HESA

MAY 3, 2023

One learns a great deal about the differences in how rankings work, ways that higher education works differently around the world, and how the measurement of institutional outputs plays out different contexts. Broadly speaking, in “the west”, institutions face two sets of rankings: domestic and international.

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The PIE News

MARCH 16, 2023

The sheer breadth of rankings can be surprising, from THE, QS, Shanghai Rankings, to the Private University Ranking – ASEAN, Studocu’s World University Ranking, Webometrics, and the Round University Rankings to name but a few. And it’s not only in China where rankings have become ingrained in policy.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Who is a Black American? Barack Obama, the child of a Kenyan economist and an economic anthropologist, who was raised primarily by his white maternal grandmother? Today , over 10 percent of African Americans were born outside the United States and over a fifth (21 percent) are immigrants or the children of immigrants. Gomez, Gerald Horne, Robin D.G.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When the novel’s narrator asks whether he will be the hero of his own life, he is in fact grappling with an issue, human and historical agency, that has become central to academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Few words carry as much interpretive weight as “agency.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Taliban prohibit female higher education indefinitely amid international condemnation It was late evening in Kabul, and Sabra*, a fourth-year medical student, saw a WhatsApp message appear on her phone. In a university chat group for 38 classmates, a friend had shared a news report suggesting the Taliban had banned women from higher education.

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HESA

MAY 2, 2023

And, like many of the Central Asian republics, the system suffered from financial collapse in the 90s and authoritarian Presidents-for-life who were skeptical about the benefits of expanding higher education for fear of creating pools of educated-but-potentially-disaffected young people in the 00s. I’ll talk about the conference tomorrow.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Because it’s widely read as a eulogy for a discipline that has lost its audience and lost its way. As the field has fractured, its mission and purpose have grown increasingly unclear. The number of majors has declined severely and apparently irretrievably. The field is besieged. The field feels increasingly marginalized inside the university.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 21, 2023

The stark divide is down to economic downturn and political instability in the Levant ( Iraq , Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Syria and Yemen ) and North Africa (Algeria, Egypt , Libya, Morocco, Sudan , South Sudan and Tunisia ). The median age in the Middle East and North Africa is 22 and youth make up 28% of the population.

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