Will rising nationalism have an impact on international recruitment plans?

By Brendan O’Malley – Managing Editor. In Commentary, Marguerite Dennis suggests some steps international enrolment managers and deans at universities might take to prepare for a world that may increasingly be defined by borders and nationalism. Futao Huang looks at the demographics of international faculty in Japan and contends that Japanese institutions and the government need to do more to open the academic market to international faculty. Rahul Choudaha encourages business schools to accelerate global engagement strategies based on collaboration and innovation, and to produce graduates who are capable of making organisations adaptable to change. And Roman Abramov, Ivan Gruzdev and Evgeniy Terentev discuss the tensions arising from Russia’s National Research University Higher School of Economics being a prominent global player while embedded in the Russian academic and administrative environment.
In World Blog, Robert Coelen argues that internationalisation should ideally start at school as it is part of core 21st century skills that need to be embedded from an early age.
In our quarterly series on Academic Corruption, published by University World News in partnership with the Council for Higher Education Accreditation/CHEA International Quality Group, Brendan O’Malley reports on a study being conducted into what quality assurance and accreditation bodies are doing to tackle academic corruption around the world.   
Finally, in Features, Sharon Dell reports on a bid by the Southern African Regional Universities Association to achieve greater alignment with SADC – the Southern African Development Community – as a way of ensuring that universities play a more active role in the implementation of regional development strategies, while Laeed Zaghlami gives an upbeat account of what Algerian universities are doing to become more innovative. More...