Most higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK, Australia and New Zealand actively work with international student recruitment agents. This recruitment mode entails multiple risks, which can jeopardise the interests of international students, providers, and/or the government. This presentation examines agency problems in agent-HEI-government relationships and the extent to which these can be mitigated. This event will be particularly useful for those interested in policies and practices in higher education.

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6/7/2022

In this webinar, Vincent Carpentier will offer a historical lens on student mobility at a time when Higher Education (HE) systems and their internationalisation face a series of unprecedented economic, social, geopolitical and environmental challenges. Vincent will discuss research focused on France and the UK since the 1920s and draws on new historical datasets to explore the long-term dynamics, connections and tensions between the trends and patterns of inward student mobility and the expansion, transformation and institutional differentiation of higher education in both countries.

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2/23/2022

While institutional diversity has underpinned Australian higher education policy for several decades, the economic fallout of the pandemic has reinvigorated calls for greater differentiation between Australian universities. This research qualitatively explored the issue through the strategic positioning of universities, with the results providing a counterpoint to what has become a consensus of sector homogeneity.

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1/20/2022

In this webinar, Dr Zhou Zhong presents on the topic of opening-up as entrepreneurial internationalisation in Chinese higher education.This study describes and explains higher education internationalisation with an in-depth case study of China and Tsinghua University through the perspective of international entrepreneurship. The study highlights the process of internationalisation as a dynamic reciprocal interplay between China’s opening-up policy and higher education policy, especially the world-class university policy.

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11/17/2021

Reflecting on his recent book 'Academic Collaborations in the Global Marketplace' (Springer 2019), Anatoly Oleksiyenko will discuss ethical dilemmas of the professoriate constructing international partnerships for research and development in the context of competitiveness and performative anxiety. His presentation explores a diversity of tensions across organisational and epistemological domains amid questions on what shapes meaningful collaborations and intellectual leadership in global academia.

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10/14/2021

As part of the CHES-CDE Doctoral Seminar Series, Dr Giulio Marini, Dr Tatiana Fumasoli and Dr Victoria Showunmi will present on the topic of doctoral education in this forth research event of the doctoral seminar series. Doctoral education has received increased attention in recent years with concerns expressed about access by minority ethnic groups, preparation for future careers and the appropriateness of institutional structures and support for supervisors. This series will explore these and further issues.

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7/8/2021

In this webinar, Dr Jim McKinley and Dr Alfonso Del Percio will present on the topic of doctoral education in the first research seminar of this series. Doctoral education has received increased attention in recent years with concerns expressed about access by minority ethnic groups, preparation for future careers and the appropriateness of institutional structures and support for supervisors. This series will explore these and further issues.

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6/18/2021

Doctoral education studies have focused on learning processes, on supervisory relationships, on quality, access and employability just to mention a few themes. The rationales for such debates, while partly overlapping, are quite different: they point to concerns about academic excellence, instrumental views, student experience and, more recently, access. Differences in national higher education systems, universities and in disciplines have also added complexity to these conversations. This joint Centre for Higher Education Studies and Centre for Doctoral Education symposium aims to take stock from the ongoing discussions and will attempt to connect these themes.

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6/10/2021