08/04/2021
International Students are coming back to US!!
New Student-Visa Data Paint an Optimistic Picture for Fall Enrollments
The number of visas issued to international students this summer is returning to pre-pandemic levels, a Chronicle analysis has found.
08/31/2020
Good resource to have and share !!!!
Far-reaching book on student affairs and services globally
The International Association of Student Affairs and Services, in cooperation with Deutsches Studentenwerk, has just released Student Affairs and Serv...
08/29/2020
The future of HE in Hong Kong at a turning point . How’s near future going to look like is a question with no straight answer .
Will new security law prove a turning point for HE?
Hong Kong’s academic success is quite remarkable for its size and its higher education’s USP has been its openness, internationalisation and cosmo...
08/14/2020
Collaborations to publish , among universities belonging to different countries , support development of research but they may also be driven by interests rather than necessities. The question is how much contribution should an outside researcher have to a study that regards the contexts of a foreign country ?
African research overlooked in citations, policy debates
Publications co-authored by academics in Sub-Saharan Africa with researchers based outside the region are significantly more likely to be cited, havin...
08/03/2020
While some countries struggle to see “the light at the end of the tunnel “ called Covid19, Denmark is getting ready for an economic growth, by training more professionals through higher ed. programs . The admissions record of 2016 is taken over by over 3,000 more freshmen in the academic year 2020-2021. Two of the fields of studies that have accepted more students are health ( nursing ) and education . Hasn’t the pandemic proved that these are indeed the fields in while the world needs more experts?
The Danes have understood the message of the crisis and are doing things right .
COVID-19 pandemic drives record in student intake
When admission to Danish higher education institutions was published on 27 July 2020, 69,526 students were granted a place – 3,086 more than the pre...
07/28/2020
Covid19 and Global Rankings . Personal view of Richard Holmes on how university rankings might rethink classification .
Will all these really happen ? Which institution will still be # 1 in 3 to 5 yrs from now , it will be interesting to watch .
How will the COVID-19 crisis affect the global rankings?
While the effect of COVID-19 on the global university rankings may not be immediate, it is likely to be significant, with several Western universities...
07/20/2020
AAP and its Team Work for post Covid19 Education Reform
COVID-19 and African universities – AAP dialogue takeaways
In responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, African universities are facing huge challenges in terms of limited resources and glaring inequalities. But th...