Category: Higher Education - Page 2 - The Education and Development Forum (UKFIET)

The Syrian Academic Diaspora and Higher Education: A Historic Moment to Seize

by Oudai Tozan | Feb 3, 2025 | Higher Education

In December 2024 a 54-year brutal dictatorship in Syria came to an end, opening the chance for a historical shift in Syria’s political, social and economic future. Although the future in Syria remains uncertain, higher education is central to that future, it has the potential to promote peacebuilding by addressing… Read More

A Historic Opportunity: The role of Higher Education in Syria’s Post-Dictatorship

by Basma Hajir | Jan 27, 2025 | Higher Education

Following the collapse of Assad’s regime, Syria faces the challenge of navigating through a new beginning: one fraught with uncertainties yet brimming with possibilities. This moment not only marks the end of a dictatorship but also offers Syrians a chance to rethink the systems that shape their society. Read More

Bridging the STEM gap in higher education in Bangladesh: Exploring female underrepresentation in STEM subjects

by Prithvi Shrestha, Claire Kotecki, Rubaiyat Jahan, Halida Homyara, Kristina Hultgren and Nasreen Sultana Mitu | Dec 18, 2023 | Higher Education

UNESCO reported in 2017 that women’s participation in STEM education globally is only 35%. Their participation in STEM education in Bangladesh is one of the lowest in South Asia. In most low-income countries, men still outnumber women in accessing higher education including Bangladesh. Read More

Tertiary refugee education in Ethiopia: Integration and human capital in the IGAD region

by Dereje Anduanbessa Assayew | Sep 29, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Higher Education

This blog is written by Dereje Anduanbessa Assayew, Education Focal Person for the Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative (DAFI) Ethiopia Programme at The Association...

Artificial Intelligence University: The University of the Cyber Age

by Mike Douse | May 17, 2023 | Higher Education

Growing numbers of universities worldwide are offering programmes in Artificial Intelligence. In this UKFIET Blog, Mike Douse describes a very different kind of higher educational institution: one that is based upon and applies AI in all of its actions. Read More

Gender on the higher education learning agenda internationally: Gender mainstreaming in international contexts

by Ruth Goodman and Tamsin Hinton-Smith | Oct 6, 2022 | Higher Education

Mainstreaming gender in higher education is an important means to driving wider social change through affecting thinking, beliefs and behaviour of decision-makers of tomorrow. Towards this end, the GOTHELAI project set out to address gender inequality in international higher education contexts. Read More

Learning Ecosystems: Reimagining Higher Education Access for Refugees

by Maiya Hershey and Harry Haynes | Sep 23, 2021 | Higher Education, Learning

This blog was written by Maiya Hershey and Harry Haynes (British Council), and Ben Webster (Mosaik Education). In dealing with refugee crises, an important but sometimes...

The post-pandemic hybrid university in the time of digitisation

by Philip Uys and Mike Douse | Feb 15, 2021 | Higher Education

This blog was written by Philip Uys, Senior International Education Consultant and Adjunct Associate Professor of Education Systems, Charles Sturt University, Australia, and Mike...

Decolonising Higher Education: Bring Students Back In

by Yifei Yan | Jan 28, 2021 | Decolonisation, Higher Education

This blog is written by Yifei Yan, Fellow, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science. Yifei explains how and why it is imperative that the...

Making online higher education work: Opportunities, challenges and policy imperatives under COVID-19

by Yifei Yan | Oct 13, 2020 | Higher Education

This blog was written by Yifei Yan, LSE Fellow at the Department of Social Policy and a Founders’ Fellow with the American Society for Public Administration. Her research...

Is higher education just a product for the wealthy?

by Charley Nussey | Nov 19, 2014 | Higher Education

Reflecting on the recent Higher Education and International Development Forum, Susy Ndaruhutse and Charley Nussey (CfBT Education Trust) ask whether higher education has...