Category: The Fifteen

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

Welcome back for another edition of The Fifteen. For the past two weeks, it seems like there have only been two stories in higher education: the Trump attacks on higher education and the QS world subject rankings. We cover the first, of course, but also stories of growing pains, corruption, ambition and blatant rent-seeking from places as far afield as Korea, Italy, Brazil, Vietnam and China. Enjoy. The Trump administration is, understandably, a magnet for media attention that can make