By Brendan O’Malley – Managing Editor. In World Blog, Philip G Altbach and Hans de Wit maintain that a revolution is taking place in international student and faculty mobility as a result of political changes in the favoured destination countries.
In Commentary, Ross Anthony similarly points to a likely bifurcation in global educational mobility as the Euro-American security state deters foreign students and China’s sustained growth offers former colonial preserves like Africa new centres of cosmopolitan learning. Ararat Osipian calls for a response from the global academic community to the harassment of two international universities by their respective ‘autocratic’ ruling political regimes – Russia’s European University at St Petersburg and Hungary’s Central European University. Emmanuelle Perez Tisserant and Philippe Dagneaux explain why they are supporting the Marche pour les Sciences en France on 22 April where French scientists will mobilise alongside others around the world to stand up for the values of critical thinking and analysis.
In Features, Yojana Sharma reports on increased collaborations in film studies between Chinese and Western institutions as China sets its sights on creating a ‘Hollywood of the East’, while Ranjit Devraj outlines the Indian government’s plans to digitise academic records to tackle the growing problem of fake qualifications.
Covering the 2017 WorldViews Lecture on Media and Higher Education, Daniel Sekulich reports on Sir Peter Scott’s view that the rise of populism has created a wake-up call for academics that they should speak up more loudly for open societies and recover a sense of social purpose.
You are invited to register for the upcoming topical free webinar on “International Student Mobility Trends: Shifting recruitment priorities and strategies”, to be held this Wednesday 12 April, hosted by University World News in partnership with DrEducation and StudyPortals. More...