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From Jazz to Symphony

I spent all last week in Asia, at events put on by the International Association of Universities (IAU) in Tokyo and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Jakarta. As usual, these meetings were interesting for me not so much because I can discover secrets of “how they do things better elsewhere” (they don’t, by and large, we’re all screwed for roughly the same reasons, which is that the public does not want to pay for the kind

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December 3, 2024 4 Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (December 1, 2024)

Spotlight Good evening, In my last AI blog, I wrote about the recent launch of the Canadian AI Safety Institute, and other AISIs around the world. I also mentioned that I was looking forward to learn more about what would be discussed during the International Network for AI Safety meeting that would take place on November 20th-21st. Well, here’s the gist of it. Representatives from Australia, Canada, the European Commission, France, Japan, Kenya, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, the UK

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December 1, 2024 No Comments

From 36,000 to 12,000: Tracking the Decline in EU Students Post-Brexit with Paul Wakeling

Eight and a half years ago, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union.  Among many, many other consequences, that meant the UK voted to change the status of tens of thousands of European students from “domestic” to “international” students, with all the financial disadvantages that entailed. You see, within the European Union all students, regardless of where they are from are considered “domestic”, and must be treated no differently that students from the country.  In

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November 28, 2024 No Comments

The Fifteen: November 22, 2024

Welcome back to another edition of The Fifteen, your source for new and developing stories in Higher Education from around the world. As usual, we start in Canada, where universities are sounding the alarm as their finances continue to weaken. A similar situation unfolds in the UK and Australia, and we’re taking a look at how governments and institutions are reacting there. We also have three stories in foreign languages this week (Italian, Ukrainian and Spanish), which you can read

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November 22, 2024 1 Comment

Unrest and Reform: Bangladesh’s Youth Movement and Higher Education with Sharowat Shamin

In our terminally postmodern world, it’s easy to discount student political movements. It has after all been decades since they were a major political factor in most Western countries. To the extent that we’ve seen them provoke major disruptions in recent decades, it’s tended to be in the service of rather narrow and self interested issues like tuition fees, as in South Africa in 2015 and 2016 and Quebec in 2011 and 2012. And yet we do know that in

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November 21, 2024 1 Comment

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