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Category: Worldwide PSE

Classifying Tuition Fee Regimes

By Alex Usher and Jonathan Williams In the global discussion about tuition fees and cost-sharing, the most common – and the most simplistic – way to divide up countries is into countries which are “free tuition” and those which are not.  But it’s not actually anywhere near that simple.  When it comes to student fees, national systems vary along four axes.  First, the gross enrolment/participation rate; second the share of students attending public higher education institutions (worldwide, roughly a third

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March 16, 2022 2 Comments

The Rise – and dilemma – of the Global South.

You may all have seen the recent University World News article about HESA’s big new publication, World Higher Education: Institutions, Students, and Funding (written by Jonathan Williams and myself), which is actually going live on March 31st.  For the next few weeks, you’ll be getting some deep dives into the biggest stories that our data has thrown up.  And today I want to talk about the biggest story of them all: the rise of the Global South. (Small methodological note:

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March 15, 2022 No Comments

A Closer Look at Chinese Higher Education

China has been home to the world’s largest higher education system for more than a decade now.  Everyone is aware of China’s rise in research over the last two decades: Lord knows the Times Higher Education drowned us all in “Rise of Asia” (by which they really meant “rise of China”) stories for much of the 2010s.  But have you noticed how little we’ve heard lately?  And I don’t just mean during COVID – the chatter about China was declining

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March 9, 2022 1 Comment

War?

The situation in Ukraine is incredibly bleak.  It’s not simply that Russia, led by a seemingly no-longer rational President, is trying to erase the independence of a neighbour; it is rather that it is trying to roll back 30 years of history and re-establish a pre-1989 balance of forces in Eastern Europe.  Canada, like the rest of the West, is leaving Ukraine to do the physical fighting on its own for the moment, but the prospects for more direct forms

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February 22, 2022 1 Comment

Higher Education Funding in Oil-Dependent Jurisdictions

I was fooling around this weekend with some data on public higher education funding for HESA’s forthcoming publication World Higher Education: Institutions, Students, Finances.  For the most part, the report’s data shows that funding around the world continues to increase, but not always enough to offset student number growth or inflation.  It’s not flashy growth, but it is fairly consistent. There are three significant exceptions: Indonesia, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia, all of them OPEC members.  In these countries have recently

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February 14, 2022 1 Comment

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