news2college4: 2015

Wednesday, 23 December 2015

Quantify off employability and social well

Employability must be regarded as a concept that is outside the bubble of economic growth. Higher education can not be managed in the labor market, but by the needs of society. Higher education is a human right and, as such, it must be available to everyone.

European Union students, or ESU, recommended that our whole society come together with respect to the development of higher education. There is no single organization responsible for the global development of higher education. ESU see the development of higher education as a puzzle to be completed only when everyone gives their best, unbiased contribution.

The European Union (EU) called social dimension is one of the key points of the Bologna process from the student perspective. But what does it mean?

According to the ministerial conference held in London in 2007, social dimension encourages social inclusion, reducing inequalities and raising aspirations and levels of knowledge, skills and competences in society.

It also includes social diversity with regard to participation in and completion of higher education at all levels.

This not only sounds like an ambitious plan, but a very complex and perhaps rather unfocused one. However, it is easy to understand why it is called dimension. Almost all decisions made in higher education have a social impact.

When a huge budget cuts pressure higher education institutions to perform more with less, they have to justify the different purposes they serve.

Whether it is training people for active citizenship, facilitating social mobility, improving skills required in the labor market or performing high-quality research, these activities are weighted against each other in competition for funds and creating a more efficient system of education.

The rising unemployment of recent graduates in Europe stressed the needs of the labor market in connection with the reforms of higher education.

Including my home country of Pakistan, Canada is the fourth country in which I was educated. After gaining some college credit at home, I started off my journey as an international student follows an undergraduate degree in business in the United States and Dubai.

Although, I faced enormous challenges on several levels.

These challenges ranged from culture shock and adjustment to the new environment of racial discrimination. At one point I found myself laughing out loud when I heard a Canadian comedian Russell Peters said that the Middle East are today black people for what they had to go through since 9/11.

Just a few weeks ago, the highest decision-making body of the European Students' Union (ESU) - The Steering Committee, composed of 47 national student unions from 39 countries - adopted a resolution calling for the abolition of the idea of introducing a European Masters Degree loan guarantees.

Earlier, ESU expressed serious concerns about this new instrument, included in the new Erasmus for all proposals under the multi-annual financial framework (MFF) for 2014-20. ESU's detailed position on the program can be found here.

ESU has a clear policy of support favored as a means of student support through loans. This is related to our belief that higher education is a social responsibility that should receive public financial support.

Four or five trees, another park. The current crisis in Turkey reportedly started because of them. Actually, this is not the case - issues involved transcend the environment. It's also not just about one person or one party; it was about freedom of speech, live independently and against dictatorship and restrictions on people's lives. Let me explain.

Justice and Development Party - the Turkish AKP - was in power since 2002, and has won three around the country in general elections. In every election thereafter, the government party took first place with an increased percentage of votes.

Plans to raise tuition fees in Armenia to 30% can be confusing results of the Armenian people, as it would be to reduce the ability to take advantage of higher education.

Tuition fees have increased by 15% on average in May, many governments and universities. This is coated with economic development has given us students pay $ 1,048 in tuition fees for nearly a year nominal wage just $ 260 a month.

Armenian students already hard hit by the economic crisis and high unemployment, and the students are facing a grim picture of the future.

Who is Nelson Mandela: As a young South African I have a strange question asked? The history I learned that he was the first black president of a democratic South Africa, a martyr who was imprisoned for 27 years, Nobel Peace Prize winners - among many other awards for his great political reform.

Often, this knowledge was accompanied by a picture of a gray-haired man in camouflage shirt waving to the crowd to admire; withered man staring from his prison cell on Robin Island; or the young man in boxing attire with raised fists.

But for 21-year-old student who never experienced apartheid and oppression, which is Nelson Mandela in relation to the new dilemmas that the 19-year-old democracy brought?

When it was announced that the Islamic and Asian Civilization Studies and Titus, of course, will be mandatory for students in private universities in Malaysia, has caused great controversy.

Public universities in Malaysia have the mandate to teach Titus all its students. The move to expand the private universities was controversial because private universities are considered to have more autonomy.

Titus is a course that teaches about Islam, Malay, Indian, Chinese and Western civilization - reflects the ethnic configuration in Malaysia (except the western part). Content is historic, talking about "how we got here '- which should have been covered in high school.

Start the new school year is the perfect time to elaborate on what is waiting for the students and the students movement in higher education.

Today, the European student movement must fight to protect their guiding principles and foundations - namely, that higher education, and should be considered a public good and a public responsibility.

The reader who is familiar with the ideas and goals of higher education might say, "but the principles we talk about common sense and what the government is aiming for" I'd have to answer that, unfortunately, this is not the case. - And there are indications that the decision-makers who do not believe in these principles are becoming extinct.

The Quest for Quality for Students project, managed by the European Students' Union has analyzed the views of students on the quality of higher education and identified areas in which students can become more involved in the process of quality assurance and enhancement.

The research team has worked hard on this project for three years and presented the final outcomes of 31 October 2013. The findings are published in four research publications and one manual that anyone can download for free on the project website.

Quality is a multi-dimensional concept

The debate about the quality of higher education has often been at the forefront of government related this concept to economic indicators, such as the employability of graduates and efficiency.

Giants movement approaches grow older and begin to retire. It is time for a new generation to take responsibility for the promotion and expansion of post-secondary education as a universal opportunity, that the battle for education as a public good, public accountability and inalienable human right.

The evidence on the two major events in international education has recently been shown that the student movement is ready and able to take the challenge.

Over the past decade, as higher education in Europe moved from an elite privilege to a mass phenomenon, institutions and government strained to radically change their admissions statistics. However, access to higher education still tends to stay in the upper and middle strata of society something.

The next step - from mass to universal higher education - requires imagination, vision and, most importantly, the courage of the heads of institutions and governments. Simply speaking, the universities can no longer afford to behave as elite institutions and governments can no longer afford them.

As a young South African I ask you something strange question: Who was the Nelson Mandela? The history I learned that he was the first black president of a democratic South Africa, a martyr who was imprisoned for 27 years, Nobel Peace Prize winners - among many other awards for his great political reform.

[This article was published as a tribute to Nelson Mandela, who died last Thursday. It first appeared in the University World News July 18, 2013]

Often, this knowledge was accompanied by a picture of a gray-haired man in camouflage shirt waving to the crowd to admire; withered man staring from his prison cell on Ruben Island; or the young man in boxing attire with raised fists.

On 9 February 2014, Swiss voters approved a referendum which aims to restrict immigration to Switzerland. Since the measures could be contrary to the principle of free movement of people, which is one of the principles of the European Union, the EU suspended all current negotiations with Switzerland until the situation is resolved.
This decision will have a serious negative impact on students and researchers since Switzerland will no longer be part of the Erasmus + and the Horizon 2020 program for the exchange of students and research funding in the upcoming academic year.
However, more problems for the Swiss higher education community can develop as a result of a referendum, depending on its implementation.
The problems for these programs is going to happen because the negotiations between the EU and Switzerland concerning them are not finished before the referendum was held. The EU made the extension of the free movement of people new EU member states, Croatia is a condition for signing the Erasmus + and the Horizon 2020 contracts.

Education has come to be understood solely as an economic good, rather than a tool for social development. Education market determined following an instrumentalist approach that looks at education solely as an economic good and the resources for progress.

This industry-oriented educational approach was initially applied to vocational education and training. During the 1990s, this approach was expanded to higher education as well as neo-liberalism, in which economic growth is considered the only possible way to maintain prosperity grabs.

Industry-oriented education is access to learning, teaching and assessment that caters to the needs of the industry, ignoring the multiple purposes of higher education as a public good and a public responsibility that reflects the needs of society as a whole. It favors standardization than harmonization of the various educational systems.

In this context, higher education is seen as a knowledge industry, higher education institutions as providers and students as consumers of education and human capital for the labor market. This approach reduces the numbers of people and customers.

For several years there have been discussions about setting up scholarships for international students degree in Finland. Developments related to the ongoing trial of tuition for non-EU and EEA students (2010-14) reported University World News several times.

In addition to the trial, during the regime of the current government (2011-15) and the fees are discussed each spring in state negotiations on its borders consumption.

The two main positions focus on export education and taxpayer arguments, but they are based on several misconceptions.

Education exports and 'necessity' compensation

The most commonly used argument in the current debate is based on the concept of 'export education'.

The concept in Finland roughly corresponds to the British concept of transnational education, but is broader in the sense that education exports include all the commercial elements of education, such as teaching content, capacity building, infrastructure and school management and curriculum.

Studying abroad is something that everyone should do at a young age. I feel that education abroad experience helps shape people's attitudes about life; helps with opening the mind of other people, cultures and ways of living life.

The opportunity to study abroad - in Italy - came my way through the upward bound initiative at Kent State University. The program works with students like me to our college-ready and increase educational opportunities for students in the first-generation, low-income families.

I was upward Bound student for about five years and I have formed many connections on campus. So when I was told about the possibility of under-served incoming Kent State students to study abroad, I knew it would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience that will be useful for me.

One thing that amazed me is that Italy has such a rich and beautiful culture. While in Florence, I took 'Roman work' class, which tells the influence of the Roman Empire in Europe.

My name is Chan His M. I undertake doctoral research in cross-cultural theory at the University of Cardiff. I am a Hong Kong citizen living, studying and working in the UK since I was 17. Whereas the tension growing in Hong Kong between the Umbrella movement - Occupy Central - and the government, I feel that it is time to write.

Having the experience of growing up in mainland China, Hong Kong and the UK, have never been fully recognized any of them.

I mainlander, as I hold Hong Kong citizenship. Not real Hong Longer was like I had the experience of growing up on the land, and for many that means I am to some extent brainwashed. I'm not British, even though I have lived in this country for almost 10 years and can speak English fluently.

Thoroughly There will always be seen as an outsider, at least for a long, long time.

But as an outsider, maybe I can see the big picture in a more objective way. I'm not brainwashed by any '-ism', as I do not believe that there is only one ultimate "-ism" that is suitable for all human civilization.

I've always wanted to be a manager and liked to be involved in solving complex problems, so I worked hard with my engineering education to acquire many of the skills necessary to become such a person.

I imagined become a global leader of the 21st century - a quick study with an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, with the ability to work outside their area of expertise when necessary and work anywhere in the world, make decisions quickly and to communicate with any kind of person,

How could acquire these skills?

Phase Ideas-gathering identify skill-set

I spent almost two months reading the survey reports on the problems faced by large corporations, the study of future trends and many other different things to identify what are the skills for global managers. I used LinkedIn, and a few of my social media friends to identify the skills needed for such an interdisciplinary global manager. Here's what I learned:

There are six key elements of entrepreneurial university, according to Professor duress Ramjugernath, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa - good leadership and management, capacity incentives, entrepreneurship in teaching and learning, the culture of entrepreneurship, partnership stakeholders and internationalization.

Innovation and entrepreneurship for development and nation-building is what the university really had to do, he is a pro vice chancellor of innovation, commercialization and entrepreneurship.

"But the university so that subsidies are driven by formulas, so they are guided by the world rankings, so you are guided as the number one or number two in the country in terms of research, they have lost perspective on what it means to be a university and what it means to build a nation . "

All universities in the Netherlands now offer entrepreneurship education, and from next year it will be compulsory in vocational schools, said project manager Dr. Peter Gibbous. But the content varies greatly between institutions and faculties - and that's too long to integrate entrepreneurship education into the curriculum.

Gibbous researcher for Panetta, a Dutch company with 150 employees that provides support to decision makers and carried out research in the economic, social and traffic areas for national and international clients. Headquartered in the Netherlands, in Zoetermeer, Panetta also has offices in Belgium, Turkey, China and Kazakhstan.

It is exposure to the South African Technology Network Eighth Annual International Conference on the 2015 "Education for entrepreneurship for economic reconstruction", held in the Science Park in the Vaal University of Technology from October 19 to 21

Entrepreneurship is desirable

According to Euros tat data, said Gibbous, across Europe there are low proportions of young people aged 15 to 19 who were self-employed in relation to total employment, with the most entrepreneurial young Italians either by necessity or nature.

South African government to use funding mechanisms sharply increase production of doctor of science and research at universities. Now smart way should be found to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation in higher education, said Professor Ahmed Baw, Vice-Rector Durban University of Technology.

He also argued for university programs to include 'general education' component, including entrepreneurship, for stronger partnerships between universities and local stakeholders to drive entrepreneurial activity, and for more opportunities within universities for students to engage in entrepreneurial activities.

Baw was delivering a keynote address at the South African Technology Network Eighth Annual International Conference on the 2015 "Education for entrepreneurship for economic reconstruction", held in the Science Park in the Vaal University of Technology in the province of Gauteng from 19 to 21 October

South Africa's biggest challenges are the low economic growth, unemployment and inequality, said Baw. But in the villages around the country, people have become dependent on remittances - money sent relatives working in the cities - and it has destroyed the local economy and economic activity, and thus the ability of communities to rise out of poverty.

It's kind of output designed to make a statement.

Last week the six editors and May 31 editorial board members resigned Lingua, a prominent linguistics journal, after a disagreement with the journal publisher Elsevier. Announcement re-voltage concerns the relationship between scientists and non-profit enterprises and the future of scientific publishing.

[This article from The Chronicle higher education, America's leading higher education publication. It is presented here is based on an agreement with the University World News.]

Lingua editors are concerned that some libraries can no longer afford the cost of publication. The "negotiations" letters were sent Elsevier early October, citing "Change academic publishing paradigm", they presented a number of conditions. Topping the list: Lingua will become completely open access to publications and Elsevier will give the editors of the journal property.

Moroccan academic Amati Omni suspended its three-week hunger strike after authorities completed a travel ban imposed on him. But he was accused of destabilizing the state security and may face up to five years in prison.

"I have suspended my hunger strike on October 29 after the court's decision to bring me back my freedom to travel outside Morocco," 55-year-old Omni, a professor of political history at the Institute of African Studies at Mohamed V University in Rabat, the letter said.

"But my battle is not over, because I was invited to the Tribunal [Tribunal de première instance de Rabat] November 19," said Omni, adding that he was "accused of destabilizing national security on the basis of Article 206 of the Moroccan Penal Code."

German course guidance centers are increasingly turning to see students with their parents. The helicopter parent phenomenon can at least partially be due to the increasing number of under-age school-leavers go on to university.

Guidance Centers are available to students at German universities to advise them on issues such as structuring studies, preparation for exams, or career aspects of coping with stress. Now, parents are supporting all children visiting the centers. This is especially the case for first-year students.

Parents' concerns ranged from whether their children are decided for the true subject of study, the anxiety over their need to make their way in the big cities. Some inquire about how their children are done in the tests. However, this behavior still tends to be the exception. "Most of the students free from home relatively quickly," says Patrick Honaker, a spokesman for the Cologne University.

Close to a doubling of foreign nationals to the academic degree in Denmark from 2008 to 2014 is a step forward, but the government should do more to ensure that foreign students to stay and work, according to the Minister of Higher Education and Science Seven Lune Larsen.

International students now make up nearly 10 students in Denmark, after having risen from 13,689 in 2008 to 26,243 in 2014, a jump of 92%.

10 biggest countries are sending Norway (2948), Germany (2,622), Romania (2116), Sweden (1579), Lithuania (1347), Bulgaria (1117), Poland (874), Hungary (873), while Italy and Iceland ( and 727).

"It's good to have so many foreign students in Denmark, but when we use our resources to educate them, we also need to do more to stay and work in Denmark after graduation," said Lune Larsen in a statement in the press,

So he began to work on developing a strategy to ensure international graduates to stay in Denmark, he said.

Education and Culture Minister Sunni Grahn-Laasonen and Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Lenity Toivakka last week presented a proposal to parliament to remove legal obstacles to the export of Finnish education products and expertise.

"There is huge potential for education exports from Finland, but today the legal issues blocking them. We are now taking steps to remove these barriers," says Grahn-Laasonen. "The goal is to create more space for the sale of education abroad, and thus improve the resource base for research."

Australia ranks "very, very bad", the commercialization of research and must rise to Senator Simon Birmingham, Minister of Education and Training, in a speech to the Australian Research Council.

He said that all the rankings, especially the comparison with other OECD countries, show Australia are "among the best in the world for the quality of research results."

"But it will be critical over the next little to lift Australia's results in terms of cooperation with the industry and in terms of the commercialization of research. Since we rank very, very bad when it comes to cooperation between universities and industry in terms of research entrepreneurs," he said.

Zimbabwe has come up with a law compelling higher and higher education minister to ensure that at least half of ministerial appointed for all university councils are women, as prescribed by the Constitution of this country.

General Laws Amendment Act, which has been channeled through Parliament Emerson Mnangagwa vice president, is also trying to achieve a "fair regional representation" in the universities.

The law seeks to bring 126 laws in accordance with the Constitution agreed between President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai of the former prime minister in 2013, during the days of the coalition government. The coalition ended in July 2013 with elections won by Mugabe - Tsvangirai claimed to have been furnished.

The sharp decline in oil revenues - Nigeria's main source of foreign exchange - together with tight fiscal policy of the new government, threaten the well-being of Nigerians studying abroad. Many reportedly stranded and there is concern that students could be among the 29,000 Nigerians allegedly targeted repatriation of the British government.

UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimates that there are some 52,000 Nigerian students abroad, including 17,300 in the top destination country of the United Kingdom. New York-based Institute of International Education reports nearly 8,000 Nigerians studying in the United States.

Number of Nigerian students abroad can be much higher, as their numbers in other African countries such as Ghana and South Africa seems to be insufficiently reported.

UK universities face their biggest shake-up in the decades under plans for a further shift towards a market approach announced in the government's consultation on November 6

The new regime designed to reward good teaching will enable high-performance universities increase their tuition fees at the rate of inflation, according to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Green Paper fulfilling our potential: teaching excellence, social mobility and student choice.

The fees have been frozen for a maximum £ 9,000 (US $ 13,550) a year from 2012, when the government lifted the lid with just over £ 3,000. Research shows that all but a handful of universities applying maximum compensation to all its ranks.

On Saturday 17 October 2015, the Second National Education Summit High, organized by the South African Department of Higher Education, together with a wide range of stakeholders, issued Durban Statement on Transformation in Higher Education. After listing the significant transformation gains, a statement addressed to the seven questions must be addressed immediately.

The first three relate to an indefinite "initiatives" regarding student finance and debt, fee structure and the National Student Financial Aid Scheme or NSFAS, which is needed to strengthen. The statement concluded by calling for the relevant role players yearly progress reports in each of the seven nine immediate medium resolutions.

On Tuesday 20 October, the eyewitness News, entitled "SA varsities stalled", he mentioned that the students reporting back.

No one could not be touched by the suffering of refugees, who played on our television screens and in our newspapers over the summer.

During the nearly five years of civil war in Syria, the scale of the tragedy was enormous. And, amid the chaos and displacement of over four million people, the said Foundation estimates that about half of the students in the country currently unable to access the programs of study because of the conflict.

East London has a long and proud history as a place of settlement of refugees and is now one of the most ethnically diverse areas in London. This fact is reflected in our university, the University of East London, or UEL, where we welcome students from more than 120 countries. And, in some small way, in the UEL response to the crisis reflects our immediate location as well as our long-term history.

The world's largest oil exporter goal is to transform its system of higher education. With the recent appointment of Dr. Assam Al-Oakhill as the new Minister of Education, dramatic changes have occurred. The biggest merger of the two ministries - in higher education and the education ministries - in a ministry called the Ministry of Education.

This surprising move has made numerous fears among academics working in the higher education sector. Although large investments in higher education has led to a sharp increase in the number of universities in Saudi Arabia, the move could be seen to threaten or limit this process.

In a recent article in The Times Higher Education, Professor Philip Attach laid out a road map for the new university in Saudi Arabia to achieve world-class status. He cautiously said that the bureaucratic and administrative structures could stand in the way of that goal.

There is much written about online education is huge, unlimited potential for outreach in developed and more in developing countries. I have been involved first hand in facilitating workshops in these countries demonstrate the features and benefits of online delivery, particularly in the expansion of access to higher education.

There is no doubt that online delivery can provide enhanced ability to engage in higher education for students who are located in remote areas, who are engaged in full-time workers, who have family responsibilities or medical conditions that prevent the arrival on campus, but it is not necessarily a cure for all students.

I would suggest that online research presents some significant challenges for many developing countries where the quality of what is available at the level of primary and secondary schools in terms of teaching, curriculum resources and in many cases sub-standard.

More than 2,000 leaders and innovators in education from around the world gathered at the annual WISE Summit in Doha last week. They were asked in the online survey before the event started whether they thought a university degree is essential for economic progression in the 21st century. More than 60% answered no.

This is a group of deeply committed to being one of the speakers, Ricardo Seller, director of SEMCO partner and founder of Ralston-Seller Foundation in Brazil, described as "transformational power of education", and in particular its ability to change the lives of marginalized groups.

This year's winner of the annual award WISE Dr. Sabena Jacobi. It is almost single-handedly transformed the lives of thousands of women in the most difficult circumstances in Afghanistan through education. Then why do so many of these pioneers and innovators to show such skepticism when it comes to access to higher education?

These stories are quite far apart in terms of time and geography, but they share the same feeling and the implications for higher education institutions: International students are not just about income.

• "It is time to stop milking cows in cash", October 2007 - The Age, Australia;
• "University" by foreign students as a cash cow '', September 2012 - The Telegraph, UK;
• "American colleges to cash in on foreign students", March 2015 - CNBC, USA.

One clear trend fueled by the global financial recession increases pressure on the recruitment of foreign students to create a new revenue line. Due to intense pressure to increase enrollment, many institutions failed to detect and adapt to other major trends, and a shift in international student communication patterns, search behavior and expectations for studying abroad.

Known vague line between institutional autonomy and accountability under the spotlight in South Africa, as the Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande Dr. preparing amendments to the Law on Higher Education in the process that will become public in the new year.
Higher Education Amendment The draft law was submitted to the National Assembly last Friday after being approved by the government.
Calls for the government to intervene in universities' transformation programs appeared more frequently in recent weeks, which have seen an unprecedented student protests across the country.
Although priority is given to these protests the pressing issue of student fees and the availability of higher education, wider concerns about the slow pace of transformation - including institutional culture, language and curriculum reform - still in progress.

New scientific advice mechanism of the European Commission, or SAM, was officially launched this week, with the announcement of seven leading scientists who will form the first group of high-level scientific advisors.

Seven members of the High Level Group were selected following an open call for nominations and recommendations of an independent Identification Committee.

They Janus M Bujnicki, professor and head of the Laboratory of bioinformatics and protein engineering, the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland; Pearl Dykstra, Professor of Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Elvira Fortuna to, a professor in the materials science department of the Faculty of Science and Technology, NOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal; Rolf-Dieter Hewer, Director General, European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, or; Julia Slings, Chief Scientist, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; Cerci Villains, director of the Henri Poincare Institute, Paris, France; Henry C. Wegener, Executive Vice President, Chief Academic Officer and director, Technical University of Denmark.

The first Egyptian student elections after 2012 will take place - but with restrictions on candidacy to be seen as objective than the "dissident" students. Polls are due to start on Monday on November 16 and last until December on campuses across the country.

More than 23,000 students are in the election. However, according to a survey rules, students of 'terrorist' and 'punished' group banned running.

The ban was mainly aimed student supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, as prescribed in Egypt as a terrorist organization by the army in 2013 ouster of former president Mohamed Morse, a senior official of the Islamist group's first democratically elected leader of the country.

Students associated with the '6th April Youth Movement, an activist group banned by a court decision, is also prohibited.

MasterCard Foundation hosted its inaugural Young Works Croatia Summit 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa, from October 29 to 30 The set was designed to prepare young people for employment and entrepreneurship in agriculture. Ruben Kym to University World News, talked to Retag Roy, President and CEO of Toronto-based foundation is, at the end of the summit.

UWN: What do you think came out of the summit, in terms of new ideas around the theme of the summit and the development of youth employment strategy sustainable?

University member of the German Rectors' Conference, or HRK, launched a national initiative to counter xenophobia in Germany, in an atmosphere of crisis of refugees and steeply increasing number of cases of verbal and physical attacks, racial in recent months.

At its General Assembly in Kiel on the 10th November, the President Professor Horst Tippler HRK invited members of kunai to support the campaign and defend the fundamental university values of openness, tolerance and diversity.

Despite the fact that the university towns affected by the issue to varying degrees, the university agreed to show solidarity against xenophobia and racism and to use initiative to highlight the position under the logo of "University of openness, tolerance and against xenophobia"

In a statement on its website, Kuna said: "Universities are open-minded place. Different opinions and international exchange form the basis of its research and teaching activities. In light of the increasing xenophobic tendencies that can be seen at the moment, the university is actively advocating this plurality of opinions and exchange. "

Private sector financing of education is gradually overwhelmed doubts about its social value as well as return on investment. So say the authors of a new report from the education management consultant, Parthenon-eye, presented at last week's summit of WISE "Investing for Impact: Quality education for sustainable and inclusive growth" in Doha, Qatar.

The conference - one of the largest international education conferences - brings together public and private sector operators, policy makers, governments, non-governmental organizations and foundations from over 100 countries.

This year's event was opened on Wednesday with a special address to the wife of US President, Michelle Bema, who launched his initiative "Let the girls learn '.

World Innovation Summit for Education, or WISE Summit, held in Doha, Qatar November 3 to 5 under the theme "Investing for Impact: quality education for sustainable and inclusive growth", brought together public and private sector operators, policy makers, governments, non-governmental organizations and foundations from over 100 countries.

One of the surprise success of the Horizon program of the European Union in 2020 this year was the arrival of four Irish universities in the list of 50 best performances of the university. But how do they do that?

As reported in the analysis of University News last week, Nui Galway is Ireland's highest on the list at number 25, together with the University College Cork (30); University College Dublin (31) and Trinity College Dublin (38).

Together they received contracts worth € 62 million (US $ 66.6 million) from the Horizon 2020, or H2020, when decisions on the financing of 24th June this year. However, none of the four was listed among the 50 high-performing universities in the Seventh Framework Programmers (2007-13), or FP7.

This year marks the launch of the most ambitious attempt to change Japanese universities since World War II: in the Super Global University. Since April this year, 37 of Japan's leading universities - selected by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, or MEXT, last year - began to try to redefine the Japanese higher education for a new global era.

But what does Japan stand to gain from this massive reform? What would be successful? What opportunities and problems waiting for? And - depending on the outcome - what Japanese universities to look ten years from now?

Supporters of the reform provides universities as a new "global place 'where the best Japanese intellects and" great "scientists and students from abroad will cooperate advance the frontiers of knowledge.' Super 'global university will generate the technologies required for long renaissance in Chinese economic power.

Guest post: Oliver Donohue
As you will probably be aware, the record number of students now attending university. Consequently, you have to find a way to separate himself from the pack when you finally graduate and enter the world of work. Unless you run your own app or developed a new social media platform, while at the university, there are likely to be many other people with similar skills and qualifications to enter the labor market at the same time as you.
As a result, developing soft skills that you can get ahead in his career has never been more important, especially at a time when reports indicate companies are favoring generalists over those with specific technical knowledge. So, with that in mind, what are the five professional skills that every graduate must possess?

Part-time jobs are a great way for students to make extra money, gain experience in a number of areas and build on teamwork, customer service and all-round ability. But there is a fair amount of competition in a part time job in the market today, with a lot of people competing for each position advertised. Here are some tips that will help you succeed in the initial application and the interview, to ensure that little earner on the side that stops you dig in their student overdrafts.
1. Do your resume stand out
Employers can sift through hundreds of resumes for a part-time job, and many applications come from college students; the only way you're going to get noticed is if your resume stands out from the rest. Consider layout, font selection and use of the empty space on the page to optimize the viewing experience for staff going through the curriculum. There are a lot of resume templates available online for free you can get inspiration from to create something that is unique to themselves. It is noteworthy that in some (but not all) countries, it is customary that the photos as part of your CV. Check local guidelines to make sure your below expectations.
Enough of part time jobs in catering, retail and tourist areas, and of course that means that you will work with the public. Highlight your customer service skills in any area of your key skills or your personal statement; It is a vital component needed to secure an interview with many companies.

This article is sponsored by the John Cabot University.
Your university years should be more than an opportunity for intellectual inquiry. The choice to study in Rome, Italy, will provide a unique opportunity to become part of the city which is not only a modern European city is based on the rich cultural traditions, but also the incredible living museum with thousands of years of history to explore.
1. Research the Roman rich cultural tradition
Rome is a city unlike any other. City 50 + 900 + museums and churches house the world-famous paintings, frescoes and sculptures. The cobblestoned streets and squares are magnificent architectural masterpiece in itself, and the city is home to no less than 12 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Rome is magnificent Coliseum stands as one of the finest examples of Roman architecture and engineering, and the Pantheon is considered one of the greatest achievements of the ancient builders. Rome has some of the world's greatest artistic masterpieces of extraordinary ever realized, including Michelangelo's ceiling in the Sistine Chapel and Raphael's frescoes in the Vatican Museums and Villa Farnesina.

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