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| Borderless Report September 2011 | |||||||||||||||
| Issue 6, 21 September 2011 | |||||||||||||||
| Brazil leads the charge from Latin America | |||||||||||||||
As is by now fairly well-known in our line of work, in July the new Government of Brazil announced a rather eye-catching 75,000 scholarships, over the next three years, for their own students to study abroad. They are intended mainly for courses and research in STEM subjects. This is part of the government’s ‘Science Without Borders’ (SWB) initiative (subtitled ‘A special programme for international mobility in science, technology and innovation’) and represents an investment of some R$3.2bn ($1.8bn). Numbers like that attract the attention of governments (not to mention Rectors, Presidents and Vice-Chancellors) everywhere. Brazil is counting on an additional 25,000 places from the business sector. Doing the right thing: Universities and philanthropy in a time of crisisPublic funding chopped, global competition on the rise, intruding on what used to be uncontested home turf. This is a hard time for most higher education institutions in Europe and North America, the two regions most affected bPublic funding chopped, global competition on the rise, intruding on what used to be uncontested home turf. This is a hard time for most higher education institutions in Europe and North America, the two regions most affected by the global economic crisis. And when support from the state is no longer taken for granted, the kindness of strangers offers an alternative revenue stream. Interview on cloud computing with Dr Malcolm Read, Executive Secretary of JISC''Cloud computing has a number of big advantages. You don’t have to worry about buying or maintaining computers or applications. You use resources much more efficiently, particularly in terms of carbon footprint. Having bigger machines professionally managed in a central bureau is more cost-effective and more efficient. It is cheaper to pool your demand, which is a big advantage for large-scale projects with different teams. Otherwise institutions would have to spend millions of pounds for IT facilities. That cost-saving is particularly noticeable. '' Rethinking internationalisation: The IAU creates an international ad-hoc expert groupResearch on the internationalisation of higher education by the International Association of Universities (IAU), disseminated in three reports based on global surveys undertaken since 2003, monitors and tracks the evolution of this process over the past decade. As in higher education generally, tremendous changes have occurred both in terms of the intensity with which internationalisation is pursued by nations and institutions and in the breadth of activities taking place. Canada: Partner of choice in international educationCanada has become a key destination for international students. In 2010, international students made up 10 percent of the campus population. Although this number has been steadily rising over the past 15 years, there remains a potential for even greater international student enrolment in the coming years. According to UNESCO data, the global number of international postsecondary education students increased by 77% between 2000 and 2009, from 2.1 to 3.7 million. This number is expected to continue to rise over the long term and members of the G20 will likely continue to attract the vast majority of international students. In Canada, the number of international university students has more than doubled over the same period. Conference Announcement: Adapting to disruptive times - Emerging models for HE provisionHE news from around the worldNew books and forthcoming events |
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