Education News in Brief (2016/10/09)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Conatus News/Uncommon Ground Media Inc.
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016/10/09
Russia’s 5-100 plan under scrutiny
According to The PIE News, Russia’s major internationalization project for higher education, Project 5-100, is being called into concern by the Minister of Education and Science, Olga Vasilyeva.
Vasilyeva said, “The budget should be spent very carefully,” which was a warning from the new minister. The investments from Project 5-100 will be huge. This makes the Vasilyeva focused on the expenditure of the budget, which she argues should be in a careful manner.
“We are currently suspending any further consolidations of Russian universities for an indefinite period of time…The programme involves huge investments in the development of certain local universities; however, there is a big question, whether these funds will be repaid,” Vasilyeva said.
Discussions opening over the importance of international rankings for schools
According to The Times Higher Education, some universities rise in the international school ranking because of increases in the pay of professors and instructors at their institution, which has raised questions about international rankings.
Duncan Ross, Data and Analytics Director at Times Higher Education, said, “One of the most frustrating questions I get asked by people at universities is: ‘How can I go up in the rankings?’ which is one of the least interesting questions about the data we have.”
Ross would prefer questions about being better at things considered important by the institution and its membership. Vice-Provost for Planning and Assessment at Pennsylvania State University, Lance Kennedy-Phillips, considers rankings context-providing and not the driving force behind university operations.
Chinese value and pay high prices for international educations
According to The Christian Science Monitor, Sustainable Development Goals (MDGs), which followed the Millennium Development Goals, of the United Nations have 14-year ambitions to train “69 million new teachers” for the needed slots in education.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released statistics stating the need for those 69 million teachers for “263 million children worldwide who do not attend primary or secondary school.”
Silvia Montoya, UNESCO Institute for Statistics Director, said, “Entire education systems are gearing up for the big push to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 by 2030…[but] education systems are only as good as their teachers.”
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