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International OECD Finds Advanced Economies Need to Accelerate SDG Implementation | The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released an updated assessment of each OECD country’s progress towards the SDGs. Overall, the report finds that OECD countries need to accelerate efforts to leave no one behind, particularly toContinue Reading

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International Why the future is bright for internationalisation | [T]he work of internationalisation is not self-reflexive. We do not internationalise for its own sake. We engage in cross-national research and teaching partnerships, facilitate global learning at home and support student and faculty mobility in order to fulfil higher education’s fundamentalContinue Reading

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International Universities told to tackle ethnic outcomes disparities | Universities in the United Kingdom must demonstrate their commitment to university-wide change as they seek to eliminate the student attainment gap for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) students in UK higher education, a new report by Universities UK and theContinue Reading

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International Cambodia’s failing education system | Even though higher education remains far beyond the reach of most rural and female youth, the gross enrolment rate in tertiary education among youths aged between 18 and 22 has improved significantly over the last 10 years from 4.9 to 20 percent, including amongContinue Reading

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International Marketisation could undermine higher education innovation | The ‘business model’ of university governance, the product of what one might call the English experiment in higher education policy-making, because it does not apply or certainly applies with much less force in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, seems in danger ofContinue Reading