Blogs
Here Nuffic staff and external experts provide background information on current events and analyse ongoing developments in international higher education.
Scholarships forever?
The purpose of scholarship programmes
The Learning Agreement: still essential? How to set up and measure quality abroad
Both the quality of Erasmus mobility and the recognition of credits remain returning topics when it comes to international credit mobility. There are several tools and initiatives that try to look into these matters. Some are older, like the Learning Agreement, some are younger, like recent mapping, benchmarking and quality assurance initiatives.
Emerging higher education hubs
Upcoming providers of international higher education in the developing world.
Quantity or quality in internationalization of higher education?
In an effort to secure public attention, and possibly funding, attention of Higher Education management seems to focus on quantitative aspects. Although accreditation still plays an important role in informing the public about the quality of higher education, rankings have gained a lot of attention over the past few years.
Education development in Africa: the first 50 years of independence
Forty-six of Africa’s 52 countries achieved independence from colonial rule between 1960 and 1966. It is 2010, exactly 50 years after the first ululations (uhmmm ... declarations) of independence were proclaimed. Time to celebrate!
Fond friends or hungry dragon? China’s increased higher education collaboration with Africa
At the end of August, government leaders from China and South Africa announced that they would advance bilateral cooperation in a range of areas, including higher education and scientific research.