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That Was the Quarter that Was – Winter 2026

Morning, all. It being the first of April, it’s time for a quick look at the past three months of higher education stories from around the world. Let’s take a brief look at the issues that preoccupied the sector worldwide. The most important story of the last few months, obviously, is happening in Iran and the Persian Gulf. The year began with the regime massacring thousands of citizens, including hundreds of students on the night of January 8/9. After 40

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April 1, 2026 No Comments

Global Higher Education’s Post-COVID Future (3) – New Pedagogies, New Credentials

On Monday, I described some of the big changes of the past 18 months; yesterday I discussed the first big future trend (“Funding Challenges Forever”), and today I want to talk about the second, which I call “New Pedagogies and New Credentials”. The experience of learning online during COVID has divided both learners and instructors.  A clear majority have a healthy dislike for it, and a few loath it.  But a significant minority enjoyed the experiment.  For students who never

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September 29, 2021 1 Comment

‘til September

So, it’s that time of year when I say farewell to faithful readers for a few months.  This is the last blog of the academic year.  Normal service will resume August 30th. Today also marks the end of this blog’s tenth year.  Which, you know, is a bit terrifying.  Because that means this blog is probably over a million words old.  I’m sure my mother would have preferred I spent all that time on a doctorate.  (You should think about

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June 17, 2021 2 Comments

Examining Learning Experiences During COVID

Written in collaboration with Michael Sullivan Good morning, all.  Today’s blog is a collaboration with my colleague Michael Sullivan at the Strategic Counsel (with whom we at HESA Towers have been doing some joint projects over the past year or so) and it’s about the results of a new recently completed survey, which looks at students’ learning experiences since the start of this academic year.  It’s an interesting half-full half-empty story, but with some very important future implications. Figure 1

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January 28, 2021 1 Comment

The Future of Internationalization

Last week, I was part of a very interesting webinar put on by ICEF involving myself, Allan Goodman of the Institute of International Education (IIE), and the ex-head of Universities UK, Vivienne Stern. The webinar covered the future of higher education internationalization.  I am not quite sure when it will be posted, but prepping for it made me think about a few of the big new directions in which internationalization is heading. I spoke to three specific trends that may dominate

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December 7, 2020 No Comments

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