The World of Higher Education

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 the world-expert on the phenomenon of World-Class universities and his recipe for creating them — money plus talent plus good governance, and let stir for a few decades — has certainly stood the test of time.Over the past couple of years, Jamil's been working extensively on the issue of equality of access in different parts of the world, in particular in low- and middle-income countries.  You will not be shocked to learn that higher education access is unequal everywhere. What is more interesting perhaps is the fact that these gaps vary *significantly* by country, and not always in ways that you would think. Have a listen.Download PDF transcript

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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 higher education record of recently resigned New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.Host: Alex Usher Guest: Dave GuerinProduced by: Tiffany MacLennan and Samantha PufekPDF Transcript

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 the new Labour Government’s “Universities Accord”. Andrew has been a long-time observer of the higher education scene in Australia.  For many years, he wrote the Mapping Higher Education in Australia, which was the inspiration for Higher Education Strategy Associates’ State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada.Host: Alex Usher Guest: Andrew NortonProduced by: Tiffany MacLennan and Samantha PufekPDF Transcript