Governance

While the past four decades of academic personnel system reforms have changed the relationship between faculty and their institutions and boosted the competitiveness of China’s higher education in the international arena, further reforms or change will be required.

From a common Soviet governance approach four different university governance models emerged in former Soviet states after 1991. The models, while interesting in their evolution, might best be considered in light of the operating contexts.

The 2023 Nobel cohort in the sciences shows little change from recent years, skewed towards Western university-affiliated researchers, dominated by the United States.

Universities in Latin America have long benefited from the explicit juridical protection of their autonomy.