Taking note of export earnings

Editor’s note: this is reprinted from the UK Higher Education International Unit‘s most recent newsletter (International Focus issue 48.25.11.09). ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ahh – the end of the workday and time for a glass of wine: a fine New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, perhaps? The first time we heard that education generates more ‘export earnings’ for the New [...]

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Developments in world institutional rankings; SCImago joins the club

Editor’s note: this guest entry was kindly written by Gavin Moodie, principal policy adviser of Griffith University in Australia.  Gavin (pictured to the right) is most interested in the relations between vocational and higher education. His book From Vocational to Higher Education: An International Perspective was published by McGraw-Hill last year. Gavin’s entry sheds light [...]

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Learning from London?

I sometimes wonder if it is worth drawing lines and generating comparisons between two seemingly disparate processes that are at work at different scales, and in different countries, but why not – I’m jetlagged with some late night time to spare. First, the US Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) released a new report (Findings from [...]

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From rhetoric to reality: unpacking the numbers and practices of global higher ed

Numbers, partnerships, linkages, and collaboration: some key terms that seem to be bubbling up all over the place right now. On the numbers front, the ever active Cliff Adelman released, via the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), a new report titled The Spaces Between Numbers: Getting International Data on Higher Education Straight (November 2009). [...]

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