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HH
Published: Oct 04, 2024
The expansion of higher education systems in East Asia is largely coming to an end, and postmass education is becoming a reality. This transition involves a set of challenges that will require education policies, universities, and other relevant agents to adapt.
AY
Published: Oct 04, 2024
Facing an ongoing demographic decline, Japan’s higher education is now trying to develop new ecosystems for science, technology, innovation, and human resource development.
QZ
Published: Oct 04, 2024
This article argues that there are currently gaps existing between higher education research and reality. Such a segregation indicates a kind of misalignment and disjuncture between the two realms, and calls for reimagining and transforming the field of higher education research.
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MK
Published: Oct 04, 2024
Despite collectively “knowing” more than ever about higher education, in practical terms, higher education is in crisis in much of the world. Increased collaboration is required in order to overcome the collective inability of the field to translate research findings into policy.
BS
Published: Oct 04, 2024
Lebanese universities have shown remarkable resilience, engaging in partnerships and programs that support their own institutional survival and developing initiatives to address economic challenges. Such resilience, however, should not be taken for granted.
MM
Published: Oct 04, 2024
This article provides insights into trends of student host destinations, the push and pull factors that drive students to study abroad, and the valuable role of comparable host data to identify patterns over time.
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HW
Published: Oct 04, 2024
This essay looks back and notices that things have not changed substantially and places the debate in the current context of multiple crises. It advocates the need for an active personalized internationalization with emphasis on our own social responsibility.
FL
Published: Oct 04, 2024
This article provides an overview of the initial steps and current developments in affirmative actions in Brazilian higher education, pointing to some of the main challenges and potential outcomes of democratizing higher education in a country with significant social asymmetries.
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BP
Published: Oct 04, 2024
In India, the affirmative action policy is commonly known as the reservation policy, which applies to legislature, education, and employment.
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RP
Published: Oct 04, 2024
This paper analyzes the different perspectives around race-based admission policies in South African universities and the outcomes of their implementation.
AS
Published: Oct 04, 2024
France focuses on students’ socioeconomic backgrounds to ensure equal opportunity. While the system remains unequal and results in social reproduction, there is a national consensus that efforts must be exerted to broaden access and improve the success of marginalized students.
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AS
Published: Oct 04, 2024
After Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023), people are likely to think race is scrubbed from college admissions processes. We offer two sources of hope outlining the path forward for educational leaders, parents, and students.
DM
Published: Oct 04, 2024
The roots of today’s unequal global science communication system trace back to the aftermath of World War II. US government funding for basic research generated a flood of scientific papers, opening up opportunities for commercial publishers.
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TM
Published: Oct 04, 2024
Higher education has resurfaced as a key pillar for delivering the SDGs and tackling global challenges; however, international support to higher education systems and students in low- and lower middle-income countries remains misunderstood and poorly documented.
CM
Published: Oct 04, 2024
Disruption seems to be the new name of the game in higher education. As everything has to be “disruptive” in order to be valuable, we risk losing sight of the importance of traditional incremental innovation, especially in macrouniversities.
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TD
Published: Oct 04, 2024
The 2023 Nobel cohort in the sciences shows little change from recent years, skewed towards Western university-affiliated researchers, dominated by the United States.
EH
Published: Apr 06, 2024
EU countries face a polarized labor market as massification of higher ed and perceptions of vocational ed as inferior drive imbalances. Efforts are underway to better integrate VET and applied research into the broader tertiary education system.
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CM
Published: Jan 15, 2024
Vocational education is often seen as a solution to youth unemployment, yet also problematic itself. Donor interventions in this space are based on flawed assumptions and show little evidence of success in addressing the underlying economic issues.
