Higher Education

Full Text: Note ban may slow down economy, says Pranab Mukherjee

Our interactions at the conferences at Rashtrapati Bhavan have yielded several positives in areas like: faculty sourcing and development; ICT for pedagogic refinement; research and innovation; industry-academia…

Bridging Higher Ed’s Rhetoric & Reality in a Changing World — Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation —

But our view of “what counts” as higher education is far too limited and parochial, our existing delivery systems are too leaden and inflexible, and new ways of…

TAFE’s need to step up and be proactive on research

Seizing that opportunity could help secure their financial future as well as meeting an unmet need in the knowledge economy, he told last week’s TAFE NSW seminar on higher education.

Higher education must be pursued in a changing job market

If we aspire to be an innovative knowledge economy we cannot retreat from educating for what we can’t possibly imagine. A bachelor’s graduate is expected to be able to generate solutions to problems that are sometimes complex and…

Global university governance models: lessons to learn

Governance of a university involves the understanding of types of universities and their emerging roles in a knowledge-driven economy that rests on the foundational requirement of human capital and social development. The world over…

Nigeria: Yemi Ogunbiyi — Consolidating Scholarship

He is a quiet but huge contributor to Nigeria’s knowledge economy. And that did not start with the printing and publishing of school textbooks. After leaving his job as a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ife (now Obafemi…

New UK universities to deliver choice and opportunity for students

University Alliance Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell said:

The right regime for higher education and research is essential for building the knowledge economy of the future. These plans…

Consensus, contradictions in African higher education

The fundamental issue of whether Africa’s future lies in manufacturing beneficiation or the knowledge economy will be key to deciding what kind of higher education system must be built, says Dr Blade Nzimande, South Africa’s higher…