The 2015 Annual meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund took place in Peru last weekend from October 9th to 11th 2015. Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF, has stressed the need for increased international cooperation between policymakers, stating that they need to work together to reinvigorate growth and tackle common… Read more » about Global Challenges, International Cooperation & Higher Education
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The Role of HE in the Global Competitiveness Index
The Global Competitiveness Report released by the World Economic Forum this week assesses the competitiveness of 144 economies through its Global Competitiveness Index (GCI). The top three on the Rankings are Switzerland, Singapore and then the United States. The UK falls at slot number 9. The GCI is widely recognised, and measures competitiveness through a… Read more » about The Role of HE in the Global Competitiveness Index
Global Urban Higher Education
The Challenges and Potentials of Internationalisation 16-17 September 2015 The Global Urban Higher Education symposium, held on the 16th to 17th of September 2015, was organised by UCL’s Urban Lab, which is a university-wide interdisciplinary initiative aimed to bring scholars interested in ‘the urban’ together. They promote critical, creative and independent thinking, and recognise the… Read more » about Global Urban Higher Education
The UUK Conference 2015
The UK Universities Annual Conference on Wednesday 9 September 2015 (#UUK2015) received a fair amount of live coverage via twitter, and saw further commentary develop through various media outlets over the following days. The speech of Universities Minister Jo Johnson has so far received the most coverage, overshadowing UUK President Goodfellow’s first major speech in… Read more » about The UUK Conference 2015
The UUK Conference 2015
The UK Universities Annual Conference on Wednesday 9 September 2015 (#UUK2015) received a fair amount of live coverage via twitter, and saw further commentary develop through various media outlets over the following days. The speech of Universities Minister Jo Johnson has so far received the most coverage, overshadowing UUK President Goodfellow’s first major speech in her new position. Global BU would like to highlight some key issues raised in Goodfellow’s speech, moving away from media emphasis of the ‘transformative’ capabilities of Universities.