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Venezuelan Higher Education

This week’s guest on The World of Higher Education Podcast is Juan Carlos Navarro, international expert in higher education, innovation and digital talent; senior advisor to several international institutions and universities; and Member of the international faculty of the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración, in Caracas, Venezuela. He joins us talk about what has happened to higher education in Venezuela under the rule of Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro, and their Bolivarian Socialist regime over the past 25 years. The story here

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April 6, 2023 No Comments

Instrumentality

This week’s guest on The World of Higher Education Podcast is Ethan Schrum, Associate Professor of history at Asuza Pacific University in California. Ethan is the author of a very nice work called The Instrumental University: Education in the Service of the National Agenda Since World War II which puts into perspective a very important piece of the history of higher education in North America. We’re used to universities making big claims about being “essential” societal institutions, valuable tools, “instruments” for the state

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March 30, 2023 No Comments

Study Gods and Losers

This week’s guest on the World of Higher Education Podcast is Yi-Lin Chiang, author of Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition which was published in 2022 by Princeton University Press. It’s a really extraordinary work of ethnography, following a group of students from a pair of elite Beijing secondary schools as they make their way towards China’s extremely challenging Gaokao system and on to university in China and beyond.  I reviewed it a few months ago and I was

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March 23, 2023 1 Comment

Arab Higher Education

This week’s The World of Higher Education podcast features the work of Dr. Elizabeth Buckner from the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.  Dr. Buckner is the author of Degrees of Dignity: Arab Higher Education in the Global Era, published by the U of T Press in 2022.  It’s an excellent book on a topic that doesn’t get a lot of space in English language presses so I was very happy to see this book appear and even happier

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March 16, 2023 No Comments

Corruption in South African Higher Education

This week’s World of Higher Education podcast episode takes us to South Africa.  My guest today is Dr. Jonathan Jansen, a distinguished professor of education at Stellenbosch University, just outside Cape Town, and president of the Academy of Science in South Africa.  And we’re talking about his absolutely harrowing new book, Corrupted: A Study of Chronic Dysfunction in South African Universities. You may have heard tales over the past decade or so about various state agencies in South Africa having

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March 9, 2023 No Comments

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