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The Fifteen: October 11, 2024

Welcome back to another edition of The Fifteen, with a new list of ongoing and developing stories from around the world of higher education. The ongoing internationalization controversy, increasingly commercial education offerings and a tightening funding environment are not unique to Canada, and by tracking global trends in higher ed we’re hoping to deliver a global perspective on the sector. This edition picks up the trail in Canada as usual, looks at the response to continuing demographic shifts in China

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October 11, 2024 No Comments

Dutch Higher Education at a Crossroads: Coalition Politics and University Futures with Marijk van der Wende

A few months ago, there was an election in the Netherlands, one in which the most seats went to was the anti-immigration Party for Freedom, or PVV led by Geert Wilders.  After a few months of coalition negotiations between parties (something that is largely unknown in the anglosphere but is pretty common in Europe), a new governing majority was created that collectively agreed to a new set of priorities.  One of those priorities?  Cutting the living daylights out of funding

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October 10, 2024 No Comments

Centers for Teaching and Learning with Mary C. Wright

One of the many ironies about universities are its hiring processes. Universities need good teachers, and so of course they find the best researchers to fill those jobs. It was an understanding of the problematic nature of this approach that led to the creation of various activities in universities designed to assist professors in developing their craft as teachers. This in turn led to a more sophisticated understanding of teaching as merely the complement of learning, and from there it

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October 3, 2024 1 Comment

The Fifteen: September 27

Welcome back to the second edition of The Fifteen, where we’re bringing you the most relevant stories from around the world of higher education every two weeks. From edition to edition, we’ll highlight a mix of breaking news stories and revisit old threads as they continue to develop. This time, we’ve got five new studies and ten stories from nine countries on four continents. Strap in and enjoy your trip! Tying up that last thread: tickets for the AI-CADEMY: Canada

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September 27, 2024 No Comments

Building the Future: Inside Qatar Foundation’s Vision for Education and Innovation

Change of plan today. I was supposed to be interviewing Mary C. Wright about her new book on Centres for Teaching and Learning. However, a scheduling issue arose, so we took the show on the road, around the world, to a place that maybe doesn’t get discussed enough. The city of Doha in Qatar. Thirty years ago, the Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and his wife, Sheikha Moza, created the Qatar Foundation. Among the Foundation’s most important

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September 26, 2024 1 Comment

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