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  1. Philip Altbach will speak at a conference on "Building World Class Universities sponsored by the New Econ. School in Moscow, Russia next wk.
  2. Pawan Agarwal' book, INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION (Sage) is perhaps the best book on India in many years.
  3. The American University in Cairo is thinking of setting up a higher education center--much needed in the Middle East
  4. Vietnam is interested in developing research universities. The challenges are tremendous.
  5. Interesting discussion with the Vietnamese about the challenges of developing a diverse system of higher education in developing countries
  6. Learned several interesting facts--the university reports to the Prime Minister, not Min of Education; 70% of faculty hold postgrad degrees
  7. A delegation of senior administrators from Vietnam National University visited CIHE today.
  8. Today, IIE released the latest Open Doors data about int'l students in the US and US students abroad: http://opendoors.iienetwork...
  9. In The Chronicle of Higher Ed today: Foreign Demand Drops for American M.B.A. Degrees, Study Finds . . . but more individuals taking GMAT
  10. Exam fever hits South Korea-- wow! http://bit.ly/1K6E6J
  11. Interesting article about China and the internet in The Atlantic by James Fallows: http://bit.ly/17jizC
  12. Hard not to wonder if academic freedom and internet filtering are compatible. . . .
  13. All Twitter posts from China were done by sending them by email to Boston College to be posted from there.
  14. One stunning part of being in China was running into internet filters--no Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.
  15. PowerPoints for the Shanghai World Class Universities Conference are now online: http://gse.sjtu.edu.cn/WCU/...
  16. Westerhjden & Federkeil assert that problem with current rankings is one or two characteristics dominate ranking position, usually research
  17. New Europe ranking will be flexible so each individual can "map" their own criteria against the database.
  18. The Europe effort is being done by Westerhejden (CHEPS) and Federkeil (CHERPA) and is in its early stages.
  19. Europe developing new global ranking that will emphasize teaching quality and attempt to define comparable groups of institutions
  20. It was suggested that rankings are really only useful if they consider groups of comparable universities which no current ranking does