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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