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This week’s front page of the University World News website features one ecstatic article on the development of MOOCs in Asia (http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20130417153545600 ) and one on Europe finally entering into the enlightened world of MOOCs (http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20130419152105627 ). By looking at the Google Trends graph on the acronym, MOOCs are certainly a much discussed topic. What’s […]
January 29, 2013
The short term aim of higher education is to provide graduates who will be ready to be employed by companies and organisations. As such, the final customer has never been the student but the companies. And outside of rare exceptions, companies are not directly paying for that. In light of the mounting debts for graduates […]
January 18, 2013
The recent release of the TIMSS ranking (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Survey) generated as usual lots of articles on the “good” and “bad” education systems and how it can jeopardise the economy of a country. But is that really the case? I did a little exercise, using the PISA 2009 results (PISA is […]
August 16, 2012
A difficult economic situation pushes more and more graduates to complete their education in a foreign country least affected by the crisis. They hope to find work more easily after graduation. In Europe, young people are bearing the brunt of the economic crisis. Unemployment affects one in three young active in Greece, one in two […]
June 14, 2012
In front of the multiplicity of rankings, and all the passionate debates on their values, I would like to share briefly the example of the SETARA rating system implemented in Malaysia by the Ministry of Higher Education since 2009. It is a very original system, which could be usefully replicated at a higher level by […]
June 14, 2012
Recently, several announcements have been made of foreign universities opening branch campuses in Malaysia (Herriot-Watt and the University of Reading from UK) or expanding their operations (Manipal from India opening a 20000 students campus). More importantly, the Ministry of Higher Education has indicated that it currently has 25 other applications from foreign universities to open […]
January 20, 2012
Bordeaux Ecole de Management (BEM) and Euromed Marseille have recently announced their merger (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/32573bbc-429a-11e1-97b1-00144feab49a.html#axzz1jsc1WYVg). This will create a new giant in the French and European landscape with a 90 million Euros budget, more than 9000 students, 160 academics and 35000 alumni. It is interesting to note that Euromed has been looking for a partner for […]
April 24, 2013
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