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Category: Worldwide PSE

Mid-term Book Reviews 2023

Hi all.  You know the drill.  Every six months I tell you about the higher education books I’ve read this year so you can go to the beach armed with the best in higher education reading. But first, I hear you are interested in some non-higher-ed reading?  That sounds a bit weird to me, but I’ll oblige: My fiction pics for this last few months are The Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous, and The Stolen Bicycle by

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June 13, 2023 1 Comment

Higher Education in Saudi Arabia

In most of the world, you can count on certain features being present in higher education systems: co-education by gender, educating your best students at home, institutions complaining about funding, students complaining about funding, but one country defies most of these expectations. In Saudi Arabia, students are still, for the most part, taught in gender segregated classes. Nearly all students receive free tuition and generous maintenance grants, and tens of thousands of top students leave the country every year at

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June 12, 2023 No Comments

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

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