GlobalHigherEd was established in the Fall of 2007 at the start of a wonderful year long sabbatical at Sciences Po in Paris (for Kris), and an inspiring four month long visiting professorship at the University of Amsterdam (for Susan). Alas our ‘regular’ schedules are relatively hectic now so we are attempting to be creative with [...]
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Twittering for GlobalHigherEd
Posted in Blog stuff, Uncategorized on October 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Saudi Arabia unveils co-ed ‘House of Wisdom’/Postcards from Saudi Arabia: The KAUST inauguration
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Choon Fong Shih, Fleishman-Hillard, IIE, Institute of International Education, Karen Holbrook, KAUST, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Mary Robinson, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Aramco, Washington Advisory Group on October 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Editor’s note: this entry (which consists of two parts, one brief survey of themes, and one informal series of ‘postcards’) was prepared by Dr. Kimberly Coulter on the basis of her visit to Jeddah and Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Coulter attended the opening of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and had a [...]
Indian students in Australia: how did it come to this?
Posted in Australia, Brain mobility, Cross-Border Higher Education, Foreign Students, India, Uncategorized, tagged Australia, Australian higher education, Australian tertiary education, Cross-Border Higher Education, Foreign Students, Indian students on August 11, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Editor’s note: this contribution, by Christopher Ziguras examines the complex factors shaping ongoing debates, and recent crisis, about Indian students in Australia. Christopher Ziguras (pictured to the right) is Associate Professor of International Studies in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT, Melbourne. His research focuses on international education policy, particularly [...]
International partnerships: a legal guide for universities
Posted in UK, internationalization, tagged Department for Employment and Learning (Northern Ireland), Eversheds, Guild HE, HEFCE, Higher Education Funding Council for England, Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, internationalization, Scottish Funding Council, UK Higher Education International Unit, Universities UK, UUK on July 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Greetings mid-July. Susan and I have been travelling a lot via our respective jobs, so please excuse the slow pace of updates to GlobalHigherEd.
My return to Madison a few days ago corresponded with an embargoed (until today) press release from the UK Higher Education International Unit. The press release relates to a new report (International [...]
The global geographies of stem cell research activity and policy
Posted in R&D, Regional development, Science & technology, stem cell research, tagged human embryonic stem cell research, life sciences, R&D, S&T, science and technology, stem cell research, stem cells on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today’s Financial Times includes a full page analysis (‘An industry to grow‘) that examines aspects of state-society-economy relations with respect to stem cell research.
The author, Clive Cookson (who also runs the FT.com Science Blog), deftly weaves five threads through the article: the role of the state, and inter-state competition, in shaping a very geographically uneven [...]
Associations, networks, alliances, etc.: making sense of the emerging global higher education landscape
Posted in Associations, Consortia, Networks, Uncategorized, tagged Consortia, IAU, International Association of Universities, university consortia on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Note: this presentation, and associated discussion paper (in English), were produced for the International Association of Universities (IAU) 3rd Global Meeting of Associations of Universities (GMAIII), Guadalajara, Mexico – 20-22 April 2009. Link here for French and Spanish versions of the same discussion paper.
CRELL: critiquing global university rankings and their methodologies
Posted in Europe, European Higher Education Area, Global and Regional Benchmarks/Indexes, Rankings & Ranking Resources, University Rankings, benchmarking, bibliometrics, tagged benchmarking, bibliometrics, Europe, European Higher Education Area, Global and Regional Benchmarks/Indexes, Shanghai Jiao Tong university rankings, Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings, Times Higher World University Rankings, University Rankings on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This guest entry has been kindly prepared for us by Beatrice d’Hombres and Michaela Saisana of the EU-funded Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning (CRELL) and Joint Research Centre. This entry is part of a series on the processes and politics of global university rankings (see here, here, here and here).
Since 2006, Beatrice d’Hombres has [...]
Mapping out Europe’s progress towards a knowledge-based economy
Posted in Europe, European Research Area, European Union, Science & technology, Uncategorized, tagged Directorate-General Research, ERA, European Commission, European Research Area, European Union on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research has just published an informative and data-laden report titled Science, Technology and Competitiveness Key Figures Report 2008/2009. As the press release notes, the main findings are:
1. Research is a key competitive asset in a globalised world.
Major S&T players have emerged, notably in Asia. Knowledge is more and more evenly [...]
US-European academic collaboration via transatlantic joint and dual degree programs
Posted in Double degrees, Dual degrees, Europe, USA, joint degrees, tagged Atlantis Program, Double degrees, Dual degrees, Freie Universität Berlin, IIE, Institute for International Education, joint degrees, transatlantic, transatlantic joint and dual/double degree programs on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Back in May 2008, we profiled a call for input into a survey by the US-based Institute of International Education (IIE) and the Germany-based Freie Universität Berlin regarding joint and dual/double degrees (see ‘Special survey on transatlantic joint and dual/double degree programs’). We’re interested in this phenomenon as it helps to suture together and de-nationalize, albeit [...]
Linking to map out the globalization of higher education and research
Posted in Uncategorized on January 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Greetings from the edge of UW-Madison’s snowy campus.
We are in the process of substantially enhancing the links column to the far right of this page. The broad objective of this initiative is to provide links to relevant institutions, actors, events, and so on, while also providing some indicators and proxy measures of the nature of [...]
Season’s Greetings from GlobalHigherEd!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Season’s Greetings from Susan (in rainy Bristol), Kris (in snowy Madison), and all of those associated with GlobalHigherEd!
New global higher ed books by key stakeholders
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Academic Cooperation Association, Bologna process, EDUCAUSE, European Higher Ed, IT on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
During the course of the last few days, we’ve been informed about two relevant books that are likely to be of interest to GlobalHigherEd readers. The titles and associated summaries are below, with links to the sources.
Katz, Richard N. (ed.) (2008) The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing, EDUCAUSE.
The [...]
