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Category: Worldwide PSE

Books of the Year 2023

Morning, all.  The penultimate blog each year is about books.  This year, the penultimate blog in June was also about books, so you might want to go back here to see what I had to say about the crop I went through in the first half of the year.  In today’s effort, I’ll mostly stick to what I’ve read since mid-June. (But first, if you’re interested in some non-Higher Ed reading recommendations before XMAS: Valley of the Birdtail: an Indian

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December 12, 2023 2 Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Dec. 8th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  In today’s newsletter, we share articles about governance structures to coordinate institution’s response to GenAI, student perspectives on the use of GenAI, the need to train students on ethical uses of AI, ways in which GenAI can support student wellbeing, the need for better data training of AI tools, and more. Also, we are starting to plan our Winter 2024 AI Roundtables. If you’d like to suggest any topic or guest speaker, please reach out to

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December 8, 2023 No Comments

Top 10 Stories of 2023 in American Higher Education

Hi.  I’m Alex Usher and this is the World of Higher Education podcast. We’re going to mix up the format a little for this podcast. Joining me today is Robert Kelchen, professor and head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and author of the genuinely excellent book Higher Education Accountability from Johns Hopkins Press. In my view, Robert is among the sharpest eyes on the American higher education scene, someone who is always worth listening to.  In

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December 7, 2023 1 Comment

Post-Soviet Higher Education

In the immediate post-war period, the Soviet Union, despite the immense destruction that had been wreaked across its territory by the Nazi invasion of 1941-44, shocked the world with its rapid acquisition of what was then high technology, in particular with respect to the nuclear and space sectors. It also rose quickly ot have the world’s second largest university system, just behind the United States. Its prowess in education and Science provoked huge investments in higher education in science. But

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November 30, 2023 No Comments

Rankings Round-up (3): The Evolution of QS Rankings

Today, I will round out our rankings week by looking at the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Rankings.  These rankings have always been similar to the THE World University Rankings, because they spring from the same source: QS was the organization that actually ran the THE rankings for a few years, and when THE decided to bring the data operation in-house, QS just kept producing its rankings.  Like THE, its indicators for university rankings used are mostly a mix of field-normalized bibliometrics

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November 29, 2023 No Comments

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