Special Reports – Global Edition
2012: The Year Ahead for Higher Education
GLOBAL

GLOBAL: Confusion, contradictions in student mobility

Hans de Wit*
The year 2011 was a time of confusing and contradictory signals in the internationalisation of higher education. The OECD published data on increased international student mobility worldwide (3.7 million students) and the Institute of International Education and Council of Graduate Schools in the United States reported 5% growth in the number of international students going to America, with China and Saudi Arabia recording the biggest increases in mobility.
GLOBAL

GLOBAL: Are branch campuses serving students well?

Stephen Wilkins and Melodena S Balakrishnan
LATIN AMERICA

LATIN AMERICA: Pressures on marred HE systems

Chrissie Long
AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA: A step into the unknown

Geoff Maslen
SOUTH AFRICA

SOUTH AFRICA: Integrating post-school education

Sharon Dell
The launch in January 2012 of a cabinet-approved green paper on post-school education and training will intensify efforts to create a coherent higher education and training system in South Africa and set the tone for much of the work of the Department of Higher Education and Training for the rest of the year.
ASIA

EAST ASIA: Demographic decline hits universities

Yojana Sharma
Late last year the prestigious Fudan University accused its city rival Shanghai Jiao Tong University of "vicious fraud", saying its staff were attempting to persuade students to abandon their applications to Fudan and opt for Jiao Tong instead. The allegations were denied, but the scandal attracted the attention of education authorities and was seen as a reflection of new cutthroat competition for top students.
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