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Is Japan Stirring?

I am in Tokyo this week and next (part vacation—the sumo was excellent, thanks for asking —and part study tour with the University Vice-President’s Network), so of course it’s time for another of my periodic attempts to sum up what’s going on in this always-fascinating country. Japan is—or at least was—known as a “hi-tech” society. But this, oddly enough, never meant that it was a “science” society. Japan for the most part did not get rich by developing its own

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March 19, 2025 No Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (March 16, 2025)

Spotlight Wow. It’s already been a week since AI-CADEMY, and I’m still hung up on all the vibrant discussions that happened in Calgary, the insights shared by all, and the palpable eagerness to learn and collaborate. If you haven’t already, make sure to read Alex’s Wednesday blog for a quick summary (and if you attended, there are more post-event follow-ups coming your way soon) – but on a more personal note, I want to express how much of a privilege

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March 16, 2025 No Comments

Connecting Universities in a Divided World: International Association of Universities’ Mission

There are a lot of transnational associations of universities out there. Some are meant to advance specific political goals, like the European Universities Association. Others exist simply to support their members without engaging in lobbying or political work, such as the African Association of Universities, whose former president, Ernest Aryeetey, was a guest on the show last year. But the oldest of all these associations is the International Association of Universities (IAU), based in Paris and created by UNESCO in

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March 13, 2025 No Comments

How UK Universities are Different

I spent a couple of days in late February in the UK at a meeting of the Higher Education Strategic Planning Association (HESPA). I found it interesting, not just because of the sessions themselves but because I actually got to understand something pretty important about how UK universities work. And friends, they do not work the way they do over here in our neck of the woods. I had noted from the outset that there wasn’t really any organization like

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March 9, 2025 1 Comment

The Fifteen: March 7, 2025

Welcome back to another issue of The Fifteen. Read stories from expanding higher education markets like Egypt, India, and Nigeria, as well as from ones facing some different challenges, such as Lithuania, Korea and Italy, plus: important news out of the increasingly beleaguered American higher education sector. Happy reading. 1. In 2008, the Lumina Foundation set a goal of 60% attainment rate for post-secondary education in the US by 2025. Today 55% of American adults hold some type of higher-ed

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March 7, 2025 No Comments

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