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Culture Wars in American Higher Education

It is not particularly novel to note that American higher education has been in the midst of a major culture war for the past five or ten years. Universities have traditionally thought of themselves as politically neutral, a place where opposing sides in political debate could meet and resolve disagreements if not through rational examinations of data then at least through constructive debate. The idea that universities might be seen as “biased” in one direction or another is not a

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May 2, 2024 No Comments

EdTech with Phil Hill

In many ways, the biggest stories of the last twenty years in global higher education have been stories about technology. Massive Open Online Courses — also known as MOOCs, the rise and spectacular fall of private on-line higher education, the rise (in the United States at least) of major public-sector online universities, and the rise and controversy over so-called Online Program Management providers — or OPMs. And of course, the great global experiment in remote learning that was COVID. These

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April 18, 2024 No Comments

Private Higher Education in India

When we talk about private higher education, our minds obviously rush immediately to the United States, where a mix of world class universities like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton coexist with a range of low quality for-profits. And almost everything in between. Sometimes we think of places like Korea or Japan — much more heavily regulated, but like the U.S. possessing some very high-quality private institutions. Or like Chile or Brazil, where large numbers of low to middle in quality privates

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April 11, 2024 1 Comment

Mariupol State University: The Invincible University

On February 24th, 2022, the Russian Federation launched an unprovoked full-scale invasion of its neighbor, Ukraine. In an instant, the entire country became a battlefield. We all remember the names of the cities and towns that came under attack in those early months of the war. Irpin. Bucha. Kharkiv. Kherson. And, more than anywhere else: Mariupol. Twenty-six months ago, Mariupol was a town of 425000 people. Historically, it was a city with a peaceful mix of Russian- and Ukrainian speaking

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April 4, 2024 No Comments

Australian Universities Accord – One Year Follow Up with Andrew Norton

Hi everyone. I’m Alex Usher and this is The World of Higher Education Podcast When we started this podcast about thirteen months ago, our very first episode was about Australia and what was known as the “Universities Accord”. The Accord wasn’t actually a deal as the name implies: it was essentially a kind of expert-led panel designed to consult widely and deliver a blueprint for Australian higher education for the next quarter-century. It was meant to cover everything: access and attainment,

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March 28, 2024 No Comments

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