International Higher Education

Towards a Global PhD? Forces and Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide.

2011

Beyond National Boundaries: An International Profile of the University of California, Berkeley

Maresi Nerad
1990

International involvements at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), are described. UCB's international activities are not shaped by any official campus plan, but result from the efforts of individual scholars and various campus organizations. Four broad types of internationally-focused activities at UCB are as follows: academic exchange programs; the exchange of ideas and experience through conferences, seminars, and workshops; technical assistance involving a variety of experts and specialists; and extracurricular education such as music, film, art, theater, and sports. In...

Demagogues and Democracy – It Can't Happen Here?

John Aubrey Douglass
2019

What is the fate of Hong Kong’s universities under Xi?

Bryan Edward Penprase
John Aubrey Douglass
2021

Like Peas in a Pod – How Trump and Bolsonaro Attack Science and Democracy

John Aubrey Douglass
2021

What’s New About Neo-Nationalism, Anyway?

John Aubrey Douglass
2021

A Bolsonaro defeat will not fully undo his damage to Brazilian science

John Aubrey Douglass
2021

Universities in Russia face a dramatic turning point

John Aubrey Douglass
Igor Chirikov
2022

SERU Research Report on Graduate Student Experiences in Japan

Lilan Chen
Akari Kikuchi
Yuichiro Wajima
Tatsuo Kawashima
2024

Given the perceived imbalance in resource allocation and the recognized disparities in degree completion rates across academic disciplines in Japan's higher education system, this study explores the perceptions and experiences of graduate students through a comparison between graduate students in Humanities and Social Sciences and those in Sciences and Engineering. Osaka University has been chosen as the case study because it is one of the former empirical and research-intensive universities located in the international city of Osaka, Japan, which is well-known as one of the most DEI-...

The Revolution of the Dons, Cambridge and Society in Victorian England by Sheldon Rothblatt (1968)

Sheldon Rothblatt
1968

This sensitive and lively 1968 history made an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between higher education and social change in nineteenth-century England, showing how the internal life of an ancient university was affected by historic events extrinsic to it. The role that university was required to play in society was being forced to evolve: no longer a finishing school for the aristocracy, universities were becoming a place of professional training for the middle classes. This required a new generation of dons to relate tradition to the ideals of the...