Category: The Fifteen

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in higher education. There are the downstream consequences of the attack on Iran, interesting developments on the left and the right in Latin America, a couple of important global reports and some AI-related developments in China as it approaches adoption of the 15th five-year plan. Let’s go! 1. The American/Israeli attack on Iran (and, secondarily, Lebanon) is having cascading effects across higher education. The first-order consequence is that universities in both Iran and Lebanon have been bombed, causing

Gather ‘round, all! This edition, we have absurd policy proposals from Australia and the UK, deceptive military recruitment practices in Russia, a battle over a rectorship in Colombia, and free McDonald’s meals for students in Malaysia. Let’s get started. That’s it for now, everyone.  See you back here on March 20.

Just a quick reminder before we move into the one thought of the day: we’ve officially launched HESA’s Transnational Education (TNE) Strategy Project and are now looking to finalize our founding cohort of member institutions. If your institution is exploring (or re-examining) transnational education as part of its future strategy, we’re inviting expressions of interest by February 23. You can learn more about the project here. Good morning. Not much of a unifying theme to this issue of The Fifteen:

Hi all. The Fifteen is back with the choicest higher education stories from around the world over the past two weeks.    That’s all for now: see you back here in two weeks.

Hi all. It’s been over a month since the last Fifteen and you might think that the world of higher education would slow down over the holidays, but you’d be wrong. Buckle up, this is a big one. 1. Back in December the government in Bulgaria was forced to resign due to anti-corruption protests that were mainly led by students (although increasingly student protest is being called “Gen Z protests”, which is interesting and I would love to understand why). Iran is also currently undergoing a spasm of