BRICS university league starts to form, but needs true collaboration

By Maxim Khomyakov. Internationalisation – together with massification, globalisation and, one should also add, innovation – is key for understanding contemporary academia. Science and scholarship, of course, were always international: one can recall Plato learning in India or the scholars of the early modern period somehow united across Europe in the international Republic of Letters. However, academia has never previously known the truly global circulation of minds (talent and resources) that we experience nowadays. Read more...