Do our associations of universities have the adequate capabilities, including infrastructures, to support the well-spring of ‘internationalization’ that is emerging in member universities in virtually all countries? On some levels yes, but on other levels perhaps not. One of the interesting aspects of the enhanced significance of internationalization in the higher education and research world [...]
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Associations of universities and the deep internationalization agenda: beyond the status quo?
Posted in Associations, branch campuses, tagged APLU, Association of Indian Universities, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, branch campuses, CIC, Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Group of Eight, Indian Institute of Information Technology, International Association of Universities, internationalization on November 27, 2010 | 6 Comments »
AUSTERITY FASHIONISTA or A CALL TO LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP: Reflections on Higher Education Budget Cuts in England and California
Posted in austerity, California, UK, UK Government's Spending Review, UK universities, USA, tagged austerity, British universities, Brown Report, Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance, Russell Group, University of California on November 17, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Editors’ note: today’s guest entry has been kindly developed by Dr. John Aubrey Douglass, Senior Research Fellow – Public Policy and Higher Education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of California – Berkeley, and currently visiting professor at the University of Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil). John Douglass is the co-editor [...]
The Watson Institute at Brown University presents Mark Blyth on Austerity
Posted in austerity, tagged austerity on November 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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