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International Ambitious Modi plan to restructure HE and boost research | India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development this week unveiled a draft National Education Policy (NEP) 2019, just days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi secured a solid majority for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in national elections, giving him aContinue Reading

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International Mexican Higher Education: From Mass to Universal to Compulsory? | In his influential essay 40 years ago, Martin Trow theorized the evolution of educational systems of higher education from elite, to mass, to universal defined by their coverage. He also defined attitudes towards access as privilege, right or obligation.Continue Reading

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International The Role of Librarians in Supporting ICT Literacy | Librarians in educational settings try to provide not only physical access but also intellectual access to recorded information. Because digital resources constitute a significant portion of this information, librarians need to pay explicit attention to the effective retrieval and useContinue Reading

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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