The joys and tears of Australian engagement in universal human rights in the United Nations is the topic of the 2017 National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) Lecture to be delivered by The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra on Thursday 16 November. More...
NTEU National Executive recently carried the following motion:
The breakdown of political systems, the rise of nationalism, xenophobia, and populism are hot topics these days, as well as issues that have been prominently discussed at the EAIE Conference in Seville and in the field of international higher education. The UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) celebrated its 60th anniversary with an international conference on ‘New Nationalism and Universities’ in November 2017. Considering the recent controversy at UC Berkeley regarding free speech, the theme of the conference was timely, both locally and globally. More...
The Annual EAIE Conference & Exhibition may be the largest of its kind in Europe, but that also means that it makes a huge impact on the environment. The sheer amount of international higher education professionals flying to a different European country each year to take part in the EAIE Conference emits an extraordinary amount of CO2 into our atmosphere. The EAIE recognises the significant implications of this and is proud to take the first steps toward offsetting our carbon footprint. More...
Speaking with our colleagues in the internationalisation community recently, we were struck by the current debate around the appropriate approach to internationalisation in the context of institutional strategic planning and the implications for the future configuration of support for international students. More...
This month's Journal of Studies in International Education addresses topics from China and Korea to Germany and the UK. Articles focus in on many different aspects of policy making, among other topics, from governmental elite-making higher education policies to how policies construct international students as a marginalised population. The main aim of the research digest bridges research with practice. We hope this blog serves as a teaser to entice you to explore articles of interest in more depth. More...
The breadth and depth of the changes experienced by the higher education sector in recent years is unprecedented. Responding to these changes requires international higher education professionals, including academics, to work together across their institution. To facilitate these collaborations and undertake studies on education issues common to countries across Europe, the European Commission initiated the Eurydice Network. Their recent research report, and related brief, summarised in this post, provide an important insight on what it means to be an academic staff member in Europe. More...
The web-based US News publication has just released data that looks at excellence from another angle by comparing the financial resources of universities, measured by spending per student on teaching-related activities, with their overall scores. The results are considered a measure of operating efficiency. Only those institutions in the top half of the ‘America’s Best Colleges’ rankings are ranked. More...
The 14th edition of the Financial Times European Business School rankings, which are restricted to postgraduate programmes, has just been published. The newspaper has also published top twenty rankings for Asia/Australia and the Americas. The general European rankings are a combination of rankings of MBA, Executive MBA, Masters in Management (MiM), and customised and open non-degree executive courses. More...
The Ministry of Higher Education in Malaysia has published the latest edition of the Rating for Higher Education Institutions in Malaysia (SETARA). These measure the quality of teaching and learning at level six (undergraduate) in the Malaysian Qualifications Framework. More...
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