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Category: Worldwide PSE

Global Higher Education’s Post-COVID Future (2) – Funding Challenges Forever

Yesterday, I described some of the big changes of the past 18 months; today I will talk a little bit about the first of the three big trends that we need to watch for over the next few years.  This one I call “Funding Challenges Forever”. Around the world, COVID has had two distinct financial impacts on institutions.  In countries where the vast majority of funding came from governments (mainly, but not exclusively, Europe), the COVID shut-down had very little

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September 28, 2021 1 Comment

Global Higher Education’s Post-COVID Future (1)

Back in July, I was kindly invited to a conference sponsored by the Perspektywy Foundation in Warsaw to give a talk about the future of global higher education after COVID.  Over this week, I want to recap that talk and provide some analysis about the main policy trends affecting higher education of the next few years.  Not all these trends will affect countries equally (for reasons that will become apparent) but I think they probably capture the biggest pieces of

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September 27, 2021 1 Comment

Education at a Glance 2021

On Thursday, the OECD released its annual Education at a Glance report.  I always do a blog post about these, even though, let’s face it, very little changes annually.  But I have zero desire to talk about this godforsaken election anymore, so this seems like a welcome opportunity to change the subject a bit. Let’s start with Figure 1, tertiary attainment rates, where Canada always performs well.  This shows Canada as having one of the highest tertiary attainment rates in

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September 20, 2021 No Comments

A Reading List

It’s the next-to-last blog of the academic year and that means it’s time for a quick review of books to read over the summer.  It’s a bit shorter than usual because I’ve been writing a fair bit about books these last few months, but we’ll give it a whirl. One book all higher education afficionados should read is The Low-Density University byEdward Maloney and Joshua Kim.  Not because it is particularly good or relevant, but because it perfectly captures the Spring of 2020 and

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June 16, 2021 No Comments

A Notable Set of Higher Education Reforms

Let’s say you live in one of those former socialist countries with a really old-fashioned higher education system.  Your universities are insular because they have almost no contact with the private sector.  Internally, they are managed by an academic oligarchy.  Externally, they report directly to a government– no Board of Governors, just a straight reporting relationship between the rector and a government minister.  And I don’t just mean an accountability relationship here – I mean the rector and every single

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June 2, 2021 1 Comment

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