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2 months ago | 
thehindu.com | Eldho Mathews |Philip G. Altbach |Hans de Wit
Strange things are going on worldwide in the area of medical education. On the one hand, there appears to be a shortage of medical doctors, while at the same time governments, and in many cases also medical doctors themselves, oppose increased access to the study of medicine. As a result, there has been an increase in international mobility of medical students from high-, mid- and low-income countries.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
dx.doi.org | Philip G. Altbach |Roger L. Geiger
Hostname: page-component-cc8bf7c57-ksm4s Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-10T12:25:43.749Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2024 Keywords online educationstudent loansprivate higher educationpublic universities Type Policy Dialogue Information History of Education Quarterly , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , November 2024 , pp.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
educacion.nexos.com.mx | Philip G. Altbach |Tessa DeLaquil
Los premios Nobel de 2024 —el mayor reconocimiento a logros académicos— reflejan varias tendencias. Este año, más que otros, las universidades de habla inglesa en la cima de las clasificaciones internacionales dominaron en la adscripción de los premiados, que también resultó en que todos fueron hombres (excepto el de Literatura, pero aquí nos referiremos sólo a los de ciencia).
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Philip G. Altbach
GLOBAL
The 2024 science Nobel prizes (in physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine, and economics) have been won by 10 scientists and academics from just three countries – the United States, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The prizewinners’ current affiliations to academia and-or industry are also limited to a largely similar list of just three countries – the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Philip G. Altbach
CHINA-UNITED STATES
It is unlikely that relations between China and the West are going to dramatically improve in the foreseeable future. Indeed, current election-induced anti-China US congressional activity is a move in the wrong direction. This has harmed educational and academic exchanges, for one thing. The number of Hong Kong undergraduate students studying in the United States, for example, dropped from 5,272 in 2015-16 to 3,021 in 2022-23.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Philip G. Altbach |Gerard A. Postiglione
It is unlikely that relations between China and the West are going to dramatically improve in the foreseeable future. Indeed, current election-induced anti-China US congressional activity is a move in the wrong direction. This has harmed educational and academic exchanges, for one thing. The number of Hong Kong undergraduate students studying in the US, for example, dropped from 5,272 in 2015-2016 to 3,021 in 2022-2023. Over the same period, the number of graduate students rose from 1,041 to 1,589.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Philip G. Altbach
GLOBAL
Strange things are going on worldwide in the area of medical education and related fields, such as dental education and veterinary medicine. On the one hand, there appears to be a shortage of medical doctors, while at the same time governments, and in many cases also medical doctors themselves, oppose increased access to the study of medicine. As a result, there has been an increase in international mobility of medical students from high-, mid- and low-income countries.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
educacion.nexos.com.mx | Hans de Wit |Philip G. Altbach
Las protestas políticas, mayoritariamente relacionadas con el conflicto entre Israel y Hamás en Gaza, han agitado a numerosos campus universitarios en Estados Unidos y en Europa, creando uno de los mayores y más dramáticos conflictos que se recuerden, quizás, desde las revueltas estudiantiles por los derechos civiles en los años sesenta y las protestas contra la guerra de Vietnam en los años setenta. Estas manifestaciones se han combinado con disputas por la defensa de la libertad académica.
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May 17, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Philip G. Altbach
Indian higher education has always been political. Politicians started colleges and universities to advance their careers and build support. State and central government authorities sometimes placed new post secondary institutions in politically advantageous locations. Many of them were established to cater to the demands of the electorate based on various socio-cultural factors as well. The naming and renaming of universities, especially by State governments, are often influenced by politics.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Philip G. Altbach
GLOBAL
On a weekly basis, scandals and other issues relating to international student recruitment in the Global North receive media attention. Most recently, The Sunday Times reported that some of Britain’s prestigious Russell Group universities were admitting high fee-paying international students with lower scores than British students.
