The World View

We are insufficiently motivated to pause and engage in slower, more rational thinking. Instead we seek immediate gratification, cognitive ease and simple explanations.

Armenia is a country whose main resource is a highly intelligent human capital. Yet many of the students who go abroad do not return.

The impending decline in international enthusiasm for the U.S. as a destination for study and research is not only a result of the change in the political winds, but also the failure of universities to take a more active role in the public arena.

The reasons why the world, especially Africa, would be well served to ignore the rankings are numerous.

While the number of students admitted into higher education in China reached 6.85 million by 2012, only 8,363 people with disabilities were admitted that year.

There is something cynical about a proposal that claims to make higher education more equitable for all by reducing funding.

The widespread faculty misconduct, corruption and degree fraud make Ukraine’s doctoral degrees -- similar to its national currency -- steadily depreciate.

Over the two decades 1986-2006, student enrollment increased by about four- to eight-fold at a limited number of universities resulting in "institutional massification," not national or regional massification,