By Michael D Kennedy. When the eminent French sociologist Michel Wieviorka joined our meeting of the Next Left in Santiago last month, he rearticulated an enduring concern: how can we extend the engagement between intellectuals and politicians, between collective actions and institutional expressions, between the instrumentalities of politics and the complexities academics favour? Read more...

By Que Anh Dang. For many years education researchers have become familiarised with conferences on the educational philosophies of eminent thinkers, such as Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, John Dewey, Susan Isaacs, Jurgen Habermas, etc.
Recently the Romanian Ministry of National Education organised the second research conference on the Bologna process’ ‘philosophy’, or rather its search for a philosophy. So far the Bologna process has been a political process whose philosophical underpinnings have not been clear.
Undoubtedly, Bologna has achieved significant success in its plans for an unprecedented higher education reform on a regional scale. Beginning in 1999 with an initial 29 signatories, this pan-European project has quickly expanded to 47 countries and resulted in the establishment of the European Higher Education Area, or EHEA, in 2010. Read more...

By Jenny J Lee. The US is unquestionably the global leader when it comes to international higher education. The Institute of International Education recently reported another growth year for international students in US colleges and universities, leading the world in attracting cross-border students. Read more...

By Gavin Newman. Traditionally, universities deliver an open day with faculty heads and staff attending to deliver a wide range of content over the course of a day. However, in an increasingly competitive market, many British universities are facing a growing challenge to attract prospective students while minimising costs. Read more...

By Stephen Parker. These reforms are unfair to students and poorly designed policy. If they go through, Australia is sleepwalking towards the privatisation of its universities. And ironically they will be the death knell of our peak group, Universities Australia, which could not survive them for long. Read more...

By Roger King. The notion of public-private partnerships is becoming less easy to define in higher education. What people have long regarded as a public body – universities, for example – turns out to be anything but. Read more...

By Lucy Hodges. Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice once described Belarus as Europe’s “last true dictatorship”. Now, almost 10 years later, the country remains unashamedly authoritarian. Read more...

By Makki Marseilles. Free state higher education is under threat as a result of action taken by Education Secretary Andreas Loverdos who unexpectedly tabled an amendment to the research and development bill currently being debated in the Greek Parliament. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. In a new report, Crossing Borders – Obstacles and incentives to researcher mobility, Nordforsk describes recent trends and rates of mobility among Nordic researchers compared with the rest of the EU and includes a survey of mobility patterns from 1,900 CVs collected from Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish sources. Read more...