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24 May 2020 Issue No: 599
GLOBAL
Yojana Sharma
 The COVID-19 crisis and pre-existing China-United States tensions exacerbated during the pandemic will mean a rebalancing of cross-border academic relations, student and academic mobility, and in the pattern of research collaborations with China, with Europe expected to be the main – but wary – beneficiary.
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GLOBAL
Christopher Ziguras If universities want to keep their international students when they move online they will need to confront prejudice about online learning among foreign students and some governments, notably China and India, and prove its quality and develop more attractive international pricing strategies. |
GLOBAL
Kalyani Unkule The COVID-19 crisis provides a focal point for the reform of internationalisation of higher education. We must creatively embed social impact and social responsibility into all learning and offer students frameworks of self-discovery through service or risk higher education internationalisation becoming irrelevant and obsolescent. |
UNITED KINGDOM
Brendan O’Malley
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INDIA-GLOBAL
Yojana Sharma
 This is no time to give up on international higher education, since, post-pandemic, competition for global talent will be fierce. India can either continue to be a feeder of international students or join the game and try to become more internationally competitive.
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UNITED KINGDOM
Brendan O’Malley
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AUSTRALIA
Geoff Maslen
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GERMANY
Michael Gardner
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SOUTH AFRICA
Sharon Dell
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GERMANY
Michael Gardner
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ZIMBABWE
Kudzai Mashininga
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JAPAN
Suvendrini Kakuchi
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SOUTH AFRICA
Sharon Dell and Mark Paterson
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GLOBAL
Brian J Whalen and William G Durden
 Education abroad has the potential to transform students. Poly-dimensional education abroad, whether totally online or via blended learning, can be structured to present challenges to students that contribute to this kind of personal growth through exposure to a wide variety of perspectives.
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GLOBAL
Hans de Wit
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BRAZIL
Luciane Stallivieri
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GLOBAL
John Aubrey Douglass and Igor Chirikov
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SOUTH AFRICA
Nico Cloete, Murray Leibbrandt and Francois van Schalkwyk
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HONG KONG-GLOBAL
Mimi Leung and Yojana Sharma
 Job postings to recruit ‘high calibre graduates’ to the Hong Kong Police Force have been pulled by universities in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom after student groups complained due to the police force’s use of ‘disproportionate force’ while containing anti-government campus protests last year.
GLOBAL
Stephanie Doscher
 The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the landscape of international higher education into disarray. Now is the time to rethink, starting from the why of internationalisation, and encourage even the most seemingly outlandish methods of connecting people and their ideas across borders, inspired by hope.
INDIA
Anand Kulkarni
 India is improving its performance in the higher education Impact Rankings and becoming a power in the broader Asian region. Should it seek to distinguish itself by focusing its efforts in this area rather than aiming to do well in the more research-oriented world university rankings?
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