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Saving Educational Exchanges with Ireland
The following is a guest post by Anne Glusker, director of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship program. —————————————————————————————- Mitchell scholars visit University College Cork in Ireland. The...
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A Phoenix Rising in the Desert: Michigan State University
A sign on Michigan State’s home campus. In 2007, Michigan State University announced to great fanfare a new branch campus in Dubai. It was the first U.S. institution to do so, and it began an elaborate...
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China’s Challenges
The following is a guest post by Lan Xue, dean of Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy and Management in China. —————————————————————————————— The Grand Auditorium at Tsinghua University in...
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Measuring Value: University-Based Research and National Needs
The European Science Open Forum, or ESOF, came to Dublin the other week. ESOF is Europe’s largest general science meeting and is held in a leading Europe city every two years. The Dublin event followed...
View ArticleIt Isn’t All Bad News
Many academic commentators on contemporary Western higher education want to harken back to what they see as a golden age of academe — and bemoan their present lot. No doubt there are things to complain...
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Measuring Value: Societal Benefits of Research
A Ph.D. student in the Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science at Virginia Tech. In recent years, there has been a noted policy shift towards measuring the value and benefit of...
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Why Is Iran Curtailing Female Education?
The following is a guest post by Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the author of My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story...
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The (Imperfect) Multinational University Analogy
What is a multinational university? As colleges and universities expand their physical presence into other locations, the term multinational university seems to be popping up in different venues as a...
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Celebrity Academe
It is not exactly an original observation to write that we live in a celebrity culture. All around us are the signs of the power of celebrity and there is a seemingly endless supply of academic papers...
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Will MOOC’s Take Down Branch Campuses? We Don’t Think So
In a recent blog on University World News, Rahul Choudaha argues that MOOC’s (massive open online courses) could lead to the decline of international branch campuses. There is some logic to this...
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On Being Able to Find Things
We are still in the midst of a change that is already so familiar that it does not feel momentous—even though, in all likelihood, it is. The availability of information at hand in an instant is now a...
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Immigration Woes
Around the world, immigration has become a prime political concern. I hardly need to point to the number of countries where immigration has become a major electoral issue, whether in the United States,...
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Trends in International Mobility of Students: a Wake-Up Call for the U.S.?
This month the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development released its annual statistical educational report, “Education at a Glance 2012: OECD Indicators.” It analyzes educational...
View ArticleTendencias en la movilidad internacional de estudiantes: ¿una llamada de...
Este mes la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE) publicó “Education at a Glance 2012: OECD Indicators”, un reporte anual que analiza el desempeño educativo en los 34 países...
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MOOC’s and the McDonaldization of Global Higher Education
We’ve been treated to a rash of stories about how new technological models for higher education raise questions about the viability of the traditional campus. After all, why invest in an elaborate...
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Why the U.K. Higher-Education System Shouldn’t Emulate the U.S.
A good friend of mine from the United States, observing the British higher-education scene, noted that, whereas the United States had taken 30 years to make its system more market-oriented, it was...
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Global University Rankings: the New Olympic Sport?
The main global rankings of universities have been published recently and with them, the predictable news headlines. However, over the years, the headlines have taken on a more geopolitical edge: An...
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The Brain Drain Within Africa
The following is a guest post by John D. Holm, the former director of the Office of International Education and Partnerships at the University of Botswana and director of international programs at...
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India Needs to Build World-Class Indian-Studies Departments
Following is a guest post by P. Pushkar, a former lecturer in international-development studies at McGill University who is now based in Gurgaon, India. A version of this post also appears in EDU, a...
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The Novelist-Academic-Poet on Campus
Universities are chock-full of novelists and poets. Indeed, the cultural life of nations would be mightily impoverished without their presence. There have of course been many studies of novelists and...
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