The US State Department has granted Harvard University US$2.5 million to transition a university-run public policy programme in Vietnam into the country’s first independent, non-profit, US-affiliated university in Ho Chi Minh City, write Mariel A Klein and Luca F Schroeder for The Harvard Crimson.
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Al-Azhar University, among the Islamic world's most renowned institutions, is losing respect globally as its leadership sides with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, writes Michael Kaplan for International Business Times.
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Who do you think received more cash from Yale’s endowment last year: Yale students, or the private equity fund managers hired to invest the university’s money? It’s not even close, writes Victor Fleischer for The New York Times.
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By Paul Bergen. Science is built on international partnerships. Researchers in industry and academia collaborate with colleagues across borders and across cultures, but they don’t always have to travel very far to collaborate internationally. Sometimes the journey is just across the hall. Read more...
By Abu Kamara. Higher education would take a giant step in the direction of progress if it made addressing the concerns and needs of postgraduate international students part of the main focus of the internationalisation decision-making processes. Read more...
By Craig Whitsed and Wendy Green. Disruptive shifts emanating from globalisation and emergent technologies are forcing a rethink of traditional approaches to teaching and learning and, importantly, PhD supervision in Australia. Read more...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. Policies on the accessibility of skills and knowledge, the location of industry and networks of local companies could boost the impact of higher education on economic development, says a report published last month in the International Journal of Educational Development. Read more...
By Peta Lee. Over the past three decades, there’s been growing awareness of the importance of internationalisation at all levels – and its myriad accompanying factors such as, for instance, programmes and policies, funding and stakeholder involvement, cross-border linkages and collaboration. Read more...
By Peta Lee. The recent release of the study Internationalisation of Higher Education commissioned by the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education, provides penetrating insight into trends, strategies and challenges in internationalisation across 17 countries. Read more...
By Margaret Andrews. In the first instalment of Marketing as strategy (Part one), I mentioned “it all starts with research – some internal, some external, some primary, some secondary, some qualitative and some quantitative”. Read more...
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