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The Fifteen: January 24, 2025

Welcome back to The Fifteen, your source for news from around the world of higher education. In this edition, we’re taking a look at increases in tuition in Iran and Korea, as well as the development of an AI-focused university in Nigeria. We’re also following as another student movement takes on their government in Serbia. You may remember in the first edition of the Fifteen, we covered a similar story from Bangladesh, but interestingly, this isn’t the first time Serbian

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January 24, 2025 No Comments

The Governance of European Higher Education: Convergence or Divergence? with Michael Shattock

Higher education is famously isomorphic. Around the world, knowledge is divided into disciplines in almost identical ways. Around the world, students go through a largely similar bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate sequence. And around the world, higher education institutions are heavily stratified, mainly according to their research outputs. Higher education institutions aren’t exactly homogenous. But the systems they live in, what they do, what they cover, et cetera, are substantially similar, except for one thing. Governance. Governance can mean a few things

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January 23, 2025 No Comments

Beyond the Rhetoric: Mexico’s Higher Education Reality with Alma Maldonado Maldonado

Hi everyone. I’m Alex Usher, and this is the World of Higher Education podcast. If you’re a really faithful listener, you may remember that when the show was in beta and we were fooling around with formats and guests, we did an episode about Mexican higher education and its tribulations under the populist president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador or AMLO for short. Our guest that day was my friend, Alma Maldonado Maldonado, an education researcher at Cinvestav, which is the

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January 16, 2025 No Comments

The Fifteen: January 10, 2025

Our first Fifteen in the New Year! Although many institutions have been on winter break in recent weeks, numerous important stories from the world of higher education continue to unfold. This week on The Fifteen, we look at what’s happening around the globe. Enjoy!

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January 10, 2025 No Comments

Where Canada lies in Global Trends with Alex Usher

Happy New Year and Welcome back to the World of Higher Education Podcast! I’m Tiffany MacLennan, your host for the day which means our guest is the one and only, Alex Usher. In this episode, we’ll explore key global trends in higher education and then dive into how Canada fits—or doesn’t—within them. From widespread funding challenges to the politicization of universities and the evolving focus on vocational education, we’ll unpack how these issues play out on a global scale and what

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January 9, 2025 No Comments

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