how to affirm the university's valuable social role, while resisting two recurrent threats to its autonomy: 'the state as social engineer' and 'the student as customer',' Graham told University World News."

Chronicle of Higher Education Audio: Tech Therapy - Download free podcast episodes by Tech Therapy on iTunes.

Chronicle of Higher Education Audio: Tech Therapy - Download free podcast episodes by Tech Therapy on iTunes.: "Scott Carlson, a Chronicle reporter, and Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant who works with colleges, talk about the headaches, anxieties, and general problems you might be having with technology on your college campus. File sharing, security, dealing with vendors, figuring out how to talk to your president, or how to talk to your CIO -- it's all game for a therapy session. The podcast is interactive. Scott and Warren will take your questions at techtherapy@chronicle.com. Look for new installments every other Thursday."

United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace

United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace: "UNU-ISP takes an innovative, integrated approach to sustainability — one that encompasses global change, development, peace and security. The Institute bridges these cross-cutting issues through research, educational, and collaborative initiatives with the aim of solving current problems and anticipating future challenges."

UK science society network to go global - SciDev.Net

UK science society network to go global - SciDev.Net: "The Learned Societies for Development (LSfD) network was launched last month (15 October) under the auspices of the UK National Commission for UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).

Many scientific societies — networks of researchers in a specific field — carry out capacity building work such as mentoring and exchange schemes, providing equipment and advice, running training courses and providing free access to publications.

At a meeting in June last year, UK societies agreed that their strength lay in large networks, which could nurture researchers in developing countries at a grassroots level and connect them directly to global networks they may have been isolated from before."

OECD ministers debate education for new skills

University World News - GLOBAL: OECD ministers debate education for new skills: "As background to the talks, the OECD said the recession had forced most of its member governments to cut spending, including on education. Cuts had fallen mainly on higher education, but vocational education and training was another vulnerable sector.

A dramatic consequence was the sharp deterioration of the labour market, especially for the young - in the OECD area there were nearly 15 million young people unemployed, a rise of six percentage points to almost 19% in the two years to end-2009.

Meanwhile, the nature of skills needed for jobs was changing rapidly, with 'jobs that have not yet been created, using technologies that have not yet been invented, to solve problems that cannot be foreseen', said the OECD."

Internationalisation: past, present, future

University World News - GLOBAL: Internationalisation: past, present, future: "The IAU's 3rd Global Survey Report, Internationalisation of Higher Education: Global trends, regional perspectives, is based on the analysis of survey responses from 745 institutions in 115 countries from all regions of the world, as well as a number of national university associations.

It represents the most geographically comprehensive collection and analysis of data on the internationalisation of higher education ever undertaken. Previous editions of the Global Survey were published in 2003 and 2005."

Alarming fall in Chinese student numbers

University World News - AUSTRALIA: Alarming fall in Chinese student numbers: "For the first time in more than 14 years, an Australian minister for tertiary education has gone to China to try to head off a potentially disastrous collapse in the number of young Chinese studying in Australia.

Senator Chris Evans, a former immigration minister in the previous Labor government, headed a four-day, high-level university delegation to China last week. It was Evans' first international visit as Tertiary Education Minister and was, he said, intended 'to deepen educational cooperation between Australia and China and explore new opportunities for collaboration between universities in both countries'.

But the trip also signified that the cries of alarm emerging from Australia's universities about the prospect of a catastrophic fall in enrolments of Chinese students had begun to influence government decisions."

Stanford Food Summit encourages researchers to collaborate across disciplines - Office of Communications & Public Affairs - Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford Food Summit encourages researchers to collaborate across disciplines - Office of Communications & Public Affairs - Stanford University School of Medicine: "More than 350 members of the campus community attended the inaugural Stanford Food Summit Nov. 3 for a day of cross-disciplinary intellectual ferment about food-related problems.

Researchers from all seven Stanford schools gave presentations describing the top food questions in their fields and suggesting ways the university's affiliates could collaborate to address them. Two research-development workshops gave all participants the opportunity to brainstorm how to turn their ideas into concrete research proposals."

Global Education & Liberal Education

Liberal Education | Summer 2010 | Global Education & Liberal Education: "American students will almost certainly be involved in rising levels of global interaction—often in their work, at least sometimes in their leisure, and always in their citizenship. Moreover, expanding global connections, combined with obvious shifts in the global balance of power, make it clear that China, India, Brazil, and other regions, in addition to Europe, will strongly shape our national future. Contemporary American students will have to develop a greater awareness of diverse parts of the globe than was expected of their counterparts of a generation ago, and they will probably have to adjust to some modifications to the idea of the United States as the sole superpower.

At the same time, many American students—amid great variety—are rather parochial in their experience and education, which creates a very real gap between the world taking shape around them and their own intellectual comfort zone."