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What is surprising in the face of this brain drain is the power of the lobby of university professors in Europe to block reform.
Noah Kabbakeh, one of my vision-impaired colleagues in Freetown, Sierra Leone, needed four years to complete a two-year master’s program in the social sciences, not because he is unable to grasp the material quickly enough, but because he had to earn money to hire someone to read aloud textbooks and other class materials that any seeing graduate student could have obtained from the university library.
The Challenge of BalakotAlong with a group of faculty, staff and students from my university in Islamabad, I journeyed to Balakot, close to the center of the Kashmir earthquake.
From a special university fund, we pledged to rebuild the homes of a dozen families.
I traveled with a university team into the same mountains for similar relief work.
Sooner than that, artificial intelligence will transform higher learning, potentially making a world-class university education broadly affordable even in poor developing countries.
I went to university myself in 1962.
Others point to the restructuring of university social science departments.
Across university campuses, particularly in the US but also in Britain, students claim the right to deny others free speech or to rewrite history that offends them – a complete denial of what universities should be all about.
Censorship and assertions of sensitivity eviscerate scholarship and, with it, the very idea of a university where pluralism defines the meeting of minds.
Francis’s words highlight the fact that it is no longer enough to think of global development as a discrete set of concepts, such as per capita income growth or the number of university graduates.
For example, leftists insist that university education should be free of charge, instead of focusing on the quality of that education.
The relationship between Monti, a former university professor, and Italy’s politicians and political culture is a complex affair.
To succeed, Europe must equip itself with the necessary instruments: a large semi-public foundation to promote Europe and support political reform, a university to train future executives of nascent democracies, a police force, and an army of judges and magistrates to breathe life into the models that we want to emulate.
More recently, he has been President of Dartmouth College, a leading American university.
Only a few economic journalists and university professors are willing to object.
Public education barely existed for the “lower orders” 150 years ago, and university was a fantasy for them – as it could well be again, with tuition fees set to triple under Cameron.
Because the public sector can no longer absorb the swelling ranks of university graduates, the MENA region now has one of the world’s highest rates of youth unemployment.
Yet in the MENA region, the opposite has happened: university graduates are far more likely to be unemployed than are workers with only a basic education.
A Chinese Champion of Peace and FreedomPRAGUE – On Christmas Day last year, one of China’s best-known human rights activists, the writer and university professor Liu Xiaobo, was condemned to 11 years in prison.
Despite few ready avenues for product commercialization, the world’s companies, research institutes, and university and government laboratories together spend more than a trillion dollars on R&D annually.
But, before any public debate could occur, the AKP decided to amend only two articles of the constitution, in order to allow female university students to wear headscarves on campus.
For young people, a university education or vocational training can insure against long-term unemployment, at least when sufficient jobs are available.
The Lancet Commission draws attention to the Indian state of Kerala, where trained volunteers are at the center of community-based palliative care, bolstered by international collaboration with the WHO, university researchers, and non-governmental organizations.
When pressed about his failing memory, he impatiently responded, “Why am I expected to remember things in a country in which the president does not remember whether he graduated from university?”
Now, consider a few other findings from this year’s university rankings.
Germany, for example, is among the world’s 20 most populous and 20 wealthiest countries, and it is easily in the top ten in terms of nominal GDP; but its highest-ranked university is 64th in the world, and it has only three institutions in the top 100.
Many university leaders nowadays are under unfair pressure to maintain their institutions’ reputations for world-class research.
Nowhere is this insight more relevant than in Africa, where large-scale investment in education has enabled significant gains in literacy, school attendance, and university enrollment in recent years.
And the MasterCard Foundation is providing disadvantaged African students with financial assistance to attend secondary schools and university.
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