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Why It’s Imperative that Africa Study Abroad Opportunities Thrive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

and China , students are losing a front row seat to understand what’s at stake. Indeed, as some analysts say China is lessening its lending to African nations because of economic headwinds , America’s future leaders could be missing out on seeing the possibilities. State Department’s annual Open Doors report showed only 2.4%

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THE: Six of the 10 most reputable universities in the world found in the U.S.

University Business

has long maintained dominance of the higher education space, but Times Higher Education’s international rankings last year showed that other countries like China and the U.K. THE considered over 38,000 academics from 166 countries and regions on their opinions of the world’s leading universities. could soon be closing in.

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U.S. university world dominance in jeopardy due to disparity

University Business

universities setting the world standard. THE’s world ranking of 1,900+ universities across 108 countries found that the average rank among U.S. universities scored above the world median in all five categories and particularly well in industry, there is one area it shot itself in the foot: research funding. The post U.S.

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Report: Pandemic Dealt a Blow to Internationalization

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I nternationalization is designed to encourage collaborations between institutions across borders to solve global challenges and to prepare students for a globally connected world —opportunities that were missed during the pandemic. These changes may bring more fairness to which students get the benefits of exposure to the wider world. “In

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What is China's Tech Policy?

Higher Education Whisperer

Greetings from the Australian Centre on China in the World,at The Australian National University, where Rogier Creemers from Leiden University i speaking on China’s Techno-Developmental State: Achieving the Future. Also Dr Creemers suggested China is a

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Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril. What can we do?

University Business

The world of higher education was shocked when Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the former president of Stanford University, stepped down after an independent review found his published research fell short of “scientific rigor and process” and was mired with flaws and manipulated data. The latter may be the worst culprit.

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Are Universities ‘How the World Became Rich’?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin Published in May 2022 The core questions at the heart of much of the social sciences are about inequality. Why did some parts of the world become rich when they did, ahead of everyone else? and Western Europe.