“Sage Journals” is offering free access to all on-line journals until 15 October. Sage is an independent academic publisher of books, journals, and electronic products in the humanities and social sciences and the scientific, technical, and medical fields. You may find in their database journals such as “ Active Learning in Higher Education”, “ Arts and Humanities in Higher Education” , “Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis”, Educational Researcher”, “Journal of Career Development”, “Journal of Hispanic Higher Education”, “Journal of Research in International Education”, “Review of Educational Research” or “Review of Research in Education”, among others.

Besides this limited access to SAGE journals, you can always access to the “Directory Open Access Journals”, where the access to more than 5.300 scientific journals is unlimited and free, under the concept of “open access journals” as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. Open access journals grant the right of users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles.

You can register to get free access to SAGE online journals here. . To visit the Directory of Open Access Journals, follow this link.

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26 members of university management and academic managers from developing countries are currently participating (from August 23rd to  September 3rd 2010) in the course “Training of Trainers in University Development” at the University of Kassel (Witzenhausen) . The International Centre for Research on Higher Education (INCHER- Kassel) is organizer of this course, which is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) under the DIES program (Dialog on Innovative Higher Education Strategies). Topics of the course are Training techniques and methods,   the supportive training environment, Training programs and Development of training plans for different applications.

This Training is the successor of the The University Management training programme UNISTAFF, wich in 2009 celebrated its fifteenth anniversary at the “Institute for socio-cultural Studies” at the University of Kassel. Since 1994 around 20 selected university staff members from developing countries participated yearly from May till Mid of July at the university management training programme UNISTAFF, held at the University of Kassel in Witzenhausen. UNISTAFF was also part of the DIES programme for the improvement of Higher Education Management in developing countries. The success of the former UNISTAFF programme is indisputable: Accordingly, in East Africa, Central America and South East Asia several active alumni networks have already emerged.

You can find more information here.

You can also visit INCHER website.

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13. Ethics of Indigenous Health Research. An examination of codes of ethics governing indigenous health research in Australia and New Zealand

by Amy Ewen

The subject of ethics in higher education research is a broad and complex topic and the codes that govern research are equally broad and complex. Codes of conduct and ethics can address various aspects of research depending on the body that develops the code. There are international and national codes of ethics for research, institutional codes, and codes for specific disciplines. Additionally, there are codes of ethics that govern specific types of research, for example, research that involves testing on human subjects.

Amy`s paper focuses on the guidelines developed by the nations of Australia and New Zealand for the research involving their indigenous populations, the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia, and the Maoris of New Zealand.

Amy Ewen is student in MAHE since 2009. Please find out more about Amy`s research interest in the Community page.

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Africa shares many challenges with other regions but also faces challenges that are particularly daunting in the region. UNESCO data show that participation in higher education in Africa is less than 10%, the lowest (as percentage of the traditional age cohort) in the world. With the recognition that highly skilled human resources are critical to economic development, governments in nearly all African countries have implemented policies to expand access—building new universities while simultaneously increasing enrollment at existing universities. These decisions are political as well as economic but with little consideration to the practical implications of this vertiginous growth. This leaves university leaderships with the obligation to confront too many problems with too few resources.
Liz Reisberg, research associate and adjunct faculty at the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, summarizes some problems in the institutional management in African universities here, in her blog . You can also visit “Inside higher Education” blogs.

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The agreed goals in the ‘Europe 2020′ strategy – reducing the share of early school leavers to 10% and making sure that at least 40% of 30-34 year olds have a degree or diploma by 2020 – are EU-wide averages. National targets are to be agreed with the European Commission, meaning that lower results in certain member states can be balanced out by above-average ones in others. As for the higher education goal, the Poles have set themselves an ambitious target of 45%, while the Czechs and the Slovaks are aiming for lower – and for them seemingly more challenging – targets of 32% and 30% respectively.

The article about higher education (and education) in Eastern Europe here.

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Chilean woman are majority in Higher Education, and increasing.

20 August 2010

2009 was the first time that a majority – 51% - of all higher education students in Chile were women, the Education Ministry reported last week. The economists credited two factors for the phenomenon: that women working outside of the home are becoming more accepted by society, and that the gap of salaries between men and women is becoming smaller, although it still exists; this is an incentive for women to get a degree to find higher paying jobs.
The official figures shows that in the United States, of the more than 3 million college degrees for the Class of 2009, women earned close to 60% of those degrees (1,849,200), or almost 149 degrees for every 100 degrees earned by men. According to a study of Munich University , the woman participation rate in Germany is below 50%.

The article about Chilean woman in higher education here.

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Academic Bankruptsy

19 August 2010

In the Unites States, according to the national leaders and the general public, higher education has never been more important to society or more widely desired. But the collapse of the public education system, in part because of the economic crisis, and the skyrocketing cost of private education threaten to make college unaffordable for millions of young people. The Columbia University Proffesor, Mark Taylor, thinks that If recent trends continue, four years at a top-tier school will cost $330,000 in 2020, $525,000 in 2028 and $785,000 in 2035.

You can know more  here.

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Academic ranking of world universities 2010.

17 August 2010

As every year, The Shanghai`s Jiaotong University publishes the “Academic Ranking of World Universities”. Despite the long list of critics and arguments against this ranking methodology, use and objectives, the relevance of the ranking seems to be growing every year, as a simple google´s news search shows.

As every year, this year, not many surprises: 8 US universities in the top 10, and 54 US universities in the top 100.
You can read a short summary of the ranking here.
To know about Spanish and Latin-American universities in the ranking you can check this link.
Before reading the ranking, you can check some of the scholar’s critics to this ranking

And finally, to have a look in the list, check the Jiaotong “Academic Ranking of World Universities” 2010:

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European Union expands cooperation with non EU countries.

16 August 2010

The European Commission has decided to allocate €30.4 million to support higher education projects in the European Neighbourhood countries and Russia. This will enable enhanced networking and joint projects and partnerships between higher education institutions in EU and ENPI countries.

You can know more   here , and get more information about The European Commision for Education and Trainnning in the website:

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Obama´s goal for higher education: to produce 8 million more graduates.

12 August 2010

President Barack Obama urged Monday to crack the books and boost post-secondary graduation rates, arguing that higher education achievement was key to US economic health.

“America has to have the highest share of graduates compared to other nations.” Obama said on a visit to the University of Texas. The President delivered a speech with an ambitious goal of producing 8-million more college graduates by 2020.

“In a single generation, we’ve fallen from first place to 12th place in college graduation rates for young adults. That’s unacceptable, but it’s not irreversible. We can retake the lead,” Obama stressed.

“What I’ve tried to explain to people, education is an economic issue, education is the economic issue of our time,” Obama insisted, arguing: “The countries that outeducate us today will outcompete us tomorrow.”

The US president said first-rate education must be a top priority for the US economy to flourish.

“The single most important step we must take is make sure that every one of our young people (…) has the best education that the world has to offer. That’s the number one thing we can do,” Obama said.

you can hear part of the speech  here or get more information on

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The Great Brain Race

9 August 2010

For decades, research universities in the United States have been universally acknowledged as the world’s leaders in science and engineering, unsurpassed since World War II in the sheer volume and excellence of the scholarship and innovation that they generate. But there are growing signs that the rest of the world is gaining ground fast – building new universities, improving existing ones, competing hard for the best students, and recruiting US-trained PhDs to return home to work in university and industry labs. Is the international scholarly pecking order about to be overturned?

Read the full article by Ben Wildavsky on

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Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web

7 August 2010

The idea of young adults having to go to universities in order to get an education is going to go away relatively soon. Well, provided they’re self-motivated learners.

Read the full article on

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Grand Educational Vision for Kazakhstan

6 August 2010

Kazakhstan has opened a new university in the capital, Astana, with ambitious aims of eventually offering a world-class education to 20,000 students per year and of ending the practice of sending the country’s best and brightest abroad to study.

The school is working closely to develop the programs of study with elite foreign universities, particularly American ones, including Carnegie Mellon, Duke and Harvard, aiming to derive the best from each university and combine them into a uniquely Kazakh mix.

The university “will become a national brand of Kazakhstan that will combine the advantages of the national education system and the best of international research and education practice,” said Nazarbayev at the school’s opening ceremony at the end of June.

Read the full article on EURASIANET.org web site.

Learn more about the Nazarbayev University on its web site.

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Should universities teach students how to find a job?

4 August 2010

Sarfraz Manzoor has been following the fortunes of six young people who graduated last year. How well do they feel that university prepared them for today’s economic realities?

The class of 2009 left university knowing they were facing the toughest battle for jobs in a generation. The outlook for the 300,000 young men and women who were leaving university appeared decidedly bleak, with warnings that the number of new graduates out of work would be double that of the previous year, that students who had graduated from English universities would be the most indebted in history, and that up to 40,000 graduates would be still looking for work six months after leaving university.

Read the full article on The Guardian web site.

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New ACA publication: International Student Support in European Higher Education (Maria Kelo & Tim Rogers)

31 July 2010

International Student Support in European Higher Education addresses highly pertinent issues, providing in the process concrete suggestions for practitioners and policymakers who are keen to ensure that the world’s internationally-mobile students view Europe as a destination for both academic excellence and care for the ‘whole student’.

Detailed information on Lemmens web site.

This book is available in the INCHER library.

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Times Higher Education (THE) changes the ranking methodology for 2010.

29 July 2010

THE confirmed this week that it plans to use 13 separate performance indicators to compile the league tables for 2010 and beyond - an increase from just six measures used under the methodology employed between 2004 and 2009.

Detailed information in THE web site.

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Check out our new page

–> HE News on e-MaHE

The news page on higher education is the initiative of Eduardo Rivera, student in MAHE since 2009. With this tool, Eduardo likes to share news from around the world with regard to higher education, as well as other related information, and contibutes thereby to the mission of e-MaHE. The page will be updated continuously. Summaries will be published on the home page weekly, although we encourage you to check out the HE news page regularly.

The e-MaHE team encourages and supports such initiatives. We are glad to welcome you, Eduardo, in your team!

If you have an idea related to higher education or MAHE, and would like to get involved with e-MaHE, contact us (contact@e-mahe.com).

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12. Affirmative Action in United States Higher Education:
Moving Forward or Falling Back?

by Amanda W. Schimunek

Amanda Schimunek is the first to publish an article about higher education in the United States of America on e-MaHE.com. In her paper for the Gender and Change Management module, Amanda identifies the effects of affirmative action on women in United States higher education.

The paper presents a review and discussion of affirmative action in the United States. It begins with a brief history by introducing relevant legislation and moves into a discussion of the changing dynamics of affirmative action from the initial enthusiasm (and the initial resistance) of the 1960’s and 1970’s to the “backlash” of the 1990’s to the rather ambiguous undercurrents of the first few years of the new millennium. The main focus of the discussion is the consequences of affirmative action and an assessment of the positive and negative implications of those consequences.

Amanda is a student in MAHE since 2008, and is espacially interested in teaching and teacher education, international student support/study abroad, linguistics, language and language acquisition. Please find more information about Amanda on the Community page.

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11. Analysis of the Development of the International Organisation:
Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER)

by Liana Karagasheva

Liana Karagasheva is the second author publishing a paper on the analysis of an international organization, after Claudia Müller, who wrote about the European Association of Institutional Research.

Liana’s paper presents the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER), “that rallied researchers from different countries to build a firm bridge for collaboration in the field of higher education research”. The main aim of her paper is “to attract readers’ attention to this organization, especially young researchers and students from developing countries, who with the help of CHER can develop their perspectives regarding research on higher education. Also, these people could gain new ideas for developing their higher education systems not only on the national level, but also engage in international cooperation in this field by participating in various activities organized by CHER like annual conferences and additional training courses for researches.”

Liana is a student in MAHE since 2009, and is espacially interested in teaching and teacher education, international relations as well as language and language acquisition. Please find more information about Liana on the Community page.

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10. Structural Developments of Higher Education in Cyprus

by Anastasia Kanari

The author describes in her paper recent developments in higher education in Cyprus: “the launch of the University of Cyprus in September 1992, the establishment and operation of another two public universities - the Open University of Cyprus in September 2006 and the Cyprus University of Technology in September 2007.”

However, in the author’s opinion, “the present Cyprus higher education system has some deficiencies which need to be rectified in order for it to become a more comprehensive and innovative oriented higher education system. For example, the Cyprus higher education system should offer more opportunities to Cypriot students to study in their home country in fields such as medicine, a faculty that does not yet exist in Cypriot universities. It could also attract more European and international students by promoting the permanent and temporary mobility of foreign students and offering study programmes taught in international languages.” (Kanari, 2010, pp. 3-4)

Anastasia is a student in MAHE since 2009, and is espacially interested in developments in educational research, structures of international higher education systems, and teaching. Please find a photo of her on the Author’s page.

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