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What a Second Trump Presidency Could Mean for US Higher Education with Brendan Cantwell

Hi everyone. I’m Alex Usher, and this is the World of Higher Education Podcast. This fall, much of the world’s attention is focused on the United States, where Vice President Kamala Harris is squaring off with former President Donald Trump in the presidential election on November 5th. Education was one piece of the government apparatus where Trump 1. 0 was not actually all that radical. Yes, he appointed Betsy DeVos, a passionate advocate for private education and voucher schemes, to

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September 19, 2024 1 Comment

Rhetoric and Realities: The Evolution of UK Higher Education with Nick Hillman

Hi everyone. I’m Alex Usher and this is The World of Higher Education Podcast. Higher education in the United Kingdom — and more specifically England — is in notably perilous financial shape. A quick glance at the London papers suggests that one or more institutions may be on the verge of a financial collapse. The culprits? A funding regime that has allowed funding to erode with inflation every year since 2012, and a mostly Brexit-related collapse in international student numbers. Sort

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September 12, 2024 No Comments

Higher Education in a Polarized World with Simon Marginson

Welcome back to our third season of this podcast on global higher education affairs.  If like many of our fans you consume this podcast as text, you probably won’t notice much change.  But if you’re actually watching me right now, you’ll know that we have made the jump from audio to video.  It’s an absolutely naked attempt to tap into youtube and its larger audiences.  We hope you like the format change.  At the start of a new season it’s always a

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September 5, 2024 No Comments

Empire of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China with William C. Kirby

The history of the research university is a much-discussed thing. Fundamentally, these histories tend to focus on two countries: Germany, where it all began in 1810 thanks to the genius of Wilhelm von Humboldt, and the United States, which took fitful steps towards challenging Germany from the 1870s to the 1930s, at which point American universities, taking advantage of the exodus of scientific talent from Europe, moved decisively into a position of global intellectual leadership. And so things stayed for

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June 13, 2024 No Comments

Illiberal Universities

One of the most interesting stories in global higher education over the past couple of years has been the creeping government takeover of higher education in Hungary. The most famous example of this was the government expelling the George Soros-funded Central European University, which subsequently took up residence in Austria. Less well-known perhaps is the process of severing public universities from the state and creating Foundation universities. For the most part this meant giving institutions North American-style managerial and financial

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June 6, 2024 No Comments

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