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Advanced Study Institutes: The Top of the Top
A few of the world’s research universities have established Institutes of Advanced Study—small, usually interdisciplinary, centers that bring together scholars...
Undocumented and Unsung-Growing worldwide dependence on part-time faculty
Researchers from 28 countries met in Moscow recently to review and compare each other’s research on academic compensation. The project...
Training University Administrators: Should Management Schools Do It?
It has recently been announced that Yale University will work with the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and the...
The BP paradox: 100% market driven with state controls
English (rather than British) higher education is presently digesting the report by Lord Browne, the ex-boss of BP, called Securing...
Tackling Climate Change through Higher Education in Southern Africa
Africa is the continent that is the most vulnerable to climate change. The reasons are many and include widespread poverty...
If not a world class research university, then perhaps world class liberal arts?
Doesn’t everyone want to be world class? It projects such a nice aura! Recent publications -- first by Altbach &...
Challenges in higher education for Chile's new government
A new government was inaugurated in Chile in March 2010. The incoming administration, headed by President Sebastián Piñera, is the...
Chinese Contradictions
Recent statistics concerning flows of students from China and Chinese views about migration raise some interesting questions concerning the present...