The World View

Even in the age of the Internet, an effective university requires academic community. A neglected requirement of community is space — an actual physical space — where teaching staff and students meet.

Sadly, international strategies are too often relegated to a single office and limited to the mobility of students, international research collaboration, more international publications, and all too often, better positioning in the rankings. This just leaves out too many people.

Internationalists in 11 European countries across all academic fields had published on average about twice as many articles as locals.

A conversation in four parts between Daniel Kontowski and Philip Altbach. Part 3: Making sense of Polish Protests.

Internationalization of higher education is becoming a new mantra for the Polish government.

The World View is pleased to publish a conversation between Daniel Kontowski and Philip G. Altbach in four parts. The dialog considers international strategy from a Polish perspective.

While there is considerable anecdotal evidence that corruption is a serious international problem in higher education, it is difficult to define, confirm and catalog the phenomenon.

A study completed for the European Parliament identified 10 developments reflecting the increased interest of governments to internationalize higher education.