International Research Funding in African Higher Education`: Risks and Benefits

Despite contradictory evidence from university rankings such as QS and The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the impact of external research funding on African higher education remains an open question. While external funding provides critical financial resources, it usually has conditionalities that may undermine the autonomy and sustainability of African higher education. This article dissects its benefits and risks, with case studies from Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa, and proposes balanced funding strategies

Christian Rutishauser, Barbara Schmitz, and Jan Woppowa, Eds. Jüdisch-christlicher Dialog: Ein Studienhandbuch für Lehre und Praxis

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Transforming Higher Education in Mongolia

This paper provides an overview of the Mongolian higher education sector and presents the challenges that it faces. It then delves into some of the opportunities that would allow the sector to overcome the challenges that it faces, provided that they are properly managed

Katherine Aron-Beller. Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators: The History of an Allegation, 400-1700

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The Diploma Divide

This paper uses political behavior to support the argument that affirmative action is still necessary in today’s culture to create more tolerant campuses, and in turn, a more tolerant American population. The sunset provision in previous Supreme Court cases, such as Bakke and Grutter, demonstrates that affirmative action should not be a forever policy, but is necessary in order to provide opportunities to students of all backgrounds and ultimately strive towards the American ideal of equality. Studies have shown that the more educated a person is, the more likely they are to be more tolerant of people outside of their own in-group due to social learning theory, contact theory, and increased levels of personal efficacy. Data also shows that this tolerance is enduring over a lifetime. The so-called “diploma divide” can also be explained by the aftermath of attending a university