International The precarious workforce: An ongoing threat to quality higher education | As full-time professors retire, universities are not replacing tenure-stream positions at the same rate; instead, more and more courses are being taught on a contract basis (remunerated per course) or through limited-term or sessional positions (where instructors teachContinue Reading
International Venezuela’s universities feel the sting of economic and political crisis | Venezuela’s economic and political crisis has sparked food and medical shortages, the world’s highest inflation rate and allegations of a power grab by the ruling socialists. But it is also threatening the country’s future by ravaging higher education.Continue Reading
International Crisis to opportunity: Rehumanising internationalisation | Humanising involves taking on the perspective of the ‘other’, referring to the roughly 95% of the world’s population that is not ‘US-American’. The ‘other’ translates in our field as our current and future international higher education partners. Linking female students’ access to successContinue Reading
International ‘Language at the heart of crisis of Indian higher education’ | “We know nationalism arises out of the tissue of resentment… But deep down if you scratch, the underlying source of resentment is how can you have a system whose standards, norms… defining models are articulated in English…” ImprovingContinue Reading
International Universities – Critical partners in building sovereignty | Broken or inadequate relationships between governments and their local academic communities can undermine autonomous, democratic policy-making, leaving national polities prey to the agendas of foreign powers, according to a new study published by African Minds. The higher education crisis | BuildingContinue Reading
