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In this article the results of the surveys of the experiences of the interviewees during the audit visits to three institutions in 2005 are reported. But the audit visits should not be seen in isolation from the broader, multi-year, multi-phased audit process as a whole. "Audit" should therefore not be equated with "audit visit".
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/ 13 February 2008
Twenty audits have been conducted by the higher education quality committee so far and have required an enormous amount of work from higher education institutions. They have had to prepare a comprehensive self-evaluation against the HEQC audit criteria, provide extensive supporting documentation, organise the logistics of hosting an audit panel.
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/ 13 February 2008
The European University Association (EUA) has launched a Europe-wide platform to bolster doctoral education. The EUA Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE) will aim to develop and advance doctoral education and research training in Europe. The creation of the council follows a recent report by the association on doctoral education.
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/ 13 February 2008
The main development to watch in 2008 will be the implementation of the department of trade and industry’s codes of good practice. So says Rhodes University’s Reg Rumney. He says the existing sectoral charters need to be aligned with these codes and already teething problems are springing up, says Lloyd Gedye.
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/ 13 February 2008
The best way to introduce our university is to say we are luckier than most in Turkey because we have an astronomic observatory, native Japanese teachers in the department of foreign languages and so many ancient ruins nearby that the archaeology department will be digging artefacts for centuries to come.
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/ 13 February 2008
The institution, in Ruimsig, west of Johannesburg, was set up by Australia’s Monash University in 2000/01 as one of two satellite campuses in other countries. The mother institution invested about R450-million in property, equipment and running costs in the South African operation.
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/ 13 February 2008
Nur knew that as a Bedouin — an Arab nomad — living in poverty in Israel’s Negev desert, the likelihood of going to university was remote. As a woman, it was almost unheard of. Tribal norms and finances ruled it out. So the 18-year-old applied in secret to Ben-Gurion University — and was accepted. Nur (a pseudonym) knew that she needed her father’s permission to go and that he had denied it.
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/ 13 February 2008
Worried that a low birth rate could threaten the country’s very survival, Singapore’s government is playing Cupid, using Valentine’s Day to promote romance and marriage. In a city where many singles say they are too busy making money to make love, the government plans to step up its official "Romancing Singapore" campaign on Thursday.
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/ 13 February 2008
In the past four years, several universities and private providers of higher education have been quality audited by the council on higher education’s subcommittee, the higher education quality committee (HEQC). The audits follow a worldwide trend and enable the HEQC to have a national picture of quality arrangements in higher education and to monitor system- and sector-level quality improvement.
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/ 13 February 2008
Polokwane has come but, apparently, not gone, which might not be such a bad thing. And muted reverberations predict more drastic consequences. In the build-up to the conference, predictions and expectations were the order of the day, writes Nkosinathi Chonco.