Category: Worldwide PSE

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Jan. 19th, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  If you’ve been following the growth of our AI Observatory since it got launched last August, you’ve probably noticed that we’ve built quite an extensive database of institutional policies, statements, guidelines, and recommendations developed across the country and all around the world to respond to GenAI in higher education. In parallel, we’ve been keeping track of what they cover (or don’t). Combined with conversations with administrators and faculty, we now have an in-depth understanding of how

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“Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Resistance to Change in Higher Education” with Brian Rosenberg

 Hello, I’m Alex Usher, and this is the World of Higher Education podcast. One paradox of higher education that holds more or less true around the world is that while universities are charged with inventing the future, pushing boundaries, and aspiring contrarian and sometimes radical ideas, they’re also extremely conservative when it comes to their own affairs. Change does not come naturally to them anywhere in the world. Today my guest is Brian Rosenberg, a former president of Macalester University

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The Central Asia Play

Today let’s talk about four countries in Asia: Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. Japan, the first Asian country to modernize, went through a thoroughly transformative economic miracle in the 1950s and 1960s. It currently has a population of 125 million, 10th largest in the world. South Korea was the next of the so-called “Asian Tigers” to follow, achieving “developed-country” status in the 1980s and 1990s. It currently has a population of 51 million. Though both have been to some

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

Spotlight 2024 is off to a flying start, and with that comes a second round of AI Roundtables! Thanks to everyone who participated in our sessions in the Fall, and to those of you who shared your ideas and feedback with us.  We listened to you! In the new year, we’ll aim to make these sessions as “roundtable-y” as possible, and provide more opportunities for all participants to engage.  In the upcoming months, we’ll be diving into various topics that

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Javier Milei and Argentinian Higher Education

One of the most striking global political stories of 2023 was the presidential election in Argentina, where a relative newcomer, Javier Milei, with a mixed set of right wing and libertarian views, was elected to the presidency with a relatively large margin in the second round of voting on the 19th of November. At one level, the defeat of the ruling Peronist Party was not surprising, given the country’s general state of economic malaise and inflation running at well over

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