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As a Marie-Curie fellow, I had a great time at the MSCA 2024 Researcher's Careers: Multiple Pathways Conference #MSCA2024BE in Mons, Belgium!! It was a great opportunity to meet current MSCA fellows, alumni, policymakers, EU project managers, REA members, industrial partners, and entrepreneurs!! It is indeed a privilege to be part of the MSCA family! I also had the chance to ask a question at the round table: 'Stakeholder's Perspective on the New European Charter for Researchers.' My question is: why are some countries underrepresented in receiving EU grants? How can we increase the success rate? I hope solid policies/studies will be considered to enhance success rates in these countries. Please watch from 2:39:00 at this link for the discussion: https://lnkd.in/eYQS2kqF

#TuesdayTeachings #educationlaw #education #updates 🔊  Central Govt. has advised the IITs & IIMs to become multidisciplinary 🏫 #NEP envisions transforming higher education institutions (HEIs) into large multidisciplinary universities, by 2023; single streamed will be phased out with time 👩🎓 multidisciplinary institutes will help build vibrant communities of scholars and peers, break silos, enable active research communities across disciplines, and increase resource efficiency, both material and human, across higher education 🈺 In our view, setting up multidisciplinary HEIs will also lead to more academic, research and industry led partnership opportunities, and options for #collaborative deals in the education sector- to help grow and support a multidisciplinary ecosystem! #newmodels #growth #educationinnovation #educationforall Pooja Kapadia Mayank Barman Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas IITs, IIMs advised to become multi-disciplinary: Union Education Minister | Education News, Times Now (timesnownews.com)

IEAA Australia China School Partnership Symposium 21 May 2024 Would have loved to attend this symposium Kirrilee, but unfortunately, the date won't work for me. I'm being taking 'out of country' for a 21/05 80th and I am not allowed bring my laptop or my phone with me. However, congrats on this initiative - Aus needs to define, scope and encourage such Asian school partnership engagement.  At present, the various disparate sources of accessible school partnership information are frequently limited by the silo nature of the engagement. What this symposium can do is identify the nature, opportunities and challenges associated with school partnership engagement in China, It can also reinforce the need for Australian school connectedness and cross - school sharing and leveraging of collective sector knowledge and experience. Further, it can communicate the important synergistic benefit of encouraging and fostering multi-facit offshore portfolio partnership engagement that is seen to complement Australia's, the IEAA's and the sector's internationalisation goals and objectives. That's a mouthful, but this sort of forum provides the opportunity of framing a structure that can identify, support, celebrate and reward individual Australian school offshore collaborative partnership success.

"We live in the greatest age of expanding knowledge that's ever been... there's been nothing like it. It is a tumult of erupting knowledge. It is a wonderful time to be alive in that sense." So says broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, discussing the 1,000th episode today of BBC Radio Four's "In Our Time" - perhaps one of the best and most enduring examples of the popular communication of academic research - in science, history, philosophy and culture. He's right, of course. We can see it in the extraordinary explosion of research output globally, seen in Times Higher Education's data and through the dramatic year-on-year increase in universities reaching the research publication threshold to enter the world university rankings. And we can see just a hint of the rich diversity of discovery and new knowledge creation through the 1,000 extraordinary episodes of "In Our Time". But it also feels like there's never been a more important time for a concerted focus on public engagement and the public communication of research, as we face a crisis of public trust - in universities, in research and indeed, in truth itself. We'll be discussing how to restore trust in higher education at the World Academic Summit #THEWAS at the University of Sydney next week: https://lnkd.in/edYvM6YR Times Higher Education also convenes the The World 100 Reputation Network - a global network of university communications leaders facilitated by Mark Sudbury - where the issue is top of the agenda. They're also convening in Sydney next week alongside the summit: https://lnkd.in/ew58b9ym THE's Matthew Reisz interviewed Bragg in 2017, at around the 800th edition of the show, and you can read some highly prescient words from him here: https://lnkd.in/ehpU-nnP You can listen to Bragg's conversation today with Mishal Husain here: https://lnkd.in/eSAD2ThC Please share your thoughts - your best examples of public communication of academic research, and ideas for more!! #BBCRadio #BBCR4 #publictrust #scicomms #W100 #sciencecommunication #sciencecommunity

Happy New Year 2024 🎊 After reviewing the year 2023 in terms of... - Places you visited - Music you listened to - Photos you took - And multiple other things Let's glance through semi-year review of Indian Research in 2023. In this non-funded report, a group of scientists, faculties and science enthusiasts including me did their best to... -Cover the #diversity of #research done by #Indians in #India -Report them in around 300 words -In the #language you, me and any other English literate can understand Those who are asking where is Indian research and what are we doing on this Earth, they all will get an answer (by just looking at the table of contents). If our quality of #science should become better, then it should reach everyone, so they can know it and support it. This report is a step towards it! https://lnkd.in/dDutQeuC Hope you #engage in this report, #enjoy reading it, and get #enlightened. PS: Every year India publishes around 4 lakhs of research article, this report only covers a microcosm of it (around 150 of them).

In this episode, Professor Judith Lamie and Prof. Christopher Hill talk to Tim Rottleb - science manager at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) @BTUCS where he is an officer in the Department for Regional Transformation. Before joining BTU, Tim worked as a researcher at the Leibniz-Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) where he was part of a research group investigating international branch campus development from urban and economic geographic perspectives. He recently submitted his PhD thesis in geography at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Tim studied Politics and Economics of the Middle East at Philipps-Universität Marburg and worked for UN organizations in Cairo and Berlin. We asked Tim Rottleb about his work with international branch campus development and he talked about his recent work on gateway cities and educational hubs and the motivations for engaging in this space. He pointed out that motivations here are often in conflict – or at least not entirely complementary – with the sending nation looking to establish research intensive institutions but the reality on the ground needing capacity building programmes that can be recruited to. We talked about identity and values – how internationalisation is viewed in different places and how the art of compromise is absolutely necessary. Tim compared the German and UK higher education systems and talked about the rationale for German internationalisation and the underlying contradictions and motivations. We talked about spaces of exception and academic values – reflecting on the narrative that one side is right and the other wrong, and how this impacts the decision making process for where we go and what we do. We reflected on the fact that on an individual academic level, there is often partnership and engagement activity in place but this becomes more problematic at the institutional level. Universities are certainly capable of setting up more and more branch campuses but the real question is perhaps, should they?   Recent articles by Tim: Gateway cities for transnational higher education? Doha, Dubai and Ras al-Khaimah as regional amplifiers in networks of the ‘global knowledge-based economy’ (https://lnkd.in/dPsXUzJm) Circulation and containment in the knowledge-based economy: Transnational education zones in Dubai and Qatar (https://lnkd.in/dJT_E7Xg)   #transnationaleducationhubs #internationalisation #spacesofexception #motivation #internationalhigheredcuation #postcolonialism #developmentalnarrative #germanhighereducation 

Last week, Alex Usher became the guest on the World of Higher Education Podcast joining me to chat about the Canadian Higher Education Sector. We dove into the landscape of the sector, private consulting, but mostly Canada's recent changes around international students in the country. This is an episode you will want to check out! #highereducation #canpse #pse #highered #canada #international

Nearly six years of experience in the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development firmed up my conviction that the effectiveness of the efforts in training can only be measured by its impact on production, that the evaluation of the training by trainees is not adequate yardstick and may even be misleading. So I put that insight into practice. Here is the outcome of training Indian scientists, researchers and science faculty to write science, covering a minuscule part of Indian research in the last six months: https://lnkd.in/dgmyMJaH

New episode now live! China’s place in the Higher education world Clementine Pippa Ebel had so much to share in this episode - it’s one of my favorites yet! 👀 who are the Chinese students that come the European university system (it’s not who you think) 🎛️How different is the education culture here, and how do you accommodate for it? 📈China emerging role as a net provider of higher education https://lnkd.in/eGsGZMYd

Really enjoyed being a guest on Wes Hallam's awesome podcast 'Untapped'. Thanks for having me on! We talk about the backgrounds of Chinese students studying in the UK, integration challenges they face (and possible solutions) and the potential for China to become a leading exporter of education. I would of course recommend listening to the whole thing, but if 45 mins is a bit much for you, here are some takeaways: (1) Who are the Chinese students studying in the UK? "They are generally the elite financially (because there are few parents that can shoulder the costs of UK fees and preparation costs) They are not representative of your average student in China... There is a large portion of students for whom studying abroad is a fall back, because there is immense pressure in the domestic system. If you don't make the top grades you're not going to make a top university in China, and may not have a good career. [2min15; 7min05] (2) What are the integration challenges facing Chinese students, and how could they be addressed? "Chinese students are not integrating. These integration issues should be addressed before they arrive, preparation should be given to the students whether that is cultural learning, introduction to popular culture... or providing digital literacy. Chinese students inhabits an entirely different digital ecosystem. They are using a different set of apps... When they come to the UK, all of the apps they use are new. This is a very simple thing that could be addressed before they arrive." [16min57] (I am aware the above is a generalisation, but reports have shown that socially and linguistically, Chinese students are less integrated than other international students and more sensitive to new environments -- academic paper by L. Tian, 2021) (3) China's potential as a leading exporter of education "China is positioning itself very aggressively on the world stage in terms of not just having the best universities* but also pulling the best talent over. China has been running a widespread government scholarship programme for over 20 years. The number of scholarships given is enormous. In 2018, there were 26,000 Pakistanis studying in China and 80,000 students from the African continent... We should take China more seriously in terms of its education ambitions. [32:55] *The most recent official world ranking of universities saw Peking University placed 14th, ahead of many Ivy League colleges. Enjoy and please do share your thoughts or feedback.