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Universities and Gap Years

When starting out in international comparative higher education, one of the hardest things to do is to keep an open mind.  Universities are universities, you think.  They may vary in the way they are managed and funded, but what they are for, what they do and who they serve is the same everywhere, isn’t it?  But this is not, in fact, true.  And one of the most basic ways that universities around the world differ is the ages of the

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April 2, 2025 4 Comments

That Was The Quarter That Was, Winter 2025

 I’m trying something new today.  Every second Friday since last September, HESA’s Matt Doyle and I have been putting together the Fifteen – a list of interesting stories on higher education from around the world.  I am hoping to turn the results of this little project, along with some data analysis on student enrolments and university finances, into an annual almanac – a little bit like State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada only a bit more narrative and a lot more global.  As a

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March 31, 2025 1 Comment

The Learning Centred University with Steven Mintz

Hi everyone, Tiffany and Sam here — your World of Higher Education podcast producers. While Alex is away in Japan, we’re here to introduce this week’s episode. In this interview, Alex speaks with Steven Mintz, a renowned scholar and postdoctoral researcher, and author of the book, “The Learning-Centered University: Making College a More Developmental, Transformational, and Equitable Experience” In the following conversation, Mintz discusses what makes a learning-centered university, the benefits of active learning over traditional lectures, and the practical

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March 27, 2025 No Comments

The Fifteen, March 21, 2025

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

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March 21, 2025 No Comments

From Soviet Influence to Market Economy: Mongolia’s Higher Education Journey

It’s been a while since we did an episode looking at the higher education system of a far-flung corner of the world. Recently I was perusing the pages of International Higher Education, a wonderful quarterly publication out of Boston College, and I saw a great little article about the challenges facing Mongolian higher education, and I knew this was something we had to cover on the podcast. Unless you spend a lot of time reading about the Chinggis Khan Empire,

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March 20, 2025 No Comments

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