As someone who loves taking the train, misses the TGV, Eurostar, and Thalys systems (having lived in France last year), and is perplexed why the world’s wealthiest country does not get serious about fast speed rail, this news story caught my eye.
I’ll paste in most of the accompanying text below, from [...]
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The UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI): reflections on ‘the complexities of global partnerships in higher education
Posted in China, Cross-Border Higher Education, India, Innovation, UK, University strategies, knowledge economy, tagged China, communication, Cross-Border Higher Education, India, Innovation, international partnerships, international students, knowledge economy, partnership, trust, UK universities, UKIERI, University strategies on November 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This entry has been kindly prepared by Tim Gore, Director of The Centre for Indian Business, University of Greenwich, London, UK. Tim has worked closely with educationalists, institutions, companies and governments to improve bilateral and multilateral educational links in Hong Kong, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Jordan and India over a 23 year period. His most [...]
Analysing Australia’s global higher ed export industry
Posted in Asia, Australia, Bologna process, Brisbane Communique, China, Cross-Border Higher Education, European Higher Education Area, Foreign Students, New Zealand, Services, service exports, tagged Asian students, Australian higher education, Australian universities, Cross-Border Higher Education, Foreign Students, higher education services, service exports, services industries on June 24, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The globalization of higher education and research is creating and attracting new players and new analysts. Credit ratings agencies have, for example, started to pay more attention to the fiscal health of universities, while fund managers are seeking to play a role in guiding the investment strategies of university endowments in the United States, and [...]
Graphic feed: new data on higher education transitions in Asia
Posted in Asia, China, Japan, Malaysia, Multilateral agencies, tagged ADB, Asia, Asian Development Bank, Chinese universities, higher education on June 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Source: Asian Development Bank (2008) Education and Skills: Strategies for Accelerated Development in Asia and the Pacific, Manila: Asian Development Bank.
Surveying US dominance in science and technology for the Secretary of Defense
Posted in Asia, Brain mobility, China, European Higher Education Area, European Union, R&D, Science & technology, USA, creativity, intellectual property (IP), tagged American Council on Education, Bologna process, brain gain, Department of State, European Commission, Foreign Students, NASULGC, R&D, Rand Corporation, RAND National Defense Research Institute, Robert Gates, science and technology, Secretary of Defense, US AID, USA on June 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The global higher education and research landscape is a fast changing one at this point in history. Amongst many indicators we have increasingly powerful players (e.g., Kaplan, Thomson Reuters), new interregional and global imaginaries starting to generate broad effects (e.g., via the global dimensions of the Bologna Process), a series of coordinated multi-university attempts to [...]
Thomson Reuters, China, and ‘regional’ journals: of gifts and knowledge production
Posted in Audit culture, China, Innovation, R&D, benchmarking, citation indices, intellectual property (IP), patents, tagged bibliometrics, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese universities, intellectual property, IP, patents, Thomson Corporation, Thomson Reuters, Thomson Scientific, Web of science on May 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Numerous funding councils, academics, multilateral organizations, media outlets, and firms, are exhibiting enhanced interest in the evolution of the Chinese higher education system, including its role as a site and space of knowledge production. See these three recent contributions, for example:
‘Chinese City Partners with New York School‘, National Public Radio, 28 May 2008
‘Documenting China’s [...]
‘US universities no longer only game in town’ (on National Public Radio)
Posted in Africa, China, Cross-Border Higher Education, Egypt, Foreign Students, USA, tagged Foreign Students, China, Chinese universities, American University in Cairo, NPR on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
National Public Radio (NPR) in the United States played three shows on the 11 May Sunday Weekend Edition about global higher ed issues. All three are available below.
‘U.S. Universities No Longer Only Game in Town’
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Weekend Edition Sunday, May 11, 2008 – In the past few years there has been [...]
International students in the UK: interesting facts
Posted in Australia, Brain mobility, China, Foreign Students, Germany, India, New Zealand, OECD, Public universities, UK, internationalization, universities, tagged Australia, China, Europe, Germany, higher education, India, international students, New Zealand, OECD, UK Higher Education International Unit, USA on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Promoting and responding to the globalisation of the higher education sector are a myriad array of newer actors/agencies on the scene, including the UK Higher Education International Unit. Set up in 2007, the UK HE International Unit aims to provide:
credible, timely and relevant analysis to those managers engaged in internationalisation across [...]
Debating NYU Abu Dhabi and Liaoning Normal University-Missouri State University College of IB
Posted in Abu Dhabi, Capacity building, China, Cross-Border Higher Education, Dual degrees, NYU, Overseas Campuses, foreign campuses, joint degrees, service exports, tagged Abu Dhabi, Cross-Border Higher Education, Liaoning Normal University, Missouri State University, MSU, New York University, NYU on April 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The globalization of higher education is associated with a wide variety of trends and impacts, though these obviously vary across space, system, and type of institution.
One of these trends is institutional and program mobility; an emerging phenomenon we have paid significant attention to in GlobalHigherEd, including via these recent entries:
Just saying “no” to overseas branch [...]
UK-China partnerships and collaborations in higher education
Posted in China, Cross-Border Higher Education, Overseas Campuses, UK, tagged China, Hong Kong, international partnerships, Overseas Campuses, QA, Quality Assurance, transnational higher education, UK, UK universities on April 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Both China (PRC) and the Hong Kong SAR offer an expanding and highly competitive market opportunity for overseas higher education institutions (HEIs). As noted in a recent report commissioned by the British Council (UK-China-Hong Kong Transnational Education Project), a number of UK HEIs are providing hundreds of new ‘international’ degree programmes in Hong Kong and [...]
Trouble ahead? US Council of Graduate Schools survey reports overseas student applications slow to 3%
Posted in China, Cross-Border Higher Education, Foreign Students, R&D, USA, universities, tagged China, Council of Graduate Schools, Cross-Border Higher Education, Europe, Foreign Students, India, knowledge-based economy, Middle East, R&D, Student mobility, universities, USA on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A US Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) survey out this week paints a potentially worrying picture for all countries dependent on income generated by transborder higher education, whether because of fees income, or as a result of the brain-power transnational students contribute to R&D in the host economy. As we know, many graduate students, particularly [...]
Graphic feed: China’s higher education transformation
Posted in China, tagged China, Chinese higher education system, Chinese universities on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Source: Li, Y., Whalley, J., Zhang, S., and Zhao, X. (2008) ‘The higher educational transformation of China and its global implications’, National Bureau Of Economic Research Working Paper 13849.
Also see: ‘Documenting China’s higher ed explosion‘, Inside Higher Ed, 1 April 2008.
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