All Episodes

The Half-Time Show: Six Months of Global Higher Education

“Not Even as a Doorman”: Politics and Universities in Colombia

How China Built a Higher Education Superpower

The Knowledge Coalition

How IDP Sees the Next Era of International Education

Universities, Colonialism, and Indigenous Knowledge in Australia

Chair to Chancellor: Lessons in Leading Modern Universities

You Can’t Kill the U.S. Department of Education (But You Can Break It)

Strategic Planning and System Design in Malaysian Higher Education

Branch Campuses, Fake Research, and the Future of Indian Universities

Zombie Universities and the Politics of Survival in South Korean Higher Education

Liberty and Zhi: Chinese and Anglo-American Ideas of the University

Why Iranian Students Keep Protesting

Higher Education in Bulgaria: Rankings, Reform, and Demographic Pressures

Generation Z and the New Politics of Protest

Higher Education Beyond the Public Good

Higher Education After Its Peak

Uzbekistan’s Higher Education Boom

Authentic Universities: Choosing What Not to Be

Royal Roads University: A Canadian University Without Tenure or Senate

What Is UNESCO’s Role in Global Higher Education Today

The Annual Kelchen Review: The Top 10 U.S. Higher Ed Stories in 2025

Monsters in the System: Alex Usher on the Forces Transforming Higher Ed

Funding, Free Riding, and the Future of Canadian Science

A Global Observatory for Higher Education Change: What We’re Learning

Inside the Global Private Higher Education Sector with Dan Levy

Does England’s Newest Higher Education White Paper Actually Change Anything?

Inside the Gaokao: China’s Defining Test with Ruixue Jia

Access and Aftermath: What Racial Quotas Changed in Brazil’s Universities with Luiz Augusto Campos

Capitalizing on College: Mission, Money, and Survival in Higher Ed with Joshua Travis Brown

Undoing Bologna: Russia’s Conservative Turn in Higher Education with Dmitry Dubrovsky

The Widening Gap: Income, College, and Opportunity with Zachary Bleemer

Crisis or Reform? Higher Education in Milei’s Argentina with Marcelo Rabossi

Higher Ed at the Ballot Box: Australia’s Election and the Accord with Andrew Norton

From Funding Formulas to AI: Pedro Teixeira on Higher Education’s Next Challenges

The Year the Money Ran Out: Global Higher Ed Review

Cut, Coerce, Control: What Trump Is Doing to U.S. Universities

Opening January 2026: Inside One of the Biggest University Mergers in Australia

Incremental Change or System Overhaul? An Update on Higher Ed Reform in NZ with Roger Smyth

Between Excellence and Relevance: The Regional University Dilemma

Banking on Human Capital: How RBC Sees the Future of Talent, Innovation, and the Role of Post-Secondary Institutions

Lean, Global, and Tuition-Free: The University of the People Model

Overskilled and Underused? What PIAAC Reveals About the Canadian Workforce

Innovation Without Borders: Galileo’s Networked Approach to Better Higher Education System

“Anything Can Be Done With Anything”: Innovative Universities with Dara Melnyk

The Learning Centred University with Steven Mintz

From Soviet Influence to Market Economy: Mongolia’s Higher Education Journey

Connecting Universities in a Divided World: International Association of Universities’ Mission

Why Boycott? Maya Wind on the Case Against Israeli Universities

Students on the Frontlines: The Ongoing Protests in Serbia with Jim Dickinson

Data, Decisions, and Disruptions: Inside the World of University Rankings

The Great Brain Race, 15 years later with Ben Wildavsky

Colombia's Higher Ed Utopia or Illusion? Insights with Javier Botero

The Governance of European Higher Education: Convergence or Divergence? with Michael Shattock

Beyond the Rhetoric: Mexico’s Higher Education Reality with Alma Maldonado Maldonado

Where Canada lies in Global Trends with Alex Usher

Top 10 U.S. Higher Ed Stories of 2024 with Robert Kelchen

Skilled for the Future: How China is Transforming Vocational Education with Gerard Postiglione

From 36,000 to 12,000: Tracking the Decline in EU Students Post-Brexit with Paul Wakeling

Unrest and Reform: Bangladesh’s Youth Movement and Higher Education with Sharowat Shamin

The Lost Potential of Institutional Research: Insights from 'Outsourcing Student Success'

The University Advisory Group: Reimagining New Zealand’s Higher Ed Future with Chris Whelan

Utopian Universities: A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960 with Dr. Miles Taylor

Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaboration, and Knowledge Production with David Baker

Dutch Higher Education at a Crossroads with Marijk van der Wende

Centers for Teaching and Learning with Mary C. Wright

Building the Future: Inside Qatar Foundation's Vision for Education and Innovation

What a Second Trump Presidency Could Mean for US Higher Education with Brendan Cantwell

Rhetoric and Realities: The Evolution of UK Higher Education with Nick Hillman

Higher Education in a Polarized World with Simon Marginson

2.34: Empire of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China with William C. Kirby

2.33: Illiberal Universities

2.32: 2 Topics, 1 Episode: German Higher Education and U-Multirank

2.31: Korean Higher Education

2.30: European Universities Association

2.29: Higher Education in China

2.28: Culture Wars in American Higher Education

2.27: EdTech with Phil Hill

2.26: Private Higher Education in India

2.25: Mariupol State University: The Invincible University

2.24: Australian Universities Accord – One Year Follow Up with Andrew Norton

2.23: Higher Education in Russia

2.22: England’s Lifelong Learning Entitlement

2.21: Lumina Foundation & National Education Attainment Goals

2.20: Taiwanese Higher Education

2.19: Alex Usher on Canadian Higher Education

2.18: Higher Education in France

2.17: Malaysian Higher Education

2.16: The Failed Fees Free Policy in New Zealand

2.15: "Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Resistance to Change in Higher Education” with Brian Rosenberg

2.14: Javier Milei and Argentinian Higher Education

2.13: Global Academic Excellence Initiatives

2.12: Top 10 Stories of 2023 in American Higher Education

2.11: Post-Soviet Higher Education

2.10: The Floating University

2.9: Chile: A Decade of Gratuidad

2.8: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) — Selecting a Rector

2.7: OECD and the Geography of Higher Education

2.6: African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA)

2.5: Brazilian Higher Education

2.4: Higher Education in India

2.3: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University

2.2: Romanian Higher Education

2.1: Selective Schools and Holistic Admissions

1.18: Admissions, Affirmative Action, and SCOTUS

1.17: Higher Education in Saudi Arabia

1.16: University Governance in Canada: Navigating Complexity

1.15: Performance-Based Funding in Europe

1.14: Colombian Higher Education

1.13: Nigerian Higher Education

1.12: Universities on Fire

1.11: Higher Education in Ireland

1.10: Autonomy Scorecard

1.9: Venezuelan Higher Education

1.8: Instrumentality

1.7: Study Gods and Losers

1.6: Higher Education in the Arab World

1.5: Corruption in South African Higher Education

1.4: Access Gaps in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

1.3: The Year Ahead in American Higher Education

1.2: The Jacinda Ardern Legacy

1.1: Australian Universities Accord with Andrew Norton