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Category Archives: higher education
Using SCOPE to teach educational development
By Anne Campbell, Ph.D. and students at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies It is not a simple task to prepare students about educational development around the world. At the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, we try to do this … Continue reading
COVID: A complex crisis that has magnified existing vulnerabilities in Nepal
By Priyadarshani Joshi, GEM Report The current situation is one of a combined health, economic and political emergency In Nepal, a country where hundreds of thousands receive higher education abroad, the first two confirmed COVID cases were linked to higher … Continue reading
Posted in digital literacy, Finance, higher education, Marginalization, migrant, migration
Tagged covid19
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Flexible learning during Covid-19: how to ensure quality higher education at a distance
By Michaela Martin and Uliana Furiv, respective lead and consultant working at the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning programme specialist on a project on flexible learning pathways. The Covid-19 outbreak closed universities and other tertiary education institutions in 175 … Continue reading
Posted in emergencies, higher education, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, higher education, technology, tertiary education
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How will Covid-19 affect the internationalization of higher education?
University costs. It didn’t take long after universities closed their doors in the United States, for instance, for students to start advocating to get their money back. Twitter is awash with professors concerned about the impact that shutting universities is … Continue reading
Posted in Health, higher education, Out-of-school children, Teachers, teaching
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, higher education, out of school, teachers, teaching, universities
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Roxana, a Romanian student on an Erasmus exchange programme, “learned to look beyond stereotypes”
This content comes from our newly released interactive youth version of the 2019 GEM Report. The EU’s higher education strategy includes a target for at least 20% of graduates to experience part of their study or training abroad. Erasmus is … Continue reading
What is education worth? Should France be hiking its university fees for foreign students?
Recently, in France, not just the gilets jaunes have been protesting, but also students. Why? Foreign students have just been informed their fees are going to be lifted by around 11 times. The change will see international students who are … Continue reading
I have the qualifications and 16 years of experience. Why can’t I find a job?
Beata, a qualified and experienced Polish teacher emigrated to the UK so that her children could learn English, but never managed to get a job there, not even as a teaching assistant. Beata holds a Master’s degree in pedagogy, 16 … Continue reading
Posted in higher education, immigrant, immigration, migrant, migration, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged higher education, immigrants, immigration, migrants, migration
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Everyone benefits from diversity on campus – why the problem with affirmative action?
This week, affirmative action has been making the headlines in the United States. First introduced by President Kennedy in 1961, the policy was designed to ensure non-discrimination in university enrollment. Although originally some universities used strict quotas to admit a … Continue reading
The Chilean students are back for more: protesting for education equality
For the third time in the past 12 years, Chilean students are back on the streets calling for equality in education. This time they are protesting a decision taken by the Constitutional Tribunal to overturn the Higher Education Law, which … Continue reading
What is a ‘living laboratory’, and why should all universities become one?
Last year, the Planet chapter from the 2016 GEM Report formed the basis of the keynote presentation that kicked off the Education day at the COP22 in Morocco. UNESCO’s former Director-General Irina Bokova and the GEM Report’s Manos Antoninis were … Continue reading
