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Category: Worldwide PSE

“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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January 18, 2024 1 Comment

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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January 17, 2024 No Comments

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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January 12, 2024 No Comments

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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January 11, 2024 No Comments

Global Academic Excellence Initiatives

Hello. And welcome to the World of Higher Education Podcast. Higher Education varies a lot from one country to another, not just in its sophistication and level of support, but more fundamentally in terms of its aims and missions. One of the extraordinary things about the period from about 1995 to 2015 was that much of the world actually did start to converge on a common mission for higher education – and that was the creation and diffusion of new

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December 15, 2023 No Comments
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