The World of Higher Education
The World of Higher Education is dedicated to exploring developments in higher education from a global perspective. Join host, Alex Usher of Higher Education Strategy Associates, as he speaks with new guests each week from different countries discussing developments in their regions.
Produced by Tiffany MacLennan and Samantha Pufek.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 88
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
1.8: Instrumentality
This week’s guest on The World of Higher Education Podcast is Ethan Schrum, Associate Professor of history at Asuza Pacific University in California. Ethan is the author of a very nice work called Th…
1.7: Study Gods and Losers
This week’s guest on the World of Higher Education Podcast is Yi-Lin Chiang, author of Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition which was published in 2022 by Princeton Un…
1.6: Higher Education in the Arab World
This week’s The World of Higher Education podcast features the work of Dr. Elizabeth Buckner from the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Dr. Buckner is the author…
1.5: Corruption in South African Higher Education
This week, Alex Usher is joined by guest, Dr. Jonathan Jansen. Jansen is a professor of education at Stellenbosch University, and the President of the Academy of Science in South Africa. He joins Ale…
1.4: Access Gaps in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This week's guest is Jamil Salmi, former tertiary education co-ordinator with the World Bank, global higher education consultant and all-around mensch.
Back in the mid-to-late 2000s, Jamil was perhaps…
1.3: The Year Ahead in American Higher Education
Join host Alex Usher as he meets with Chris Marsicano, Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Davidson College in North Carolina, to discuss what's ahead for Higher Education in the United Sta…
1.2: The Jacinda Ardern Legacy
In this episode, Alex Usher is joined by Dave Guerin, Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief of Tertiary Insight, a higher education news service based in Wellington, New Zealand. The subject: the highe…
1.1: Australian Universities Accord with Andrew Norton
In this episode, Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education at the Centre for Social Research and Methods at the Australian National University joins host Alex Usher to talk about t…