Research-Education Asynergy

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Identified problem - Research-Education Asynergy: students do not benefit from research results. Impact on university fees.

Solution: to ensure that EENI Research benefit to the student and regions where it operates, avoiding that the over costs of the research could be transmitted to the students via tuition fees.

The main problem detected at a global level by EENI Global Business School is an existing asynergy between the research and education. This asynergy is usually related to the business model of each university.

The growing “research pressure” to which many universities, accelerated by the Bologna process (in many countries, such as Spain, forced by the existing legislation), together with the recent global crisis, and the reduction of public funds, has led to many of these universities, created decades ago with the primary mission of “massing higher education (1)”

Moreover, they have done it in general really well, have collapsed their model by having to devote more resources to the research, in many cases without the necessary financial resources.

(1) Latin America is a good example of the higher education massification.

In 1950, there were scarcely 100 universities in the region with about 600,000 students
In 2000, there were 5,000 universities with about 8 million students.

In many cases, this pressure towards the research has been considered an adaptation of the University business model, mixing two business units (research/education) in the same model, in many cases incompatibles, and even with different value proposals.

This problem depends on the type of university (education + research or only education) and the country or region:

In Africa, the large majority of universities are “only education”
In Spain, 95.5% of university scientific production is done by the public universities
In the United States, is observed the emergence of new e-universities based only on education.

EENI African Portal

African Business (Master, Courses, Doctorates)

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Research strategies, Traditional University / EENI

Research, International Business and Foreign Trade

This asynergy between the research and education together with the tendency to encourage more the research than education of many universities, especially very latent in the European Higher Education Area, and in the regions of its influence, such as Francophone Africa, can be the cause of the following problems:

Professor Saturation: he has more and more non-teaching tasks
Teaching Quality Deficiency: a good researcher does not have to be a good professor
In many cases, the research results do not benefit to the students or educational quality
Transfer of the over costs of an inefficient research to the tuition fees
Low transparency in the research fields selection as well as their benefits and beneficiaries
University-Company Disconnection. In many cases, the fields of research are disconnected from the needs of the companies. According to the COTEC Report on R & D in Spain: 72.9% of respondents stated that “universities and public centres do not orient their R & D activities to the technological companies needs.”
Search for an University positioning based on international rankings instead of their strengths

Also, there are other problems at a global level not necessarily related to the Asynergy Education-Research:

Lack of standardization and verification of the quality of the university research
Low research specialised in international business (especially at a transnational level), and “religion, ethics and business” as well as in the target markets of EENI.
Reduced access to the research, especially in certain groups (such as women in Africa or the Arab countries)
The difficulty of SMEs and small organisations to gain access to the research and benefit from their results. In general, the main beneficiaries of the research are the largest companies and institutions.

Many of these problems have been exacerbated by the reduction of public funds for research.

Virtually only large universities, especially public, have sufficient financial resources to establish research programs.

Global Coordination and Research Unit

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