By Brendan O’Malley. Jamil Salmi, a Moroccan education economist, is well known in the higher education world as a global tertiary education expert. In the past 24 years he has provided policy advice to governments and university leaders in more than 90 countries in all parts of the world. Read more...
By Brendan O’Malley. The parliamentary Education Committee has launched an inquiry into the impact of Brexit on higher education. Read more...
By Brendan O’Malley. The government has published details of how university teaching will be assessed – with ratings of gold, silver and bronze awarded – in the second year of trials of its Teaching Excellence Framework, or TEF, for universities in England. Read more...
By Brendan O’Malley – Managing Editor. In a Special Report on the International Seminar on Innovation in Higher Education hosted by CETYS University in Mexico, Yojana Sharma reports that delegates looked at how universities could respond more innovatively to a future in which change is the one certainty. Focusing on Latin America, Yojana Sharma reports on Andrés Oppenheimer’s contention that the region’s universities could learn a lot from Asia about innovation and preparing students for jobs in a growing knowledge economy, and she spoke to Arturo Cherbowski Lask about Latin American universities’ ability to adapt to a changing world.
In a series on Transformative Leadership in which University World News is partnering with The MasterCard Foundation, Brendan O'Malley asks renowned tertiary education expert Jamil Salmi how universities can provide and promote ethical leadership that is transformative.
In Commentary, Anne Corbett says UK universities will be hoping to retain international confidence over the coming months but a hard government line on ‘taking back control’ post-Brexit could result in the loss of many allies. Bruno Morche says Brazil’s Science Without Borders fellowship programme has been an important step towards internationalisation but aspects of the programme require attention to maximise impact. And François Therin unpacks a new French government report which outlines a much-needed strategy for internationalisation of higher education institutions.
In World Blog, Nita Temmerman proposes that site visits be part of the university accreditation process as they more accurately confirm compliance than those that rely on written documentation alone.
In Features, Mary Beth Marklein highlights the positive impact of the Carnegie Africa Diaspora Fellowship Program – which taps the African diaspora in North America as a way to reverse the effects of brain drain – and its consequent plans for expansion.
On Tuesday 4 October University World News in partnership with DrEducation will host their second international free webinar, entitled 'Embracing Technology for Global Engagement: A leadership challenge and opportunity'. You are invited to register. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. A model to help makes sense of the past, present, and future of our non-faculty educator careers. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. I’m all about innovation. Experimentation. Research and Development. What excites me is non-incremental change. The status quo has never held much interest. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Can a minor character in a terrific novel spark a discussion of our worst higher ed co-workers. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. 4 meeting recommendations derived from synchronous online education. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. A good book from George H.W. Bush's White House Director of Economic Policy. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. The instructional design team at Dartmouth recently made the switch to Slack, and it’s definitely improved our team communications. Read more...
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