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From Soviet Influence to Market Economy: Mongolia’s Higher Education Journey

It’s been a while since we did an episode looking at the higher education system of a far-flung corner of the world. Recently I was perusing the pages of International Higher Education, a wonderful quarterly publication out of Boston College, and I saw a great little article about the challenges facing Mongolian higher education, and I knew this was something we had to cover on the podcast. Unless you spend a lot of time reading about the Chinggis Khan Empire,

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March 20, 2025 No Comments

Connecting Universities in a Divided World: International Association of Universities’ Mission

There are a lot of transnational associations of universities out there. Some are meant to advance specific political goals, like the European Universities Association. Others exist simply to support their members without engaging in lobbying or political work, such as the African Association of Universities, whose former president, Ernest Aryeetey, was a guest on the show last year. But the oldest of all these associations is the International Association of Universities (IAU), based in Paris and created by UNESCO in

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March 13, 2025 No Comments

Why Boycott? Maya Wind on the Case Against Israeli Universities

Over the past few years, calls for the boycott of Israeli universities have grown louder. This discourse generally entwines two different sets of arguments. The first is an argument about the effectiveness or validity of academic boycotts.  The second, because it’s Israel, is about whether Israeli universities are being unfairly targeted due to anti-Semitism. Curiously, what Israeli universities themselves might have specifically done to deserve is often relegated to an afterthought. My guest today is Maya Wind. She is an

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March 6, 2025 1 Comment

Students on the Frontlines: The Ongoing Protests in Serbia with Jim Dickinson

If I say the word “Serbia”, chances are your mind goes to things like the NATO air attacks of 1999 and the associated Kosovo War, to the breakup of Yugoslavia and to Marshal Tito and maybe – if you’re more historically-minded – to the origins of World War I.  It probably doesn’t go to higher education or radical student politics. But that’s kind of unfortunate because in fact Serbia’s recent history has had plenty of instances where youth- or student-based

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February 20, 2025 No Comments

Data, Decisions, and Disruptions: Inside the World of University Rankings

University rankings are pretty much everywhere. Though the earliest university rankings in the U. S. date back to the early 1900s and the modern ones from the 1983 debut of the U. S. News and World Report rankings. The kind of rankings we tend to talk about now, international or global rankings, really only date back to 2003 with the creation of the Shanghai Academic Rankings of World Universities. Over the decade that followed that first publication, a triumvirate emerged

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February 13, 2025 No Comments

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