Turkey’s ‘descent into ignorance’ as educators are silenced

By Karen MacGregor. In Commentary, Eda Erdener explains why Turkey’s government has dismissed more than 4,000 academics, tells the chilling story of education’s ‘reconstruction’ and the country’s ‘descent into ignorance’, and argues that it must be possible to be both against last year’s coup attempt and critical of government.
Gabriel Hawawini peers into the future of the outward internationalisation of higher education, Roger Chao Jr calls for a mutual recognition agreement for teaching services to improve the quality and status of the teaching profession across the ASEAN region, and Tom Abeles argues that new ways of learning could help reduce the costs of higher education, and increase its availability and access.
In World Blog, Ming Cheng urges academics to reclaim educational quality from managerialism by stressing the moral basis of teaching and learning. In Student View, Casey O’Brien calls on American higher education to support students resisting the actions of President Donald Trump, and for more than 28 universities to become ‘sanctuary campuses’ that protect undocumented members of their communities.
In Features, Lucy Haire looks at how British universities are taking their inventions to market – there are now 2,000 university ‘spin-outs’ – Brennan Weiss reports on a University of the Philippines online public service television network that is helping to combat the spread of fake news, and Wagdy Sawahel finds that North African universities are not adequately preparing students for study abroad. Read more...