Category: The Fifteen

Welcome to The Fifteen, a global round-up of the stories animating higher education institutions and systems around the globe. Let’s get to it. 1. From the US, an update on the Compact: of the nine original invitees, there are now seven “no”s, one “we’re not not saying no” (Vanderbilt) and one radio silence (UT Austin). In the face of near-universal rejection, Trump issued an open invitation to all institutions to sign the deal but none have yet done so, not even deep red-state public universities (yet, anyway). This

Welcome to The Fifteen, a global round-up of the stories animating higher education institutions and systems around the globe. Let’s get to it. And that’s the mid-October edition of the Fifteen. See you back here on Hallowe’en for the next edition. The blog is off next week, but you can still join Tiffany MacLennan for Focus Friday on October 24 (they’ll be chatting about international student enrolment).

Welcome to The Fifteen, a global round-up of the stories animating higher education institutions and systems around the globe. Let’s get to it. And just for this once, I will add a sixteenth: the IgNobel prize was awarded this week, to a scholar from Bath University in England, for a piece of research showing that small amounts of alcohol can improve your pronunciation of a foreign language. I’ll drink to that.

Welcome to The Fifteen, a global round-up of the stories animating higher education institutions and systems around the globe. Let’s get to it. See you back here in two weeks!

Welcome back to year two of the Fifteen. I think I’ve got the hang of this finally, so I think this will be a much better product now.  Without further ado then, some of the world’s biggest higher ed stories from the last three weeks or so.   That’s all folks.  See you back here in two weeks.