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European Universities Association

When you think about big, visionary ideas in higher education, an abnormal number of them over the past few decades have comes from Europe. The Erasmus Program. The Bologna Process. Diploma Supplements. An effort-based credit system. Tuning. Challenge-based research competitions. European University Alliances. European Degrees. And while these ideas have many sources, an abnormally high proportion of them comes from one place: the City of Brussels and the supra-national European Commission which resides there.  At a certain level, this is

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May 16, 2024 No Comments

European University Alliances

For a long time, whatever came out of Europe in terms of big higher education ideas made waves overseas. The Bologna Process was widely imitated, or at least name-dropped as something that it would be good to do (I remember people talking about a Canadian Bologna Process, even though we were already a common higher education area). Erasmus, diploma supplements, the Tuning Process have all also have their moments in the sun. But, over the last four years, there has

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May 14, 2024 1 Comment

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (May 12th, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  In today’s newsletter, you’ll find articles about US community colleges’ responses to AI, recommendations on where educators should focus their attention with respect to this technology, and reflections on the future of higher ed and critical thinking.  If you’ve missed our latest One Thought to Start Your Day blog on AI, you can read it here.  Finally, don’t miss out on the last AI Roundtable of our 2024 Winter series, focusing on Decolonization. See below for

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May 12, 2024 No Comments

Higher Education in China

One of the things we try to do on this show is introduce people to various higher education systems around the world and the various histories that shaped those systems. In doing so we have had some marvellous discussions: with Dr. Pushkar on India, Andrée Sursock on France, Marcelo Knobel in Brazil and Maria Yudkevich in Russia. But one major system we haven’t done yet is China. China is a hard country to a handle on. It’s massive, obviously. And its post-secondary education system

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May 9, 2024 No Comments

Cité internationale universitaire de Paris

Nested between the Parc Monsouris and the Boulevard Péréphique, at the very southern end of the 14ieme arrondissement, lies the absolute apotheosis of one vision of international education. And that is the Cité Universitaire Internationale de Paris (CIUP). CIUP is not a university in and of itself. It is, rather, a set of student residences which serves universities and Grandes écoles and other institutions like Sciences Po across the entire city. The history is a little bit complicated because until

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May 8, 2024 1 Comment

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One Thought to Start Your Day is our founder and CEO Alex Usher’s popular daily blog, brimming with up-to-the-minute insights and informed opinions on today’s higher education industry.

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