IMCIC 2011

IMCIC 2011: "Based on Eli Cohen’s seminal paper1, Informing Science has evolved into an important and useful trans-discipline. T. Grandon Gill2 applied this emerging trans-discipline in the context of a detailed critical analysis of the academic activities in Business Schools, and made very important suggestions for the design (or re-design) of this academic field. Gill’s analysis and design recommendation are also important for other academic fields especially those related to professional activities like Engineering, Medicine, Scientific Consulting, problem oriented research, action research, etc. Cohen’s and Gill’s seminal works inspired the organization of the International Symposium on Academic Informing Science and Engineering: AISE 2011."

Who Are the Undergraduates? - Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Who Are the Undergraduates? - Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Roughly 22 million undergraduates attended college at some point in 2007-8, and the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study from that year provides a snapshot of where students are coming from and how they pursue their educations. More than a third of all undergraduates attend part-time, and most are not affluent. That's reflected in where students go to college—more than twice as many undergraduates attend the University of Phoenix's online campus as go to an Ivy League college."

English and foreign students 'won't be used as cash cows' - Scotsman.com News

English and foreign students 'won't be used as cash cows' - Scotsman.com News: "THE Scottish Government has insisted it has no plans to use English and overseas students' fees to fund higher education north of the Border.
However, calls were growing last night for the SNP administration to come up with a sustainable plan after university chiefs said the current arrangement was only sustainable for a year.

The recent budget announced by the Scottish Government reveaADVERTISEMENT

led the number of fully funded undergraduate places is being cut."

Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries - Academic and Professional Books - Cambridge University Press

Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries - Academic and Professional Books - Cambridge University Press: "The advance of economic globalization has led many academics, policy-makers, and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and capital flows, developing nations that cut public services are risking detrimental effects to the populace. Conventional wisdom suggests that it is the poorer members of these societies who stand to lose the most from these pressures on welfare protections, but this new study argues for a more complex conceptualization of the subject. Nita Rudra demonstrates how and why domestic institutions in developing nations have historically ignored the social needs of the poor; globalization neither takes away nor advances what never existed in the first place. It has been the lower- and upper-middle classes who have benefited the most from welfare systems and, consequently, it is they who are most vulnerable to globalization's race to the bottom."

re: Education: Globalization, Higher Ed and Academic Integrity (Randy Black, US) | WAIS

re: Education: Globalization, Higher Ed and Academic Integrity (Randy Black, US) | WAIS: "Did we not discuss the practice of running submitted term papers, etc. via the various online and offline PC apps that look for common phrases, copied material and thoughts, and outright plagiarism? I recall mentioning that all such papers submitted at local universities must be submitted electronically and thus are automatically scanned for such crimes/misdemeanors as plagiarism on the front end of the review/grading process."

University World News - AFRICA: What happened to the Pan-African University?

University World News - AFRICA: What happened to the Pan-African University?: "Plans for a university that will stretch across Africa and be a 'flagship institution of higher education' will go ahead, despite political problems with two of its five planned centres, African Union commissioner and steward of the project, Jean-Pierre Ezin, has insisted."

Mixed success for developing world science, says UNESCO - SciDev.Net

Mixed success for developing world science, says UNESCO - SciDev.Net: "Developing countries more than doubled their output of scientific publications between 2002 and 2008, but their share of patent applications remained extremely low, according to the latest UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) science report.

The developing world's share of science publications rose from a fifth to nearly a third during this time, according to the 'UNESCO Science Report 2010: Current Status of Science around the World'."

The university, diversity and autonomy

University World News - GLOBAL: The university, diversity and autonomy: "Comparing these models can help clarify the potential future choices universities must make in the face of a problem that commonly confronts them - how to affirm the university's valuable social role, while resisting two recurrent threats to its autonomy: 'the state as social engineer' and 'the student as customer',' Graham told University World News."

Chronicle of Higher Education Audio: Tech Therapy - Download free podcast episodes by Tech Therapy on iTunes.

Chronicle of Higher Education Audio: Tech Therapy - Download free podcast episodes by Tech Therapy on iTunes.: "Scott Carlson, a Chronicle reporter, and Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant who works with colleges, talk about the headaches, anxieties, and general problems you might be having with technology on your college campus. File sharing, security, dealing with vendors, figuring out how to talk to your president, or how to talk to your CIO -- it's all game for a therapy session. The podcast is interactive. Scott and Warren will take your questions at techtherapy@chronicle.com. Look for new installments every other Thursday."

United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace

United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace: "UNU-ISP takes an innovative, integrated approach to sustainability — one that encompasses global change, development, peace and security. The Institute bridges these cross-cutting issues through research, educational, and collaborative initiatives with the aim of solving current problems and anticipating future challenges."

UK science society network to go global - SciDev.Net

UK science society network to go global - SciDev.Net: "The Learned Societies for Development (LSfD) network was launched last month (15 October) under the auspices of the UK National Commission for UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).

Many scientific societies — networks of researchers in a specific field — carry out capacity building work such as mentoring and exchange schemes, providing equipment and advice, running training courses and providing free access to publications.

At a meeting in June last year, UK societies agreed that their strength lay in large networks, which could nurture researchers in developing countries at a grassroots level and connect them directly to global networks they may have been isolated from before."

OECD ministers debate education for new skills

University World News - GLOBAL: OECD ministers debate education for new skills: "As background to the talks, the OECD said the recession had forced most of its member governments to cut spending, including on education. Cuts had fallen mainly on higher education, but vocational education and training was another vulnerable sector.

A dramatic consequence was the sharp deterioration of the labour market, especially for the young - in the OECD area there were nearly 15 million young people unemployed, a rise of six percentage points to almost 19% in the two years to end-2009.

Meanwhile, the nature of skills needed for jobs was changing rapidly, with 'jobs that have not yet been created, using technologies that have not yet been invented, to solve problems that cannot be foreseen', said the OECD."

Internationalisation: past, present, future

University World News - GLOBAL: Internationalisation: past, present, future: "The IAU's 3rd Global Survey Report, Internationalisation of Higher Education: Global trends, regional perspectives, is based on the analysis of survey responses from 745 institutions in 115 countries from all regions of the world, as well as a number of national university associations.

It represents the most geographically comprehensive collection and analysis of data on the internationalisation of higher education ever undertaken. Previous editions of the Global Survey were published in 2003 and 2005."

Alarming fall in Chinese student numbers

University World News - AUSTRALIA: Alarming fall in Chinese student numbers: "For the first time in more than 14 years, an Australian minister for tertiary education has gone to China to try to head off a potentially disastrous collapse in the number of young Chinese studying in Australia.

Senator Chris Evans, a former immigration minister in the previous Labor government, headed a four-day, high-level university delegation to China last week. It was Evans' first international visit as Tertiary Education Minister and was, he said, intended 'to deepen educational cooperation between Australia and China and explore new opportunities for collaboration between universities in both countries'.

But the trip also signified that the cries of alarm emerging from Australia's universities about the prospect of a catastrophic fall in enrolments of Chinese students had begun to influence government decisions."

Stanford Food Summit encourages researchers to collaborate across disciplines - Office of Communications & Public Affairs - Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford Food Summit encourages researchers to collaborate across disciplines - Office of Communications & Public Affairs - Stanford University School of Medicine: "More than 350 members of the campus community attended the inaugural Stanford Food Summit Nov. 3 for a day of cross-disciplinary intellectual ferment about food-related problems.

Researchers from all seven Stanford schools gave presentations describing the top food questions in their fields and suggesting ways the university's affiliates could collaborate to address them. Two research-development workshops gave all participants the opportunity to brainstorm how to turn their ideas into concrete research proposals."

Global Education & Liberal Education

Liberal Education | Summer 2010 | Global Education & Liberal Education: "American students will almost certainly be involved in rising levels of global interaction—often in their work, at least sometimes in their leisure, and always in their citizenship. Moreover, expanding global connections, combined with obvious shifts in the global balance of power, make it clear that China, India, Brazil, and other regions, in addition to Europe, will strongly shape our national future. Contemporary American students will have to develop a greater awareness of diverse parts of the globe than was expected of their counterparts of a generation ago, and they will probably have to adjust to some modifications to the idea of the United States as the sole superpower.

At the same time, many American students—amid great variety—are rather parochial in their experience and education, which creates a very real gap between the world taking shape around them and their own intellectual comfort zone."

What role for higher education in development? - SciDev.Net

What role for higher education in development? - SciDev.Net: "Anyone seeking to tackle the problems facing the developing world must remember two simple facts of life. First, none of these problems — from food shortages and the spread of disease, to achieving sustainable economic growth — can be addressed without the use of science and technology.

Second, harnessing science for development depends on the skills of a country's people. And that in turn requires a robust and effective higher education system — the only mechanism that can produce and sustain these skills."

China extends brain drain campaign to young scientists - SciDev.Net

China extends brain drain campaign to young scientists - SciDev.Net: "[BEIJING] China is set to expand its ambitious scheme to attract the cream of the scientific diaspora back to the country so it includes young scientists as well.

Li Zhiyong, vice-minister of the Organisation Department of the Central Committee, told a conference of the High-level Overseas Talents and National Development Strategy in Beijing last month (28 September) that under-35-year-olds will be targeted to return to China. This issue was also a focus of discussions at the conference organised by the Western Returned Scholars Association (WRSA)."

GlobeCampus Report - University Report E-zine includes the latest survey results on which schools made the grade

globecampus.ca ~ GlobeCampus Report - University Report E-zine includes the latest survey results on which schools made the grade: "We were the first to grade universities based on what their students said about them, and the students have again spoken. For the latest undergraduate satisfaction survey results, turn to our e-zine, which also gives you the option of downloading the magazine as a PDF file."

University World News - BHUTAN: Future higher education hub of Asia?

University World News - BHUTAN: Future higher education hub of Asia?: "The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is renowned for its untouched mountainous beauty. It is also known for its political innovation: its tobacco sales ban and its use of 'gross national happiness country' as a yardstick for development, for example. But could it soon become a higher education hub of Asia?

Its current plans are groundbreaking. Bhutan has a tradition of insularity that has only recently started to weaken. But its government - democratised only two years ago - is embarking on an ambitious plan to build a high-end US$1 billion education city to encourage prestigious universities and colleges worldwide to establish affiliated institutions in Bhutan."

Chinese students pay dearly for Canadian ‘education’ - The Globe and Mail

Chinese students pay dearly for Canadian ‘education’ - The Globe and Mail: "Vic is one of thousands Chinese students who arrive at Canadian colleges and universities each year via recruitment agencies that match students eager for a Western education with universities happy for an influx of cash.

However, an investigation by The Globe and Mail found that some agencies abuse their relationships with Canadian schools, promising Chinese families far more than they can deliver. Often, students are charged thousands of dollars for what turns out to be a semester of English-language training at private colleges loosely affiliated with the Canadian universities to which the students’ families thought they were paying admission.

Some Canadian universities seeking foreign students – who pay higher tuition fees than Canadian students – recruit directly, without using overseas agencies, avoiding the potential pitfalls."

Universities are becoming too business-like, conference told

Universities are becoming too business-like, conference told: "Universities are becoming too much like businesses due to global competition for students, increased reporting requirements from governments and the ascendancy of managers more interested in the bottom line than in academic freedom, some professors say.

'Canadian universities are caught up in an international movement that makes them less autonomous than they were 25 years ago,' said William Bruneau, a University of B.C. professor emeritus and co-chairman of a recent international conference held at UBC on higher education reform"

Academics for Higher Education & Development

AHED-UPESED.org: "The purpose of AHED is to support developing countries develop and expand institutions of higher education by sending volunteers to work on projects in those institutions and in ministries of higher education. AHED is involved in projects in the full range of post-secondary institutions, including universities, colleges, and business, engineering, normal, medical and nursing schools."

Science academies must learn to be more transparent - SciDev.Net

Science academies must learn to be more transparent - SciDev.Net: "To retain public trust in a connected world, science academies need to be more open about the way that they operate.

When India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, criticized an Indian inter-academy report on genetically modified crops last month as lacking in scientific rigour, the science academies responsible for producing the report could have chosen to stand their ground.

Instead, the head of the country's top academy issued an apology a day later, and promised to produce a new report. Although the science academies’ acknowledgment of the weaknesses in their report was welcome, it was the kind of incident that they could have done without, signalling that they may be susceptible to political pressure."

African and U.S. Universities Partner to Tackle Development Challenges Across Africa

African and U.S. Universities Partner to Tackle Development Challenges Across Africa: "WASHINGTON, D.C. – USAID and Higher Education for Development announced that 11 innovative new partnerships between 22 universities in Africa and the United States have each been awarded up to $1.1 million for activities to address issues including food security and agriculture, solar energy, health care, education, and water in Africa. These partnerships will maximize the resources of U.S. institutions while placing African universities in the lead to capitalize on their on-the-ground knowledge, proximity to the challenges, and build their own capacity to better address these challenges"

EAST AFRICA: Moves to harmonise higher education

University World News - EAST AFRICA: Moves to harmonise higher education: "The East African Community's five member countries have inched closer to harmonising and standardising their university education systems, potentially boosting student access and mobility. But the improvements will require major changes to individual countries' education systems.

The Inter-University Council of East Africa Bill was recently published and introduced to the region's legislative assembly. Among other things the bill seeks to allow thousands of university students to move freely across the bloc's institutions via a credit transfer arrangement. The bill will also push universities to review degree classification criteria to meet regional standards, as it strives to harmonise university education in the region."

Institutionalizing Ecohealth: International Development Research Centre

CoPEH–SSA - Institutionalizing Ecohealth: International Development Research Centre: "Taking into consideration the region's unique needs, the focus of CoPEH-SSA is first on building ecohealth capacity and excellence in research. Taking a step-by-step approach, CoPEH-SSA is first being implemented in West and Central Africa - where the Ecohealth program has developed a strong and motivated network of researchers and practitioners - through training workshops, conferences and overall project development and implementation. Eventually, CoPEH-SSA could expand further into East and Southern Africa."

EU-AFRICA: University ties to be deepened

University World News - EU-AFRICA: University ties to be deepened: "New plans for broadening the two-way street between African and European universities were unveiled at a conference in Brussels last week, where 150 delegates from both continents debated closer ties in higher education. The conference focused on a newly published White Paper on bridging arrangements between institutions and greater cooperation between scholars in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Its conclusions follow studies and discussions staged through the European Union-funded Fostering Trust and Exchange between Europe and Africa 2008-2010"

KENYA: State to launch e-learning university

University World News - KENYA: State to launch e-learning university: "Kenya plans to launch a multi-million dollar e-learning university next year, potentially increasing higher education access and easing an admissions crisis plaguing public universities. The National Open University of Kenya will enable students to pursue their degree dreams through online learning, a trend already practiced on a small scale by private universities."

Traffic Picks Up in World’s Education Race - NYTimes.com

Traffic Picks Up in World’s Education Race - NYTimes.com: "For decades the United States attracted more than a quarter of all foreign students in college or graduate education. Recently that has begun to change. While the continuing boom in study overseas — an explosion largely unaffected by the economic downturn — means that the number of foreign students going to the United States has continued to grow, the U.S. share of the foreign student market has fallen to just 18.7 percent"

India's Vision: From Scientific Pipsqueak to Powerhouse -- Bagla 330 (6000): 23 -- Science

India's Vision: From Scientific Pipsqueak to Powerhouse -- Bagla 330 (6000): 23 -- Science: "n a new report, a blue-ribbon panel decries India's systemic failure to capitalize on basic research findings. The report, released last week by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, offers a stinging indictment of India's scientific frailties, noting that science here is 'severely hampered by oppressive bureaucratic practices and inflexible administrative and financial controls.' Titled India as a Global Leader in Science, the 'vision document' also offers a blueprint for strengthening Indian science—one that will require heaps of money to implement."

The Global Academic Revolution: Implications For India- Lecture Excerpts | Look For Edu University

The Global Academic Revolution: Implications For India- Lecture Excerpts | Look For Edu University: "The first Foundation Day of the Kerala State Higher Education Council was celebrated after three years of its inception in the Senate Chamber, Kerala University Campus, Thiruvananthapuram on 12th July 2010. The Day was celebrated through a Foundation Day Lecture on the theme ‘The Global Academic� Revolution: Implications for India. It was delivered by Prof. Philip G. Altbach, (Monan University Professor of Higher Education & Director, Center for International Higher Education (CIHE), Boston College, USA)"

IGNOU to open study centres in six European countries

IGNOU to open study centres in six European countries: "New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), the largest in the world, will open study centres in six European nations, including Germany and France, to offer personalised courses, its Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai has said.

'We will open our centre in Paris next month. Negotiation is going on with Germany. I hope we will start in Germany by the end of this year. Our target is to open five-six centres in Europe by July 2011,' Pillai told IANS.

The Netherlands and Austria are other European countries where IGNOU, the world's largest by student enrollment, is considering to open study centres. It already has a centre in London, the vice chancellor added."

University World News - FRANCE: 'Digital university' makes progress

University World News - FRANCE: 'Digital university' makes progress: "Presenting results of the programme after its first year, Pcresse said: 'For universities to remain attractive to students, to improve their image in the world of education, it is essential for them to be equipped with innovatory digital tools and services.'

The Wi-fi, podcast, digital environment for all programme was launched in July last year in response to a 2008 report by Henri Isaac, a lecturer at Paris-Dauphine University.

Isaac had warned that France was lagging behind in information and communication technologies in higher education and urgently needed to catch up to satisfy the demands of the new generation of 'digitally native' students."

Bad Forecast for U.S. Competitiveness, Says New Gathering Storm Report - ScienceInsider

Bad Forecast for U.S. Competitiveness, Says New Gathering Storm Report - ScienceInsider: "The storm threatening to wipe out U.S. leadership in global science and technology is now a Category 5 hurricane. So say the authors of an influential 2005 report called Rising Above the Gathering Storm in a 5-year update of their work being released today on Capitol Hill."

Mind control: Is the internet changing how we think? - CNN.com

Mind control: Is the internet changing how we think? - CNN.com: "I became aware of changes in my own thinking a couple of years ago,' Nicholas Carr, author of new book, 'The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains', told CNN.
'Like many people, I've spent a lot of time using the net and other digital technologies over the past ten or fifteen years, and I've enjoyed the many benefits those technologies provide.
'But I came to realize, some time in 2007, that I was losing my ability to pay deep attention to one thing over a long period of time. When I'd sit down to read a book, for instance, I was only able to sustain my concentration for a page or two. My mind would begin to crave stimulation and distraction -- it wanted to click on links, jump from page to page, check email, do some Googling."

Ideas Economy: Human Potential 2010 | The Ideas Economy

Ideas Economy: Human Potential 2010 | The Ideas Economy: "Today, humanity is on track to advance physically, economically, and intellectually more than ever before. But there are still serious challenges ahead.
For instance, how do we educate billions of new people in the coming decades—and manage their successful entry into the global economy—in an age of high unemployment and aging demographics? It is this kind of global challenge that can only be resolved by bringing together the smartest minds from government, academia and business—including education, human resources, healthcare, design, policy, science and technology—to debate tough issues and collaborate on practical solutions."

Global universities spread the wealth - CNN.com

Global universities spread the wealth - CNN.com: "Globalization washes like a flood over the world's cultures and economies. Floods can be destructive; however, they can also bring blessings, as the annual floods of the Nile did for ancient Egypt.
The world's great universities can be crucial instruments in shaping, in a positive way, humankind's reaction to globalization and the development of humankind itself"

Three B.C. universities join courting mission to India - Report Card

Three B.C. universities join courting mission to India - Report Card

Three university president from B.C. will join a delegation travelling to India this fall in a bid to improve academic relations as that country prepares to open its doors to foreign universities. Clearly, there's a lot of excitement about India's proposed Foreign Education Providers bill, which would set ground rules for universities wanting to open campuses and grant degrees in India. "If you are a university with global aspirations, you simply cannot ignore India," Tim Goreof the Centre for India Business at Greenwich University told an AUCC workshop over the summer (as reported by Leo Charbonneau of University Affairs.)

But the legislation contains a few snags, Charbonneau reports.

1. Foreign universities wanting to open an Indian campus would be required to deposit $11 million US with the Indian government to protect students in case the school breaks the law or folds.

2. Foreign universities would be required to reinvest any profit in India

Blogging science

Blogging science

University World News - University World News - Global Special Edition

UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge

The UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge was established in 2001, to follow up the outcomes of two major UNESCO world conferences – the 1998 World Conference on Higher Education, and the 1999 World Conference on Science. The Forum provides a global platform for critical engagement with research issues and findings, and its mandate is to help chart, analyse and widen understanding of the systems, structures, policies, trends and developments in higher education, research and innovation.
At the conclusion of the first phase of activities in 2009, the UNESCO Forum published a Research Report, Systems of Higher Education, Research and Innovation: Changing dynamics, edited by Lynn Meek, Ulrich Teichler and Mary-Louise Kearney. The report takes stock of the numerous and rapid changes of the past decade, identifies new dynamics and trends in global knowledge systems, and synthesises the Forum’s main findings. In this Special Edition, University World News reports on a decade of the Forum’s work as encapsulated in the just-published Research Report.

University World News - University World News - Global Special Edition

University World News - AFRICA: Nineteen countries pledge to promote science

 

The 19 member countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa have come up with a raft of resolutions to boost science and technology, including the creation of a central fund to promote the sector.
At a summit held in Swaziland from 31 August to 1 September, under the theme "Harnessing Science and Technology for Development", heads of Comesa governments resolved that each nation should dedicate at least 1% of Gross Domestic Product to research and development, in line with the target set within the framework of the African Union.
Comesa countries have a population of 430 million people and cover a geographical area of 12 million square kilometers. They are Burundi, Comores, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

University World News - AFRICA: Nineteen countries pledge to promote science

OurWorld 2.0

OurWorld 2.0 Solutions to the global challenges of climate change, food security, biodiversity loss and peak oil are within our reach. The Our World 2.0 web magazine shares the ideas and actions of citizens around the world who are transforming our lives for the better. This award-winning web magazine, produced by United Nations University Media Studio, exchanges these insights through video briefs, articles, debates, photo essays and public events.

Integrating Social Media into Online Education

Integrating Social Media into Online Education:: "Many people take it on faith that online education must be run through a learning management system (LMS) like Blackboard, Angel, etc. Those systems were originally designed to allow faculty to move their courses online without having to learn HTML coding. They provided all of the tools needed to deliver an online course in one package."

Cambridge ousts Harvard as world's best university | Education | The Guardian

Cambridge ousts Harvard as world's best university | Education | The Guardian: "Both of them have earned fistfuls of Nobel prizes, have educated enough statesmen to table a string of international summits, and inspired eminent scientists, philosophers and poets.

But Harvard today forfeits first place to Cambridge in a league table of the world's top universities, the first time in the list's seven year history that the Ivy League institution has been knocked off the number one spot.

British universities made a strong showing, with University College London, Oxford and Imperial all appearing in the top 10, while King's College London and Edinburgh appeared in the top 25.

American institutions dominate the list, however, taking 31 out of the top 100 places in the QS world university rankings."

The decline of studying : Macleans OnCampus

The decline of studying : Macleans OnCampus: ". In his upcoming book, Lowering Higher Education: The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education, James Cote a sociology professor at the University of Western Ontario, analyzed a data set taken from 12,000 students from the U.S. and Canada and found similar results. Study times have gone down and grades have gone up, with the Canadian university average climbing from C to a B /A- over the past 30 years."

University World News - KENYA: Pressure to speed up universities bill

University World News - KENYA: Pressure to speed up universities bill: "Lecturers and politicians in Kenya have renewed pressure on the government to expedite a pending universities bill, which aims to revolutionise the country's shaky higher education sector. Among other things the bill seeks to bring all universities - public and private - under a common law and repeal the parliamentary acts of seven public universities."

University World News - GLOBAL: University rankings - It's about jobs, stupid!

University World News - GLOBAL: University rankings - It's about jobs, stupid!: "International study has been one of the global phenomena of the current millennium. The numbers going abroad to university have jumped from fewer than two million in 2000 to more than three million this year. Until now, most of the traffic has been from Asia to Western universities, but there may be a new direction of travel this year, as students squeezed out of British and American universities look overseas in much larger numbers."

ARWU FIELD 2010 Life and Agriculture Sciences

ARWU FIELD 2010 Life and Agriculture Sciences. University rankings.

University World News - AUSTRALIA: The perils of commercialism

University World News - AUSTRALIA: The perils of commercialism: "More than two decades ago, the Australian government decided that international higher education should become an industry; since then it has become a major income producer for the nation. The higher education sector was motivated to make money from international education by government budget cuts, with revenue to be made up largely by entrepreneurial international activity.

One result has been the widespread and welcome internationalisation of both student and staff profiles and important initiatives to internationalise programmes. Another result has been that the prime goal of internationalisation has become money-making, largely driven by government under-funding."

Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies | Issue 2, 2010 'Globalisation and War'

Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies | Issue 2, 2010 'Globalisation and War'

Directory of open access journals

Directory of open access journals: "The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.

The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content."

Science, Nature Team Up on New Journal - ScienceNOW

Science, Nature Team Up on New Journal - ScienceNOW: "Science and Nature have ended their historic battle for the world’s best basic science articles, agreeing to cease their respective publications and co-launch an open-access, online-only journal with an innovative democratic peer-review system, sources at both journals revealed this morning.

'The difficult economics of scientific publishing today did play a role in this decision, but we also saw an opportunity to create a Web 3.0 basic sciences journal for the next generation of researchers,' says Havel Affe, the geneticist who has agreed to become the journal’s editor-in-chief. 'We predict the journal will become the dominant force in scientific publishing.'"

Commentary

Commentary: "University Globalization Is Here to Stay

By Ben Wildavsky

Anybody who makes confident predictions about the future of today’s fast-growing global higher-education marketplace should be reminded that education trend lines can shift unexpectedly and relatively quickly."

Co-operation makes life easier for international students

Co-operation makes life easier for international students: "EDMONTON - Fifty high-level Chinese delegates converged on the University of Alberta campus this week in an effort to increase the number of Chinese students studying in Edmonton.

If the effort succeeds, Canadian students will see more group work aimed at helping students learn from each other, said U of A provost Carl Amrhein, plus swanky new residence towers catering to those used to international urban living, and better online services for payment and registration at the university."

Programme for women scientists brings research to the poor - SciDev.Net

Programme for women scientists brings research to the poor - SciDev.Net: "Winning a fellowship with the African Women in Agriculture Research and Development (AWARD) programme for her research was just the first step for Kenyan researcher Mary Anyango Oyunga.

Oyunga's research —that Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes were extremely rich in vitamin A — was published in 2009 in the African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development.�"

CIHE | The Boston College Center for International Higher Education

CIHE | The Boston College Center for International Higher Education

Journal of Globalization Studies

Journal of Globalization Studies: "The 'Journal of Globalization Studies' is a new international journal distinguished by its focus on the systemic aspects of globalization processes in particular geographic, social, cultural and historical contexts."

Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa

Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa

"FARA is the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, an umbrella organization bringing together and forming coalitions of major stakeholders in agricultural research and development in Africa. FARA complements the innovative activities of national, international and sub-regional research institutions to deliver more responsive and effective services to its stakeholders. It plays advocacy and coordination roles for agricultural research for development, while the national agricultural research systems (NARSs), advanced research institutions (ARIs) and international agricultural research centers (IARCs) develop improved technologies along the research-to-development continuum in their respective countries and coverage areas."

IngentaConnect Internationalization of Higher Education in Africa: Developments,...

IngentaConnect Internationalization of Higher Education in Africa: Developments,...: "his paper analyses the complex process of internationalization, its manifestations and current developments as well as the main challenges it poses to higher education in Africa."

SpringerLink -

SpringerLink -: "Reform in higher education financing in Kenya has been occasioned by both endogenous and exogenous variables. Internal pressures of a declining economy, rapid demographic growth and increased inter-and intra-sectoral competition for scare financial resources, couple with external neo-liberal doctrine championed by global donors like the World Bank have resulted in a new market-competitive policy of financing higher education. This paper analyzes the equity and risk effects of the new policy for the main stakeholders, namely students, academics and institutions themselves. The paper contends that the policy shift has had a significant effect on equity just as it has introduced universities to risks through engagement in academic capitalism with its emphasis on marketization of university programs and services."

SpringerLink -

SpringerLink -: "It is generally known that the general goals of universities are to produce high-quality graduates for the job market, to continuously advance the frontier of knowledge in all the disciplines, and ultimately to advance human civilization. There can, however, be numerous specific goals which differ from one university to the other. Whatever it is, in order to achieve the desired goals, universities need to design a realistic strategic development plan, which must include, among others, the important logistical components and factors of university development."

CODESRIA at a glance | CODESRIA

CODESRIA at a glance | CODESRIA: "The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is headquartered in Dakar, Senegal. It was established in 1973 as an independent pan-African research organisation primarily focusing on social sciences research in Africa.


CODESRIA’s mission required the emergence of a pan-African community of researchers, the protection of their intellectual freedom and autonomy in performing their duties and the elimination of barriers regarding language, discipline, region, gender and generation."

Weekend Essay by Jonah Lehrer: How Power Affects Us - WSJ.com

Weekend Essay by Jonah Lehrer: How Power Affects Us - WSJ.com: "Robert Kelly has written a book which may shed light on why this happens. The book is 'The Power of Followership; How to Create Leaders People Want to Follow, and Followers Who Lead Themselves'. The main thesis of this book is that everyone follows someone; that at the top of an organization leaders must follow groups like customers, the board, society; that followship has various 'styles' just as much as we recognize 'leadership styles'; that one has a greater choice over how one follows than how one leads; and, most importantly, that how you follow is very evident to those around you and effects whether or not they want to follow you. So how you follow effects how you lead.

Some leaders, especially those whose 'followership style' is 'whatever the boss says I do without question' when they rise to a level where they no longer have a single boss telling them what to do may then turn into a caricature of themselves. It looks like an about face but it really reflects a consistent weakness in their character."

The Psychology of Power | Wired Science | Wired.com

The Psychology of Power | Wired Science | Wired.com: "Psychologists refer to this as the paradox of power. The very traits that helped leaders accumulate control in the first place all but disappear once they rise to power. Instead of being polite, honest and outgoing, they become impulsive, reckless and rude. In some cases, these new habits can help a leader be more decisive and single-minded, or more likely to make choices that will be profitable regardless of their popularity. One recent study found that overconfident CEOs were more likely to pursue innovation and take their companies in new technological directions. Unchecked, however, these instincts can lead to a big fall."

Scientific 'code of conduct' must foster openness - SciDev.Net

Scientific 'code of conduct' must foster openness - SciDev.Net: "Ensuring science is conducted with integrity requires a supportive culture, not draconian rules and sanctions.

Last year, in a much-publicised case, two researchers at Jinggangshan University in Southern China were dismissed after 70 scientific papers they had published in an international journal were found to contain fabricated data.�

The university blamed the falsification on the researchers' 'lack of moral integrity'. But critics also pointed fingers at the intense pressure put on Chinese scientists to compete with other researchers and raise their university's status.

For example, Jinggangshan University was reported to have offered prizes of 5,000 Chinese yuan (US$733) for any scientist publishing in a recognised international scientific journal. Other universities are said to have offered twice this figure."

University World News - GLOBAL: US lead slips in world's top 100 universities

University World News - GLOBAL: US lead slips in world's top 100 universities: "American universities continued to lead the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities, but US dominance of the global top 100 list compiled by China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University slipped this year, to 54 institutions against 67 in 2009. Harvard clinched the top slot, as it has since the ranking was first published in 2003.

The University of California, Berkeley, leapfrogged Stanford into second place, while MIT pipped Cambridge into fourth place, leaving the UK university - one of only two non-US universities in the top 10 - in fifth place. Next came California Institute of Technology and Princeton, Columbia and Chicago. Oxford retained its 10th place for the fifth year in a row."

Review of "The Great Brain Race," by Ben Wildavsky

Review of "The Great Brain Race," by Ben Wildavsky: "Globalization is changing the food we eat, the way we communicate and, increasingly, the way we go to college. Nearly 3 million students were enrolled in universities outside their borders in 2009, a 57 percent increase over the previous decade, according to the Institute of International Education, which facilitates exchange programs."

AFP: Shanghai rankings rattle European universities

AFP: Shanghai rankings rattle European universities: "SHANGHAI — Research fraud and limited academic freedom make China an unlikely arbiter for international university excellence, but a Shanghai school's rankings are making Europe's education ministers sweat.
France's higher education minister travelled to Jiaotong University's suburban campus last month to discuss the rankings, the Norwegian education minister came last year and the Danish minister is due to visit next month.
Dozens of university presidents have also made the trip.
'We believed the results would be of interest to university experts and scholars all around the world but we never imagined the rankings would be so influential,' Ying Cheng, the executive director of Jiaotong's Centre for World-Class Universities, told AFP.
The centre has compiled its annual 'Academic Ranking of World Universities' since 2003, listing what it sees as the 500 best schools in the world."

What Universities Can Learn From Airline Alliances - Forbes.com

What Universities Can Learn From Airline Alliances - Forbes.com: "Higher education needs to build tighter global networks to share resources and foster opportunities.
Fourteen years after Manuel Castells coined the term 'the network society,' networks are proliferating: human networks, social networks (real or virtual, as if the distinction mattered), commercial networks and information technology networks, not to mention the fraught challenge posed by new forms of terrorist networks. Fast-frozen structures have yielded to new forms of social organization with 'rhizomatic' reach, to borrow a term from French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and F�lix Guattari. Globalization is less a matter of uniformity than hyper-networking."

2010 - Marginalization | EDUCATION - | UNESCO

2010 - Marginalization | EDUCATION - | UNESCO: "Education systems in many of the world's poorest countries are now experiencing the aftermath of the global economic downturn.

The 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, argues that the crisis could create a lost generation of children whose life chances will have been irreparably damaged by a failure to protect their right to education."

Canadian Global Campaign for Education - GMR Launch

Canadian Global Campaign for Education - GMR Launch: "Reaching the Marginalized
On March 25, 2010, the Canadian Global Campaign for Education hosted the Canadian Launch of the 2010 EFA Global Monitoring Report in cooperation with the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, CIDA and Aga Khan Foundation Canada.

The launch was an opportunity for civil society and government to come together to hear and discuss issues explored in the 2010 report Reaching the Marginalized."

Skill acquisition: Stakeholders canvass lifelong learning for built environment players

Skill acquisition: Stakeholders canvass lifelong learning for built environment players: "Citing the changing body of knowledge, technologies and socio-economic environment, academias and professionals in the building environment have call for a paradigm shift towards lifelong learning in the built environment where the desire to upgrade skills and knowledge is voluntary and self motivated."

nbbusinessjournal.com - Universities are an Asset to Our Prosperity - Breaking News, New Brunswick, Canada

nbbusinessjournal.com - Universities are an Asset to Our Prosperity - Breaking News, New Brunswick, Canada: "Evidence is thick on the ground that universities are a core element of competitiveness. Not only are they the foundation for pure research, they are responsible for much technology transfer and diffusion, they are incubators and accelerators for innovation and they are a vital training ground for technical and professional expertise."

Are You Part of ‘Generation Plagiarism’? - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com

Are You Part of ‘Generation Plagiarism’? - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com: "Universities are finding that plagiarism has become widespread and that many students seem not to believe that copying content without giving credit is a serious academic integrity violation. Do you think the digital age has caused confusion over acceptable practices, or is the notion of original authorship being redefined?"

Guest Voices: 'Astonishing' growth of religion in China - On Faith at washingtonpost.com

Guest Voices: 'Astonishing' growth of religion in China - On Faith at washingtonpost.com: "The Tony Blair Faith Foundation has been looking at the issues of faith and globalization for three years now. We've been working with some of the world's leading universities to define and debate these vital questions academically. We started at Yale University in the United States and now have a network of seven leading research institutes, stretching from Mexico to Australia."

Features | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers

Features | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers: "Establishment of a knowledge city will help to develop Sri Lanka as a destination for investments in higher education and position the nation as a centre of excellence and regional hub for learning and innovation. It will enhance the national economic development efforts through the development of a skilled and educated workforce and the creation of new jobs."

Globalization - When did Globalization Begin?

Globalization - When did Globalization Begin?: "The World Bank states that there have been three 'waves' of globalization. The first began in 1870 and ended at the beginning of World War I in 1914. It was characterized by a reduction in trade barriers and and improvement in transportation technologies, which resulted in major migration of about 10% of the world's population. The next wave occurred from 1950 to 1980 during which multiple trade agreements occurred between developed nations which left out the developing world. The final(and current) wave of globalization(beginning 1980) in contrast has been characterized by the willingness of developed nations to remove trade barriers in order to attract foreign capital."

International Education in the Era of Globalization – The Case of Japan — The Tokyo Foundation

International Education in the Era of Globalization – The Case of Japan — The Tokyo Foundation: "What does it mean to be an effective, integrated international university in today’s globalized environment? Does it mean that the university offers courses in English and strives to be a bi-lingual community? Does it mean the campus welcomes a mixture of international and domestic students on campus? Does it mean domestic students have opportunities to study abroad? Does it mean that faculty members come from different countries, offering new pedagogical approaches to the classroom? And does it mean the curriculum acknowledges international issues in all courses?"

Africa needs science revolution, conference hears - SciDev.Net

Africa needs science revolution, conference hears - SciDev.Net: "Africa needs more global science partnerships and a new generation of scientists trained to solve the continent's pressing problem of sustainable development, according to Mohamed Hassan, executive director of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS).

The continent needs to set up inter-disciplinary centres of excellence in areas of science and technology critical to its economic growth and sustainable development, Hassan said in a keynote address at the fourth EuroScience Open Forum, in Turin, yesterday (6 July"

Animal Welfare: AW Home

Animal Welfare: AW Home: "A single access point for a wide range of information related to the welfare of farm animals. A participatory platform to retrieve and submit information, as well as to engage in commonly developed projects and thematic discussions."

BioOne Online Journals - Sustainability: Virtuous or Vulgar?

BioOne Online Journals - Sustainability: Virtuous or Vulgar?: "Progress in understanding and achieving sustainability requires addressing it as both a scientific and an ethical issue. If sustainability is defined as “meeting human needs in a socially just manner without depriving ecosystems of their health,” most of the words in its definition are normative or value laden. Depending on how critical normative terms such as “human needs” and “ecosystem health” are defined, sustainability could mean anything from “exploit as much as desired without infringing on the future ability to exploit as much as desired” to “exploit as little as necessary to maintain a meaningful life.” We suggest that there are five key areas of sustainability."

BioOne Online Journals - Organizing Teaching and Research to Address the Grand Challenges of Sustainable Development

BioOne Online Journals - Organizing Teaching and Research to Address the Grand Challenges of Sustainable Development: "Academic culture has not evolved sufficiently in its ability to mount adequate responses at scale and in real time to the progressively accelerating complexity that marks contemporary life. This lack of adaptive capacity is nowhere more evident than in the institutional posture of our research universities when they are confronted by the need to address grand challenges—one need only think of global climate change, air and water pollution, overpopulation, hunger and poverty, extinction of species, exhaustion of natural resources, and destruction of ecosystems"

A triumph of education and the future

A triumph of education and the future: "Around the world, education is viewed as an asset, a way to preserve culture, to build economies, to bring society the benefits of knowledge and discovery, the joys of creativity and the satisfaction gained from making a positive contribution."

Globalization; Challenges to the Equalization of Opportunities to the Disability Movement | Tom Wilt News

Globalization; Challenges to the Equalization of Opportunities to the Disability Movement | Tom Wilt News: "Human communities worldwide have tended to move gradually to develop closer associations over a long time. However, lately the speed of the movement appears to have considerably accelerated. For instance, the invention of the jet planes, the computer chip, and availability of electronic mail (email), cheap telecommunication services, huge but fast sea vessels, instantaneous financial transactions across national borders, all seem to contribute to the movement to make the globe even more mutually dependent than ever"

Part two: What international students mean to Canadian universities | University Affairs

Part two: What international students mean to Canadian universities | University Affairs: "Though the term globalization has become a clich�, there is an underlying reality that means both students and universities have reasons to look beyond their national borders. Finally, Canadian universities are lagging behind their Australian and U.K. counterparts"

University at Albany - Globalization Studies

University at Albany - Globalization Studies: "The Globalization Studies major, one of the newest programs of study at the University at Albany, is designed to help students function more effectively in the rapidly changing world of the 21st century"

Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2010, Real Numbers: The New Global Landscape of Educational Achievement

Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2010, Real Numbers: The New Global Landscape of Educational Achievement: "The New Global Landscape of Educational Achievement"

: University of Rochester News

: University of Rochester News: "New Book Explores the Consequences of English as the Dominant Language in Global Academic Journal Publishing"

Defining the 'iGeneration': Not just a geeky bunch of kids | ZDNet

Defining the 'iGeneration': Not just a geeky bunch of kids | ZDNet: "The iGeneration is not “just another name” for the Generation Z, nor does it indicate a clear cut group of people. It’s a sub-group of younger people who already exist, and just because Bill Gates once said it does not and should not set it in stone."

Some Big Lies of Science

Some Big Lies of Science: "“[T]he majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed.”– Harold Pinter, Nobel Lecture (Literature), 2005
The maintenance of the hierarchical structures that control our lives depends on Pinter’s “vast tapestry of lies upon which we feed.” Therefore, the main institutions that embed us into the hierarchy, such as schools, universities, and mass media and entertainment corporations, have a primary function to create and maintain this tapestry. This includes establishment scientists and all service intellectuals in charge of “interpreting” reality."

Benefit Incidence of Public Education and Health Spending Worldwide: Evidence From A New Database

Benefit Incidence of Public Education and Health Spending Worldwide: Evidence From A New Database

Globalization Consequences on Cultural Studies | PoliticalFlirt

Globalization Consequences on Cultural Studies | PoliticalFlirt: "the impact of globalization in the cultural sphere has, most generally, been viewed in a pessimistic light. Typically, it has been associated with the destruction of cultural identities, victims of the accelerating encroachment of a homogenized, westernized, consumer culture. This view, the constituency for which extends from (some) academics to anti-globalization activists (Shepard and Hayduk 2002), tends to interpret globalization as a seamless extension of – indeed, as a euphemism for – western cultural imperialism. In the discussion which follows I want to approach this claim with a good deal of skepticism."

The North-South Institute

The North-South Institute: "The North-South Institute provides research and analysis on foreign policy and international development issues for policy-makers, educators, business, the media and the general public. For more than 30 years NSI has built a reputation for sound, credible analysis of pressing issues related to global development"

A Global Crisis of Development: Responses and Responsibilities - SciDev.Net

New Report: A Global Crisis of Development: Responses and Responsibilities - SciDev.Net: "From greater accountability in international institutions to reducing income inequality and persistent poverty, increasing aid effectiveness and promoting gender equality, the 2010 Canadian Development Report (CDR) aims to inform those who want to understand the impact of the crisis on development and hope to draw important lessons for building resilience and militating against the effects of similar disruptions on developing countries in the future."

Virtual university aims to boost Islamic science - SciDev.Net

Virtual university aims to boost Islamic science - SciDev.Net: "[CAIRO] Two institutions and a prize, all aimed at boosting scientific research in the Muslim world, have been announced by the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

The 57 member states agreed to establish the Islamic Virtual University, the Islamic Universities Business Network, and a prize for academic research papers.

The institutions were announced during the 5th session of the General Conference of the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World (FUIW) held in Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan this month (12–14 May)."

Rise of globalization Kurdish Globe

Display Article: "This new era is the rise of globalization. The term 'globalization' has covered these wide ranges of distinct political, economic and cultural trends, and so quickly has become one of the most fashionable buzzwords of contemporary political and academic debates. It also from many different political views that the emergence of the era of globalization has been seen as a process toward the diminishing of the classical borders of the nation-states. Some might suggest that globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology."

Educational travel can open minds, defeat global prejudices

The Ironton Tribune | Educational travel can open minds, defeat global prejudices: "Travel inspires, challenges perspectives, fights stereotypes and shows young people that, although the world is large, we share more similarities than differences.

Spending a day as a New Yorker or a Parisian can enhance a young person’s perspective and inspire a lifetime of exploration. The ability to understand and interact with other cultures is a crucial skill in the changing global economy.

Studies consistently show that parents report seeing academic improvement and notice a higher level of maturity in their children after participating in an educational travel program.

Because of this research educational travel is now endorsed by the U.S. Department of Education."

The Rise of the Global University: 5 New Tensions - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Rise of the Global University: 5 New Tensions - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "By Simon Marginson
Some scholars date the beginnings of globalization from the first move of people out of Africa. Some date it from the spread of world religions—Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Others date it from the imperial European empires, the Napoleonic wars, or the expanded trade and migration in the second half of the Victorian era. But one thing is certain: In the last two decades, the Internet and cheaper air travel have created such closer integration and convergence that, for the first time, a single world society is within reach—and higher education, ranging beyond the nation-state, is a central driver."

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! | Video on TED.com

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! | Video on TED.com

In this follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where natural talents can flourish.

Ben Wildavsky: Don't Fear the Globalization of Higher Education, and Embrace Free Trade in Minds - WSJ.com

Ben Wildavsky: Don't Fear the Globalization of Higher Education, and Embrace Free Trade in Minds - WSJ.com: "The rhetoric of globalization has become so ubiquitous in the business world that it is easy to forget how radically the same forces are transforming university education. According to OECD figures, the number of globally mobile students, many of them heavily recruited, has increased 57% in the past decade alone. Half the world's top physicists no longer work in their home countries."

Transforming academic globalization into globalization for all - European Journal of Engineering Education

Transforming academic globalization into globalization for all - European Journal of Engineering Education:

"Abstract
Driving innovation and continuous improvement with regard to ecological, environmental and human sustainability is essential for win-win globalization. That calls for research on strategic and monitoring planning to manage globalization and technological and scientific change. This paper describes a new basic function of the university institution 'to teach students to be critical about any kind of information' and presents perspectives, efforts and three proposals for the establishment of a system for managing globalization and technological and scientific change."

Embracing The Global Higher Education Market | Gov Monitor

Embracing The Global Higher Education Market | Gov Monitor: "the globalization of higher education is the process by which the world’s elite jet around the globe to earn degrees at the finest universities, becoming cosmopolitan “global citizens” as they go.

For others, including many of our elected representatives, the global academic market dredges up more foreboding visions of a world in which America’s postwar preeminence in scientific research and innovation is quickly being superseded by the enterprising Chinese and Indian systems of higher education."

World Affairs Council

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Ben Wildavsky, Former Education Editor, US News & World Report

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Every year, nearly three million international students study outside of their home countries, a 40 percent increase since 1999. Newly created or expanded universities in China, India and Saudi Arabia are now competing with European and North American academic institutions for faculty, students, and research preeminence. Meanwhile, satellite campuses of Western universities are springing up from Abu Dhabi and Singapore to South Africa. How is international competition for the brightest minds transforming the world of higher education? While some university and government officials see the rise of worldwide academic competition as a threat, Ben Wildavsky argues that the increased international mobility of students and cross-border expansion of higher education is creating a new global meritocracy, one in which the spread of knowledge benefits everyone--both educationally and economically.

Higher education, globalization and development

Higher Education, Globalization and Economic Development in Virginia academic systems, institutions, and individual departments to cope with globalization. It has been defined as “the integration of an international dimension ... www.schev.edu/Reportstats/GlobalizationReport.pdf?from=