By Carol Christ. Michael Kirst and Mitchell Stevens’ recent book, Remaking College: The changing ecology of higher education, asks nothing less than that we reconceive the character of American higher education. Read more...

By Margaret Andrews. Over the past few years it seems you can’t read about higher education without thinking about how ripe it is for disruption. Rising costs, employer dissatisfaction with graduate skills, technology advances and new entrants are making the case for the need for new ways of thinking about and delivering education. Based on some recent developments, business schools may be the first to feel the heat. Read more...

By Karen MacGregor. The returns on higher education are growing globally and they are highest in Africa, Claudia Costin, a senior director at the World Bank, told the African Higher Education Summit. There is an urgent need for Africa to build quality and capacity in universities and to create skills that remain on the continent – and public investment is central. Read more...

By Marcelo Knobel. Higher education has experienced rapidly expanding enrolment worldwide for the past 40 years. This growth will probably continue for the next 20 years, with predictions of 400 million students in 2030, compared with 100 million in 2000. Read more...

By Roger Y Chao Jr. Myanmar has been going through a long process of education reform. But recent tensions linked to its national education law and possibly the upcoming sub-sector laws – including on higher education and private education – signal a lack of engagement from the development partners when it is most needed. Read more...

By Marina Warner. I entered full employment in academia late in life after a long period as an independent writer. What have I learned since I began teaching at the University of Essex more than 10 years ago? That something has gone wrong with the way the universities are being run. Above all, I have learned that not everything that is valuable can be measured. Read more...

By Mary Beth Marklein. A worldwide obsession with higher education rankings kicked off in 2003 when a small team of researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University set out to compare China's research universities with their counterparts around the globe.
The Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings soon followed, thus setting "the cat among the pigeons", says Ellen Hazelkorn, author of the recently released (March) second edition of Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education: The battle for world-class excellence.
Today, no less than 10 major outlets – most of them commercial – are publishing global rankings and another 150 or so rankings focus on a subset of countries, institutions or disciplines. Read more...

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By Jan Petter Myklebust. University leaders say the masters reforms designed to speed up graduation time could reduce the amount of time available to do the masters thesis by a third, to four months. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The government has signalled that it intends to increase the level of research funding, boost career opportunities for women and young researchers, and establish a new quality assurance system. Read more...