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A report from the OECD attempts to distil global trends in higher education. Despite its valiant effort, it doesn’t quite make it, says Leo Goedegebuure. Digesting all the information brought together by the OECD’s ‘Thematic Review of Tertiary Education’ was ...

David Carter elicited some profound responses from his students in Tokyo on questions of national identity and landscape.   In a system where courses with half a dozen enrolments are considered quite respectable, I was almost patriotically happy to have ...

SunGard Higher Education, which set up its Australian operations a year ago, currently holds a slice of prime technology real estate – it’s got the top slot in Gartner’s “magic quadrant”. The magic quadrant is a device created by the ...

It’s not often that the words enterprising and academic go together. But a UK university has so successfully turned the idea of academic enterprise into a wealth-creating, partnership-forming reality, it is redefining community engagement in the process. Academic enterprise is ...

Creating global pathways should not be beyond our capability, says Tony Adams.   One of the more intractable issues that have confronted international education, and for that matter domestic education, has been the attitudes of many universities and academics to ...