Dave Guerin has been studying the wave of hypocrisy as the NZ government says it will tie funding to employment outcomes. Graduate outcomes hit the news in New Zealand this month. In many countries, this might be a time when ...

Education is increasingly out of the reach of the average American, and Toby Miller wonders why. A few months ago, I asked a puppeteer, an artist, a perfumier, and an assistant professor – each of whom were their first generation ...

Simon Haines hears some disturbing stories about Chinese pre-kindies. If you Google “baby MBA”, you will find many stories about the problems faced by American women trying to upgrade their business qualifications while raising small children – or about shortened ...

The New Zealand government is moving ahead with plans to link funding with employment outcomes. In a speech at Victoria University last week, tertiary education minister Steve Joyce detailed previously announced plans to introduce performance-based funding for tertiary providers of ...

Vince Cable, the UK business secretary, has opened the door to radical changes in the structure and funding of UK higher education in a landscape of reduced public investment, with potential innovations including bigger graduate contributions for high earners, the ...

New UK education minister David Willett knows his way around the global higher education system. And he may be looking to California to set his reform agenda, writes Christina Slade. Six months ago, Jodi Anderson, who works with me on ...

One of the world’s great research powerhouses is slipping in research performance. Despite several world-class universities, including the Asia-Pacific’s highest ranking university in the Shanghai Jiao Tong, established government research laboratories and several Nobel Prize winners, Japan’s long-standing reputation as ...

Demand for tertiary education study is likely to fall away as the recession eases and tougher criteria is placed on students, NZ tertiary education minister Steven Joyce said last week. In a parliamentary education select committee meeting, Joyce disagreed with ...

New Zealand is going through the opposite of the Australian experience by restricting access to university after decades of a demand-driven system, writes Dave Guerin. In what might prove to be a salutary tale for Australia, New Zealand’s former government ...

The new UK government is looking to corporations rather than institutions to lead the country out of recession. The peak universities body in the UK – like its Australian counterpart – talks up its members’ recession-busting qualities. UK universities add ...