International Has marketisation of higher education reached its limits? | Quality metanarratives, made up of an overlapping number of norms, standards and agencies, offer images of transparency, accountability and excellence within a context of public funding cuts and rising consumerism. Studies show that this market-based quality brouhaha, replete with leagueContinue Reading
International Students: the missing voices in internationalisation | The main perception among scholars is that internationalisation discourses are predominantly about mobility. However, the question is mobility from whose perspective? Student mobility viewed through an organisational lens does not capture mobile students’ viewpoint. International student enrolment set to exceed UK numbersContinue Reading
International Dearth of evidence of value of international cooperation | The benefits of international cooperation in higher education are widely assumed and the costs of such cooperative activities are occasionally acknowledged in the professional and academic discourses on higher education internationalisation. But until recently, the dearth of empirical evidence onContinue Reading
International Here is How Countries Rank in Education | Globally, there has been significant progress in educational attainment over the last few decades. However, the OECD warned in a September report that data show that inequities that manifest early in life – including socio-economic status, gender, immigrant background and geographicContinue Reading
International Embracing the town and gown revolution | The myth of the ivory tower was shattered. The conference illustrated that there is no longer a zero-sum calculation between civic engagement and academic excellence. In fact, it was revealed that in the Global North the closer the co-operation and the betterContinue Reading
