International Higher Education Crisis in Taiwan | According to the Ministry of Education, higher education enrollment is expected to decrease from 273,000 in 2015 to 158,000 by 2028. This decrease will have a huge impact on the higher education system, with 20 to 40 universities estimated to be in dangerContinue Reading
International It’s time we thought again about higher education | What ails the Indian university? First, public investment in education (as a fraction of GDP, for example) is low by world standards (4 per cent vs 4.9 per cent). This leads to relatively poor infrastructure, insufficient educational and laboratory resources,Continue Reading
International Turning the tide on the ebbing of public trust in higher education | In the US there are any number of factors that have caused people to express scepticism about higher education. The US is in the midst of a populist moment with the election of President Donald Trump.Continue Reading
International Indian Universities Shouldn’t Fall for the Allure of the Yale Model of Financing | Most modern US Universities currently use the “Yale model” of investment, developed by David Swensen and Dean Takahashi. The model, which involved dividing the endowment amount into five or six roughly diverse asset classes andContinue Reading
International Bad politics and the paradox of university rankings | Zimbabwe’s higher education sector finds itself caught in a paradox: the country has one of the highest literacy rates in Africa at 92%, but its universities perform dismally in both continental and international rankings. Pressure is mounting on the post-RobertContinue Reading
