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A Global Observatory for Higher Education Change: What We’re Learning

As you know, this show is dedicated to a global perspective on higher education; one that tries to encompass the entire globe. But covering the entire planet is difficult. There are a lot of countries out there, and there are very few trends which are truly universal. That means you need to track lots of developments and policies that are overlapping, complicated and contradictory — and that’s hard! I know — I’ve been writing our World Higher Education, Year in Review publication (out on

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November 20, 2025 No Comments

Letter from China

A quick reminder before we get to our regularly scheduled programming: Last week, I told you about the National Defence Research Roundtable HESA is hosting on December 15 in Ottawa. Some of you missed the expression of interest window, so we’re reopening the form until 12pm on Thursday. You can expect to hear from us about registration later this week.  I just spent the last week visiting China. It’s been a trip in more ways than one. My first couple

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November 19, 2025 No Comments

The Fifteen: November 14, 2025

A quick reminder before we get to our regularly scheduled programming: On Wednesday, I told you about the National Defence Research Roundtable HESA is proposing to host on December 15 in Ottawa. We’ll be closing the expression of interest form at 3pm EST today. Interested in joining us? Click here and let us know. Welcome to The Fifteen, a global round-up of the stories animating higher education institutions and systems around the globe. Let’s get to it. 1. In Greece, the

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November 14, 2025 No Comments

Inside the Global Private Higher Education Sector with Dan Levy

If you spend any time around higher education in multiple countries, you’ll know two things. The first is that public higher education tends to look pretty similar from one country to another. And second, the status of private higher education varies enormously. How big the sector is, the ownership forms, the missions, the delivery modes, can all vary quite significantly. Private higher education occupies both the top and the bottom of the global prestige hierarchy. At the one end, you’ve

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November 13, 2025 No Comments

Does England’s Newest Higher Education White Paper Actually Change Anything?

Last year, the Labour Party in the United Kingdom faced a dilemma. They needed to get elected, and to do that, they needed people to vote for them. Nothing wrong with that, except in higher education the UK faces a dilemma. Everyone knows the system’s in shambles. Everyone knows it will require painful choices to fix. But nobody wants to pay for it. It’s hard to cut that kind of Gordian knot without annoying people, and that interfered with the

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November 6, 2025 No Comments

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