Category: The Fifteen

Welcome to the final edition of Fifteen before our summer break. Today’s voyages take us from Harvard (where else?) to Tashkent, Paris to Moscow, Dubai to Fez with a very brief stop in North Mitrovica.  Too much is Trump-related, too much of it is about financial ills, but there are also some good news stories with respect to increased access to higher education as well.

Welcome to the seventeenth edition of The Fifteen. This week, we chart the shifting currents in global higher education—from mass firings in Afghanistan to a national support staff strike in Ghana to some odd collateral damage from recent Indo-Pakistani tensions. Lots of disappointing news about funding cuts, stories of governments trying to deal with issues of security, program length and the regulation of private sector universities, and the arrival of a truly eye-rolling set of rankings. Enjoy! That’s our bi-weekly

Welcome to the sixteenth edition of The Fifteen. We track research funding shake-ups in Brussels’ ERC “supergrants” and a defence-focused tweak to Horizon Europe. Meanwhile, higher education resources continue to be stretched thin: half of UK universities are axing courses under financial duress, and US public colleges face a looming crisis driven by proposed cuts to Medicaid. We look at student union leaders’ fight with their predecessors, now turned politicians, and track Labour’s big win in Australia. Finally, a set

Welcome back to the fifteenth edition of The Fifteen (fifteen squared?). The ongoing story in the world of higher education is Trump’s persistent attacks on the sector; the new element is the extent to which other countries are trying to take advantage of the situation to lure American academics abroad. We also note some big policy moves in Algeria and Ethiopia, more unrest in Serbia, a scandal in India, some shock good news on higher education funding in Austria, and