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Category: Worldwide PSE

Performance-Based Funding in Europe

If you’re in North America, you know that one of the perennial debates in higher education finance is about the efficacy of performance-based funding, or PBF, with the bulk of the academic evidence suggesting in one way or another that such schemes do not achieve their purported aims. On this week’s episode of The World of Higher Education Podcast, Dr. Ben Jongbloed from the Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies – that’s CHEPS – at the University of Twente in

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May 26, 2023 1 Comment

Colombian Higher Education

On this week’s episode of the World of Higher Education Podcast, Javier Botero joins us to discuss Colombian higher education. These days he’s a lead consultant at the World Bank, but formerly he was the Vice Minister of Higher Education in Colombia, and he’s here with us today to provide an overview of recent policy developments in the nation. Colombia’s higher education system is complex. In addition to a large number of universities, it also has two other sectors, one

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May 18, 2023 No Comments

The World’s Rising Scientific Research Nations

I was sitting at home this weekend, reading the UNESCO World Science Report (2021), as one does, when I started poking around with the actual bibliometric numbers.  And damned if there weren’t some big surprises in there.  First: what is the UNESCO World Science Report?  Well, it’s a pretty interesting document which has appeared periodically since 1993.  Over time, the document has become longer and more complicated.  And for the last few editions, it has produced some statistical annexes examining

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May 16, 2023 1 Comment

Nigerian Higher Education

On today’s episode of the World of Higher Education podcast, we’re talking about Nigerian higher education. Economically and politically, Nigeria is one of Africa’s powerhouses. Yet, when it comes to higher education, it trails significantly. To help us understand why that’s the case, Dr. Olabisi Deji-Folutile joins us. Dr. Deji-Folutile is editor-in-chief of Frank Talk Now and chief operating officer of AF24 News, who writes frequently on higher education matters from Lagos. Many of the Nigerian system woes are economic

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May 11, 2023 No Comments

Universities on Fire

On this week’s episode of The World of Higher Education Podcast, Bryan Alexander joins us to talk about his new book, Universities on Fire, Higher Education in the Climate Crisis, which was published in March by Johns Hopkins University Press. Climate crisis books are a dime a dozen. This book is one of the few that looks at climate action through the lens of a particular economic sector or set of actors, in this case, our own sector of universities

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May 4, 2023 No Comments

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