Should global universities not follow global principles of educational equality?

By Brendan O'Malley – Managing Editor. In Commentary, Stuart Tannock asks why concern with educational equality and justice across borders frequently goes missing in discussions of international higher education. Margaret Andrews shares her thoughts on how individuals, management programmes and universities might prepare for the future world of work. Ina Ganguli shows in her analysis of historic publication data that a gender publication gap existed in the USSR on a par or even larger than in the United States, despite the importance placed on gender equality in science in the former Soviet Union. And Sandiso Bazana proposes that ‘organisational development’ change initiatives be employed to help universities in South Africa to embrace and ‘do’ transformation.
   In our World Blog this week, Hans de Wit and Elspeth Jones argue that until an inclusive approach to internationalisation is incorporated into the experience of all students, we run the risk of perpetuating the kind of elitism that nationalists decry.
   In Features, Yojana Sharma examines China’s motives in setting up ‘Western-style’ liberal arts degrees. María Elena Hurtado looks at some of the challenges experienced by the Ford Foundation’s Latin American postgraduate fellows in bringing change to their communities. And Ramadhan Rajab reports on the relaunch of the faculty of journalism and communication at the Somali National University, which will provide training for journalists working in a politically sensitive context.
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