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Bahrain redux

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It is hard to believe Bahrain sought to become a global education hub as recently as 2006 & 2007. See, for example, this Observatory on Borderless Higher Education report released in January 2007: A fifth transnational hub for the Gulf: Bahrain announces plans to create a ‘Higher Education City’ Welcome to Bahrain, circa December 2011: [...]

Great expectations UK-style: foreign students = export earnings (in an era of austerity)

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Source: Universities UK (2011) Driving Economic Growth, London: Universities UK, 1 December; also see Chester, J., and Luzajic, J. (2011) ‘Time to recognise that universities have a central role in UK growth strategy,’ The Guardian, 1 December.

Tertiary Education: A Global Report

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Source: EdStats, Education Advisory Service, World Bank. Note: our thanks to Emilio Porta of the World Bank for permission to post these slides on GlobalHigherEd.

Austerity budgets, fiscal squeezes, and territorial obligations: the end of an era?

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These two graphics (both released in the last two days) capture broad-based aspects of the fiscal squeeze confronting public higher education in the United States. Source: Moody’s (2011) Weekly Credit Outlook, 31 October, p. 43. Source: ‘Chart: One Year of Prison Costs More Than One Year at Princeton,’ The Atlantic, 1 November 2011. A direct [...]

Unpacking the ‘flexibility’ mantra in US higher education

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‘Flexibility’ is genuinely slippery concept, one that provides some sense of coherence with vagueness. It is also a concept that is a resource to be used in the pursuit of power. I’m most familiar with the concept of flexibility in relationship to the changing nature of production systems. There has been a long debate in [...]

Is higher education fit for the global urban era?

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Our era of ‘global urbanization’ — one where the majority of the world’s population now lives in ‘urban’ areas – raises some interesting opportunities and challenges for higher education systems and institutions. This issue came to mind today when Roger Keil (Professor and Director, The City Institute at York University) tweeted a link to this [...]

On being seduced by The World University Rankings (2011-12)

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Well, it’s ranking season again, and the Times Higher Education/Thomson Reuters World University Rankings (2011-2012) has just been released. The outcome is available here, and a screen grab of the Top 25 universities is available to the right. Link here for a pre-programmed Google News search for stories about the topic, and link here for [...]

Common curriculum guidelines for Yale-NUS College (via Word Cloud)

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Source: Common Curriculum Outline for Yale-NUS College (2 September 2011) via Wordle.

‘Hotspots’ and international scientific collaboration

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The OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2011: Innovation and Growth in Knowledge Economies report was released on 20 September.  While I’ve only seen the summary (which is the source for the first three images below) and an informative entry (‘A Changing Landscape: University hotspots for science and technology‘) in the OECD’s Education Today weblog, [...]

Visualizing the uneven geographies of knowledge production and circulation

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As noted in a previous entry (‘Visualizing the globalization of higher education and research’), we’ve been keen to both develop and promote high quality visualizations associated with the globalization of higher education and research. On this note, the wonderful Floating Sheep collective recently informed me about some new graphics that will be published in: Graham, M., [...]