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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. about 20 hours ago from web
  2. Pawan Agarwal' book, INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION (Sage) is perhaps the best book on India in many years. 2:08 PM Nov 23rd from web
  3. The American University in Cairo is thinking of setting up a higher education center--much needed in the Middle East 2:07 PM Nov 23rd from web
  4. Vietnam is interested in developing research universities. The challenges are tremendous. 8:40 AM Nov 20th from web
  5. Interesting discussion with the Vietnamese about the challenges of developing a diverse system of higher education in developing countries 7:13 PM Nov 19th from web
  6. Learned several interesting facts--the university reports to the Prime Minister, not Min of Education; 70% of faculty hold postgrad degrees 7:12 PM Nov 19th from web
  7. A delegation of senior administrators from Vietnam National University visited CIHE today. 7:10 PM Nov 19th from web
  8. Today, IIE released the latest Open Doors data about int'l students in the US and US students abroad: http://opendoors.iienetwork... 3:40 PM Nov 16th from web
  9. In The Chronicle of Higher Ed today: Foreign Demand Drops for American M.B.A. Degrees, Study Finds . . . but more individuals taking GMAT 10:29 AM Nov 13th from web
  10. Exam fever hits South Korea-- wow! http://bit.ly/1K6E6J 9:04 AM Nov 12th from web
  11. Interesting article about China and the internet in The Atlantic by James Fallows: http://bit.ly/17jizC 7:52 PM Nov 9th from web
  12. Hard not to wonder if academic freedom and internet filtering are compatible. . . . 7:51 PM Nov 9th from web
  13. All Twitter posts from China were done by sending them by email to Boston College to be posted from there. 7:50 PM Nov 9th from web
  14. One stunning part of being in China was running into internet filters--no Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. 7:50 PM Nov 9th from web
  15. PowerPoints for the Shanghai World Class Universities Conference are now online: http://gse.sjtu.edu.cn/WCU/... 3:33 PM Nov 9th from web
  16. Westerhjden & Federkeil assert that problem with current rankings is one or two characteristics dominate ranking position, usually research 9:30 AM Nov 9th from web
  17. New Europe ranking will be flexible so each individual can "map" their own criteria against the database. 9:28 AM Nov 9th from web
  18. The Europe effort is being done by Westerhejden (CHEPS) and Federkeil (CHERPA) and is in its early stages. 9:27 AM Nov 9th from web
  19. Europe developing new global ranking that will emphasize teaching quality and attempt to define comparable groups of institutions 9:27 AM Nov 9th from web
  20. It was suggested that rankings are really only useful if they consider groups of comparable universities which no current ranking does 9:25 AM Nov 9th from web
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  • Location Chestnut Hill, MA
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  • Bio Center for International Higher Education at Boston College
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