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American Higher Education in 2023

This week my guest on the podcast is Chris Marsicano, a professor of Educational Studies at Davidson College in North Carolina. We discuss what’s ahead for higher education in the United States in 2023. It’s easy enough to shrug in despair at the United States and higher education these days.  The country barely got out of the Trump years with democracy intact, and since then higher education – which for decades mostly maintained strong bipartisan support – has become a

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February 16, 2023 No Comments

The Jacinda Ardern Legacy

It’s Thursday, and that means it’s time for episode 2 of The World of Higher Education podcast.  Today my guest is Dave Guerin, Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief of Tertiary Insight, a higher education news service based in Wellington.  Our subject: the higher education record of recently resigned New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Ardern came to power promising to eliminate tuition fees over the course of three terms in office, only to reverse course after one term, with the promise

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February 9, 2023 No Comments

The Politics of Student Loan Debt

I am sure most of my readers are aware of the Biden Administration’s plans to forgive student loans.  However, what may have gone under the radar is the way the current administration is staking a lot of money on an attempt to re-build the country’s student loan system.  The basics are this: the Democrats want to make student aid repayment easier in three ways.  The first is by raising the repayment threshold – that is, the income level at which

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February 8, 2023 1 Comment

The World of Higher Education Podcast

Episode 1.1: The Australian Universities Accord Guest: Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education at the Centre for Social Research and Methods at the Australian National University Producers: Tiffany MacLennan and Samantha Pufek Hi everyone.  This is the very first episode of The World of Higher Education. This podcast is dedicated to telling you about higher education around the world. Every Thursday, we will have guests from different countries discussing trends, developments, and news from their neck of the woods. (For

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February 2, 2023 No Comments

Budgets, Control, Incentives, Rankings

Hi everyone.  Just a quick one today, an incomplete follow-up to Tuesday’s blog on rankings. One of the points I made on Tuesday was that several universities – and specifically, nearly all of the Australian ones apart from ANU – have made enormous strides in the rankings over the past 20 years, and this had been done largely in the absence of any funding boost.  A few of you were quick to point out that in fact there has been

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January 27, 2023 No Comments

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