By Jane Marshall. Nigerian Ambassador to UNESCO Mariam Y Katagum, a member of the governing board of the Commonwealth of Learning, answers questions on the opportunities and challenges facing the provision of MOOCs – massive open online courses – in Africa. Read more...
By Jane Marshall. Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, have been expanding rapidly throughout the world since the ‘Year of the MOOC’ in 2012, offering higher education, often free, to millions of learners – especially in developed countries with wide access to the right technology and resources. Read more...
By Hanneke Teekens. For more than a week the international news has been dominated by the vote in Britain to leave the European Union. It was a close call. Not only was the result unexpected, it has created a deeply divided country. Read more...
By Samantha Bernstein and Adrianna Kezar. The State College of Florida recently scrapped tenure for incoming faculty. New professors at this public university will be hired on the basis of annual contracts that the college can decline to renew at any time. Read more...
By Paul Boyle. Research in the United Kingdom is facing a time of great change, challenge and opportunity. Read more...
By Mary M Kritz. The world’s numbers of international tertiary students reached 4.3 million in 2011-12, up from 1.3 million in 1990. In 2016 the United States alone had 1.2 million international students or almost as many as the entire world did in 1990. Read more...
By Lucy Leske. Seven years after UNESCO published Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an academic revolution, the paradigm shift the report cited toward ‘massification’ and global competition appears to be accelerating. Universities of all types and sizes are unremittingly internationalising, both catalysing and responding to global changes in higher education. Read more...
By Philip G Altbach, Georgiana Mihut and Jamil Salmi. The latest accoutrement of world-class universities, or those aspiring to world-class status, is an international advisory council, or IAC. Read more...
By Sharon Dell. At the age of 12, Malawi-born Mphangera Kamanga knew she wanted to go to university to study agriculture so she could help smallholder farmers to improve their yields. Read more...
By Christabel Ligami. The French Development Agency, or AFD, has given a US$30 million concessional credit line to commercial banks in Kenya to finance new and ongoing university infrastructure investment initiatives in strategic faculties. Read more...
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