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New loan program makes education more accessible in Armenia

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Armenia/ August 26, 2017/Source: http://www.panarmenian.net

Byblos Bank Armenia CJSC and American University of Armenia have teamed up for a new student loan project which makes higher education more accessible and affordable. AUA graduate students who need financial support can get student loans to cover their tuition fee.

The project provides up to 80% funding of the education fee with an annual interest rate of 5% interest rate and a grace period. During the period of studies at AUA and the following six months only the interest will be paid off. The principal and the interest will be paid during the next thirty months.

Hayk Stepanyan, Chief Executive Officer of Byblos Bank Armenia noted: “Education has always been in the focus of attention of Byblos Bank. This loan project with American University of Armenia will help more students have access to quality higher education programs, reveal their potential and succeed in the job market. Moreover, starting from 2017 academic year the Bank has granted scholarships to AUA students. We hope that our cooperation with AUA will contribute to the development and well-being of our society.”

The loan with preferential terms will be provided in Armenian dram to students with good credit history and two guarantors.

Armen Der Kiureghian, President of the American University of Armenia noted, “The amount of money spent for quality education can become the most profitable investment ever made. Due to the education at AUA there is growing demand for our graduates in the labor market. There is also growing trust in their ability to fulfill their loan commitments. With this partnership our university makes a step forward towards making education accessible for students who most need financial support. We are confident that many students will benefit from this unique opportunity.”

Students can apply for the project by 4 September of the current year, by writing an e-mail to to the American University of Armenia at financialaid@aua.am.

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Pakistan: Education camp installed in Badin

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Badin / 23 de agosto de 2017 / Fuente: https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk

The Laar education emergency camp has been installed in Badin for the provision of quality education to people.

The aim of installing these camps, besides providing quality education, is to lay stress on the government and concerned authorities to maximise their efforts in providing quality education to the students.

On the occasion, Pir Abid Shah, Badin Press Club President Tanveer Ahmed Arain, Shahnawaz Siyal, Muhammad Ali Khatak, Bahadur Talpur, Peer Abid Shah Rashidi, Ramzan Rind, Muhammad Khan Arisar and others were also present.

A large number of youths, hailing from different towns and cities of the district, gathered at the erected camps led by Mukesh Meghwar, Advocate Ram Kolhi, Kawish Latif Jokhio, Mohan Meghwar, Ghulam Rasool Soomro, Karim Soomro and others.

Organisers of the camp intend to draw the attention of the elected representatives, local politicians, education minister and officials towards deteriorating condition of the education in the district, as according to them, most of the schools of rural areas are deprived of the basic facilities.

The management of the camp has also demanded from the government to reopen all the closed schools in the district.

People expressed their grave concerns over deteriorating standard of education in Badin.

While talking to local media, people were of the view that 56 per cent children of the district are not yet registered in the schools and 565 primary and middle schools are closed or non-functional in the district.

Mostly girls, particularly from rural areas, hardly acquire an education beyond primary level and boys also leave schools after secondary education due to the system, they added and emphasised that change in the education system is a must.

Demanding for provision of required facilities at primary, middle, secondary and higher level, they said that negligence in education system is unacceptable and termed this installation of the camp in the city as a small step for raising the standard of education and for showing their willingness to collaborate with the government when it comes to education.

Fuente noticia: https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/08/21/education-camp-installed-in-badin/

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Over 31% of Cyprus higher education students are from EU

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Cyprus/August 15, 2017/Source: http://in-cyprus.com

The Education Ministry’s Department of Higher Education on Friday released a ‘map’ of the sector for the 2016-2017 academic years, showing that the vast majority of students attending local universities and colleges are either Cypriot or from another EU country.

According to the Department, of the 44,446 students studying at higher education institutions in Cyprus including state and private universities and colleges, 23,353 are Cypriot citizens (52.54%), 13,898 are citizens of other European countries (31.27%), and just 7,195 (16.19%) are students from third countries

It should also be noted that of the total, 12,681 students are studying via Distance Learning and so are likely not to live in Cyprus.

The figures reveal a 13.7% (4,165 students) increase in the number of students attending universities compared to the 2015-2016 academic year.

The increase when it came to colleges was 22.5%, corresponding to 1,634 students.

After the analysis of the data, it emerged that of the 44,446 total 35,551 students attend university and 8,895 other higher education institutions such as colleges.

The figures showed that 3,848 people were attending study programmes of between one and three years duration, 19,562 people attend regular university undergraduate programmes usually of a four-year duration and 3,890 people attend college undergraduate programmes.

The number of people attending postgraduate programmes at universities comes to 14,898 people, dropping to 1,097 people when it comes to colleges.

PhD programs at Universities attracted 1,091 people during the 2016-2017 academic year, while the corresponding programmes at colleges were attended by 60 people.

Regarding undergraduate subject preferences, Business Administration is the most popular, followed by Law, Accounting and Medicine.
As far as graduate students are concerned, most choose to specialise in Education, followed by Business Administration, and Health Sciences.

At Doctoral level, preferences are Education Sciences, followed by the Psychology and Business Administration.
Those pursuing certificates, diplomas and higher diplomas, meanwhile, seem to prefer the Security Services sector and Hotel Management/ Tourism as well as the Gastronomic Arts.

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Over 31% of Cyprus higher education students are from EU

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South African students not prepared for tertiary education, says study

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South African/August 8, 2017/By: Suthentira Govender / Source: https://www.businesslive.co.za

Not being happy with your study choice and failing schools standards are some of the reasons South African students have given for feeling unprepared for tertiary education, according to a new study

This revelation is contained in the latest PPS Student Confidence Index survey conducted among nearly 2‚500 students in fourth year and above‚ pursuing qualifications in engineering‚ medicine‚ law or accounting.

According to the survey‚ less than half those surveyed felt prepared for the transition from school to higher education institutions. This represents an 8% decline from 2016‚ and marks the first time in three years — since the survey was started — that the percentage has dropped below 50%.

Motshabi Nomvete‚ PPS spokeperson, believes the implications «of this lack of preparedness is no doubt contributing to the fact that 47.9% of university students do not complete their degrees as determined in the latest [2015] report by the Department of Higher Education».

She said there needs to be more engagement by the corporate sector and professional bodies with government on school curriculums to ensure the divide between secondary and tertiary education levels is reduced.

Prof Labby Ramrathan‚ based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s school of education‚ said the school-to-university transition «is a complex phenomenon that has many facets». «The emotional facet of being prepared or not for this transition cannot be used as any substantive argument for the high rate of dropout from universities.»

Ramrathan said the drop in percentage of students being ready for tertiary education «is related to the confidence in being able to access their study programme of choice and this is, I believe‚ what may have resulted in their lower levels of confidence in transition from school to university».

«There are a number of studies that have pointed to‚ among other [things]‚ being admitted to programmes that were not the student’s first choice as a reason for high levels of student dropout. Students have the potential to succeed‚ but there are several factors, including institutional‚ personal and academic‚ that contribute to the high rate of student dropout‚» added Ramrathan.

Another education expert‚ Prof Wayne Hugo‚ said: «At the heart of it lies the following problem: school standards are struggling to keep up to scratch for university level study.»

«Universities accept students who they know are not university-ready because they know the school system is struggling and so they put in all sorts of foundation and assistance programmes that help the student,» he said. «By the time it comes to actually graduate‚ the openness and support has come to an end and the student must display full university standards. By then‚ some of our students have caught up … but those who have not experience a rude awakening.»

Hugo added that the Fees Must Fall campaign had «a terrible physical and psychological toll on students and lecturers alike‚ resulting in an increased divide and less energy and commitment».

Source:

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/education/2017-08-07-sa-students-not-prepared-for-tertiary-education-says-study/

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Is Online Education a Jobs Engine?

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By Joshua Kim

I like nothing better than getting things wrong. When we are wrong, we learn something.

So I interested to read a NYTimes piece on 7/10/17 on e-commerce, the tech sector, and job creation.

For a while now I’ve thought that the growth of online shopping is killing retail jobs, and that this trend would inevitably result in overall job losses as less the role of sales people and cashiers is eliminated.

But maybe I’ve been wrong.

And if online shopping is really a jobs engine, couldn’t online learning also be a job creator for educators?

The Times article summarizes research from Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute, that makes the case that online shopping has created more jobs than it has displaced in bricks-and-mortar retail stores.

According to Mandel, in the decade between 2007 to 2017 the e-commerce industry created 397,000 jobs in the United States. This compares to loss of 76,000 jobs in the traditional retail industry. Even better, the jobs created in e-commerce fulfillment – such as warehouse jobs – pay on average 30 percent more than retail positions.

The article is quick to point out that Mandel’s findings are controversial. It is difficult to assign job creation directly to the growth of e-commerce, as it is not always clear what tasks employees of Amazon or Google or other tech companies are assigned. Nor is it certain that warehouse job creation will not plateau, as productivity around online shipping grows as the sector grows, and as warehouses themselves become more automated.

Might online education be operating in some similar ways as online shopping?

How many good jobs in education have been created by the growth in online learning?

From 2002 to 2014 the number of students who took at least one online course rose from 1.6 million to 5.8 million. The bulk of all online learning programs are concentrated in non-profit institutions, accounting for over 2 million of the total 2.8 million enrolled in online only programs. From 2012 to 2014 the percentage of 4-year schools offering online degree programs rose from 46 percent to 59 percent.

Has anyone counted the number of jobs, and what types of jobs, that the growth in online education has created?

Conventional wisdom would hold that online learning has the potential to displace full-time residential faculty with contingent online instructors. But is this really true?

Many schools that I know of draw their online faculty from the same pool of full-time and tenure-track/tenured faculty as their residential programs – as well as from the same pool of part-time and adjunct faculty teaching in-person.  If anything, I’ve seen online learning offer more opportunities for teaching gigs for all higher ed teachers.

Has anyone been able to count the number of instructional design and other non-faculty educator jobs that have been created by the growth of online education?  Quality online programs require a team approach to course development.  Faculty (subject matter experts) are paired with experts in learning design and technology.

The indirect impact of online learning on higher education employment may also be under-appreciated.  I’d like to see some national level data on the revenue impact of online programs on the budgets of non-profit institutions.  How much cross-subsidization of residential programs is occurring from online units?  How many higher ed jobs have been saved or created by profitable online units?

Where would one start in unpacking the higher education employment impact of online education?

Can we interest Michael Mandel and the Progressive Policy Institute in taking up this question?

Is this a question that WCET, OLC, EDUCAUSE, or the National Council for Online Education could answer?

When have you been wrong lately?

Source:

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/online-education-jobs-engine

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Jerusalem: Accessible higher education begins with a question mark

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Jerusalem/ July 25, 17/By: Tova Hartman/Source: http://www.jpost.com

Hard fought, this academic certification provided these exceptional women with life-altering opportunities.

On July 4, a day that has become almost universally synonymous with independence, I had the great honor of conferring bachelor’s degrees in education upon a sea of eager undergraduates at Ono Academic College. Among them were 100 female Arab students who had taken specialized courses that would allow them to develop inclusive educational programming and assist youth at risk across the country.

Hard fought, this academic certification provided these exceptional women with life-altering opportunities and empowered them to write new chapters in their lives and improve the lives of countless others.

Like many of our students, these Arab women had faced a long road before finding their way into our classrooms, a gauntlet of cultural, social and political challenges. Lucky for us (all of us), they never gave up hope and found the strength to overcome every obstacle. As they graced the stage, triumphantly accepting their diplomas one by one, many with children in tow, I reveled in the knowledge that our society and educational system was now so much richer.

One hundred new, dynamic educators. One hundred erudite and productive members of society. A stunning victory for diversity in the classroom and beyond.

Source:

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Accessible-higher-education-begins-with-a-question-mark-500637

 

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Vietnam and China work on education

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Vietnan – China/ July 25, 17/ Source: http://www.thestar.com.my

Minister of Education and Sports of Laos Sengdeuane Lachanthaboun and senior education officials from China met to discuss vocational education cooperation recently in Vientiane.

The meeting reported that some 40 students received scholarships from a university in China and many are studying in vocational programmes across various fields in China.

Laos students have studied in over 37 countries for their bachelors, masters and PhD degrees in subjects including administration, foreign affairs, law, technology, and agriculture and fisheries.

Laos and China not only collaborate in education but are alsoco­­operating in trade and investment, with China consistently among the top three investors in Laos. — Vientiane Times/Asia News Network

Source:

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2017/07/25/vietnam-and-china-work-on-education/

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