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International MPs say ‘inadequate’ schools careers advice worsening skills crisis | MPs have delivered a scathing report on careers advice in many schools, warning that the “inadequate” guidance being given to youngsters is fuelling the country’s skills crisis. Too many young people were leaving schools in England without having theContinue Reading

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International 5 Reasons We Will Avoid Edtech Conferences | EdSurge has done our community a great service by aggregating (in a handy circular diagram) many of our postsecondary edtech conferences and convenings. This curated map of annual edtech conferences also perfectly coincides with our newly emerging realization that neither ofContinue Reading

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International European universities ‘losing monopoly’ over research | Universities in Europe are losing their “monopoly” over the production of research, but gaining dominance in the training of PhD students, according to a leading scholar in political economy. Asia University Rankings 2016: India leads in South Asia, but its neighbours areContinue Reading

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International Global citizens or good citizens? | There has been much hype of late about building ‘global citizens’ out of our internationally mobile higher education students and academics. But, to what extent is this aspiration for a global citizenry misguided and perhaps even disingenuous? EU should ease work permit termsContinue Reading

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International Reservation in higher education works as intended: Study | A pioneering study published in the American Economic Review dismisses the commonly held belief that reservation policy harms the intended beneficiaries by placing them in academic situations for which they are ill-prepared and not suited. International students are worth moreContinue Reading