Category: Blogs

American Higher Education in 2023

This week my guest on the podcast is Chris Marsicano, a professor of Educational Studies at Davidson College in North Carolina. We discuss what’s ahead for higher education in the United States in 2023. It’s easy enough to shrug in despair at the United States and higher education these days.  The country barely got out of the Trump years with democracy intact, and since then higher education – which for decades mostly maintained strong bipartisan support – has become a

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The Jacinda Ardern Legacy

It’s Thursday, and that means it’s time for episode 2 of The World of Higher Education podcast.  Today my guest is Dave Guerin, Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief of Tertiary Insight, a higher education news service based in Wellington.  Our subject: the higher education record of recently resigned New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Ardern came to power promising to eliminate tuition fees over the course of three terms in office, only to reverse course after one term, with the promise

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The World of Higher Education Podcast

Episode 1.1: The Australian Universities Accord Guest: Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education at the Centre for Social Research and Methods at the Australian National University Producers: Tiffany MacLennan and Samantha Pufek Hi everyone.  This is the very first episode of The World of Higher Education. This podcast is dedicated to telling you about higher education around the world. Every Thursday, we will have guests from different countries discussing trends, developments, and news from their neck of the woods. (For

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Mexican Higher Education and the Lopez Obrador Presidency

Welcome to the first podcast episode of 2023. As you read in Monday’s blog, the format of the podcast will be changing over the next few weeks. We are excited to bring you more stories of higher education from around the globe, including the countries highlighted the World Higher Education Review. While the formatting and branding will be changing, the quality insight our guests bring will not. This week we’re joined by Alma Maldonado-Maldonado of Mexico’s CINEVSTAV as we discuss

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