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June 19, 2019
News Items from the Week of May 17, 2019
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Why the future is bright for internationalisation | [T]he work of internationalisation is not self-reflexive. We do not internationalise for its own sake. We engage in cross-national research and teaching partnerships, facilitate global learning at home and support student and faculty mobility in order to fulfil higher education’s fundamental purpose, the production and exchange of new knowledg...
News Items from the Week of May 10, 2019
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Universities told to tackle ethnic outcomes disparities | Universities in the United Kingdom must demonstrate their commitment to university-wide change as they seek to eliminate the student attainment gap for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) students in UK higher education, a new report by Universities UK and the National Union of Students (NUS) says.
June 14, 2019
News Items from the Week of May 3, 2019
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Cambodia’s failing education system | Even though higher education remains far beyond the reach of most rural and female youth, the gross enrolment rate in tertiary education among youths aged between 18 and 22 has improved significantly over the last 10 years from 4.9 to 20 percent, including among the poorest households (from 0.2 to 2.6 percent) and women (3.3 to 17.4 percent).
May 3, 2019
News Items from the Week of April 26, 2019
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Marketisation could undermine higher education innovation | The ‘business model’ of university governance, the product of what one might call the English experiment in higher education policy-making, because it does not apply or certainly applies with much less force in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, seems in danger of producing an academic climate which represses rather than stimulates c...
April 19, 2019
News Items from the Week of April 19, 2019
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Here’s why millennials have to fight harder than their parents did to stay in the middle class | Today, just 60% of millennials (those born between 1983 and 2002) are considered middle-class, compared to 70% of baby boomers (those born between 1943 and 1964) when they were in their twenties, according to the report, “Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class.” Worldwide, the share of households...
April 15, 2019
Read | Chapter 4 | Arcane Cage
Arcane Cage is my first foray into fiction after a lifetime of nonfiction writing–but I cheated a little.
The fantasy story is told from the perspective of a historian who must rely on documents and knowledge of the past. The main character, Siddrah, was sent by the High Council to investigate mysterious troubles at a distant outpost in a sprawling empire settled by a magical civilization (the “Provenance”). Her record of events and personal journal offer much...
Read for Free | Chapter 4 | Arcane Cage
Arcane Cage is my first foray into fiction after a lifetime of nonfiction writing–but I cheated a little.
The fantasy story is told from the perspective of a historian who must rely on documents and knowledge of the past. The main character, Siddrah, was sent by the High Council to investigate mysterious troubles at a distant outpost in a sprawling empire settled by a magical civilization (the “Provenance”). Her record of events and personal journal offer much...
April 12, 2019
News Items from the Week of April 12, 2019
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An intersectional approach to the future of learning | In sociology, the term ‘intersectionality’ asks us to consider the overlapping nature of multiple identities and how those identities interlock to make systems of power. Higher education must go beyond the frame of 18- to 22-year-olds to consider a lifetime view of learning that helps illuminate powerful intersections of learning, life and...
April 10, 2019
News Items from the Week of April 5, 2019
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Maximising the civic mission of universities in Wales | According to a 2018 survey by the Civic University Commission, 58% of respondents said they were “proud” of their universities. However, 35% were unable to name a single thing their local university had done to engage the local community and 30% of lower socio-economic respondents had never visited a local campus.
April 2, 2019
News Items from the Week of March 29, 2019
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One last chance to save a bastion of higher education | [T]wo things in particular are hurting the University of Juba and the public tertiary education institutions most – the fixed salaries and tuition fees, both of which have been declining in real value due to depreciation of the national currency against the dollar. The cost of operating the university as well as consumer prices have increa...
