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Category: Funding and Finances

The Dog That Didn’t Bark

For the last few weeks, I’ve been giving you little snippets from World Higher Education: Institutions, Students and Funding.  Today, I want to address a topic that came up in the document’s webinar launch (available at the University World News’ YouTube channel). It’s something I haven’t really been able to talk about because it’s something that didn’t appear in the report for the simple reason that it didn’t happen. It is, to some extent, the dog that didn’t bark.  But

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April 4, 2022 No Comments

Inflation

One of the less-anticipated outcomes of the COVID pandemic is the return of inflation at levels not seen in nearly thirty years.  It is not yet clear if this inflation is something transitory, or something more long-term.  The supply-chain snarls of mid-2021 have been followed by inflationary spikes due to rising oil prices and now – with the invasion of Ukraine – major spikes in food prices world-wide.  In theory, each of these things is a one-off.  But as wages

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March 24, 2022 2 Comments

The Rise – and dilemma – of the Global South.

You may all have seen the recent University World News article about HESA’s big new publication, World Higher Education: Institutions, Students, and Funding (written by Jonathan Williams and myself), which is actually going live on March 31st.  For the next few weeks, you’ll be getting some deep dives into the biggest stories that our data has thrown up.  And today I want to talk about the biggest story of them all: the rise of the Global South. (Small methodological note:

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March 15, 2022 No Comments

A Closer Look at Chinese Higher Education

China has been home to the world’s largest higher education system for more than a decade now.  Everyone is aware of China’s rise in research over the last two decades: Lord knows the Times Higher Education drowned us all in “Rise of Asia” (by which they really meant “rise of China”) stories for much of the 2010s.  But have you noticed how little we’ve heard lately?  And I don’t just mean during COVID – the chatter about China was declining

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March 9, 2022 1 Comment

Higher Education Funding in Oil-Dependent Jurisdictions

I was fooling around this weekend with some data on public higher education funding for HESA’s forthcoming publication World Higher Education: Institutions, Students, Finances.  For the most part, the report’s data shows that funding around the world continues to increase, but not always enough to offset student number growth or inflation.  It’s not flashy growth, but it is fairly consistent. There are three significant exceptions: Indonesia, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia, all of them OPEC members.  In these countries have recently

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February 14, 2022 1 Comment

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