International The revival of polytechnics | As African countries prepared to gain independence in the 1960s, each one started to establish a national university. Mauritius, a small island with a population then of barely three quarters of a million, was no exception. Universities facing serious financial crisis | Kenya’s universitiesContinue Reading
“For the latter challenge, the National Research Council’s (NRC) statement on scientific research on education expects no less: the research process itself is “highly contested territory,” often producing equivocal and non-durable results, explored via multiple methodologies, and clarified in periodic “syntheses of research findings…” (2) Understandably, the organization and integrationContinue Reading
International Professional service staff feel ‘undervalued’, study suggest | Professional support staff’s crucial role in improving student outcomes is often overlooked by senior management, a study claims. University rankings ignore teaching | Over the past decade, the major and unhelpful intrusion into both the national and the international worlds ofContinue Reading
International Report finds little evidence for the benefits of for-profit higher education outside the UK | A report published today by the Centre for Global Higher Education shows that the growth of the private higher education sector, especially the for-profits, has led to few improvements in the quality of provision.Continue Reading
[W]e wished to recover the thoughts of early practitioners who – with an intellectual freedom and honesty to consider the possibilities of institutional research at its origins – recognized the need for an authentic institutional research apparatus to empower a scientific community for the study of higher education settings. InContinue Reading
