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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

Rankings Discourses: West, East and South

As I mentioned yesterday, I was at a conference of the International Rankings Expert Group (IREG) in Tashkent last week, hosted at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers.  I’ve been going to these meetings for close to 20 years now (I even had a minor role in drafting the “Berlin Principles on Rankings” in 2006) and I highly recommend them.  One learns a great deal about the differences in how rankings work, ways that higher education works

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May 3, 2023 No Comments

Letter from Samarkand

I spent last week in Uzbekistan attending a conference and seeing some sights.  I’ll talk about the conference tomorrow.  What I want to do today is talk a little bit about higher education in Uzbekistan, which is a pretty fascinating story. In terms of its “modern” higher education, the system is your basic post-Soviet story: not a lot of comprehensive universities, but an awful lot of specialized technical institutes, such as the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers,

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May 2, 2023 No Comments
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