Some reflections on the UK government’s new Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper

Planning your UKFIET 2025 conference: A walk through the programme All you need to know to plan your sessions & networking for next week's #UKFIETConf! www.ukfiet.org/2025/plannin...

I'll be joining a panel with fellow Harvard alumni next week to discuss academic freedom. I'll speak about how international study, when it takes place in a context of academic freedom, can influence civic responsibility and institutional change. Register: www.harvardaed.org/calendar

Intercultural competence beyond international student mobility: insights from a global study Natalya Hanley & @mchankseliani.bsky.social Open access → doi.org/10.1177/1028... #InterculturalCompetence #StudyAbroad #InternationalStudents #StudentMobility #Transnationalism #TransformativeLearning

My work on international student mobility & global knowledge featured in Chinese Social Sciences Today (中国社会科学报). I argue that international students shape knowledge and civic life, & that today’s restrictions risk narrowing our shared horizons www.cssn.cn/skgz/bwyc/20...

How does international education shape poverty reduction? Returnees adapt, translate, and embed reform through four mechanisms, far beyond skill transfer. Based on interviews in 57 countries, building on our earlier quant study in IJER. Links in comments.

“Let’s put the worst people in the world in charge and see what happens.” “I love that video game concept!” “Game?”

My opinion piece that will appear in tomorrow’s issue of Nature. It is about what we lose when international students are treated as risks rather than as contributors - when border controls override civic imagination www.nature.com/articles/d41...

British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh List of eligible countries in the screenshot www.britishcouncil.org/research-ins...

Join us today A timely and wide-ranging Oxford-Georgia Forum: political turmoil, civic resistance, foreign policy shifts—and what all this means for the future of Georgian Studies abroad. Grateful to be part of the conversation. 🇬🇪🇬🇧 @osgaoxford.bsky.social #GeorgianStudies

That was gratifyingly fast apnews.com/article/harv...

Some thoughts on the UK-EU youth mobility scheme that’s being discussed early next week #youthmobility

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The link to our report has been updated ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

4th Annual Oxford-Georgia Forum Theme: Quo Vadis, Georgia? Date: 28 May 2025 9:30–18:45 Venue: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon... Agenda here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/971...

📢 New report is public! What happens when people cross borders to learn & then return home to contribute? Based on 704 interviews in 70 countries + quant data from 134, our report explores how mobility supports change across economy & society ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

As the UK and EU prepare to discuss a new youth mobility agreement on 19 May, I reflect on what mobility makes possible, not only for individuals, but for societies. This blog draws on our global study at Oxford and brings in vivid individual accounts www.ukfiet.org/2025/learnin...

Does Citizenship Matter in the Republic of Science? With colleagues from across Asia, Europe, and North America, we revisit Polanyi’s idea through contemporary lenses - academic freedom, governance, inequality, and the societal role of science chelps.eduhk.hk/page/detail/...

Joonghyun Kwak and I will be giving a virtual talk about the links between international student mobility and poverty reduction today at 9am UK time at HKU. Do join if you have a chance: hku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Impact of USAID Withdrawal on Global Education and Skills Development www.etf.europa.eu/en/publicati...

Harvard stands up Letter to the Harvard community from President Garber

A new paper about the European higher education policy European higher education policy as a plastique palimpseste: understanding national visions for the European Universities Initiative link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#CIES New Scholars Committee has many great workshop sessions at #CIES2025 Conference! If you're a student or new scholar within CIES, you will not want to miss these learning opportunities. Reach out to [email protected] for more details.

📢 Online Spaces Still Available for our 10th CGHE Conference 🔗 More information in the QR code below or on our website bit.ly/3DqjF8w Secure your spot today!

The Ripple Effect: Understanding the Societal Implications of International Student Mobility Edited by Dr Joonghyun Kwak and Dr Maia Chankseliani, this special issue looks at how international student mobility shapes societies. Read the issue: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

on.ft.com/4iygjQp Republicans in Congress weigh tax increase for top university endowments

Grateful for this thoughtful review of my monograph What Happened to the Soviet University? in Comparative Education. Thank you, Anatoly Oleksiyenko, for engaging with the book. Read the review: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03050068.2025.2476895 (1/2)

Important dialogue at Wilton Park with DfE, FCDO, DBT & education sector colleagues. In a time of global change, keeping the UK’s international education strategy outward-looking is critical. Grateful to contribute www.wiltonpark.org.uk/event/educat...

Join us at the UKFIET conference to reflect on the state of our field in a rapidly shifting global landscape. In times of uncertainty, the need to mobilise knowledge, partnerships, & innovation for sustainable development has never been greater. www.ukfiet.org/conference/u... @ukfiet.bsky.social

The UK’s decision to cut international development funding in 2025 is another serious setback - coming shortly after USAID’s drastic cuts. At a time of growing global challenges, these shifts make it harder to sustain the partnerships that connect people, ideas, and institutions across borders (1/4)

The climate crisis calls for a radical rethinking of education as a force for ecological and social renewal. 📢 Have insights? Share a short contribution by 28 Feb to help shape “Key Insights on Education for Planetary Futures”, launched at Climate Week NYC & COP30. 🔗 Submit here: lnkd.in/gMjkrMp4

📖 Rereading “On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from 20th Century” by @timothysnyder.bsky.social Lesson #1: “Do not obey in advance.” Before power demands control, people self-censor, conform, and make oppression easy. Sound familiar? 📖 Read it. Share. Act. #OnTyranny #DoNotObey #ReadThisBook

Join our Global Public Seminar in Comparative and International Education on 7 March 2025. Marianne Larsen, Prof Emerita at Western University, is sharing thoughts about space and time in CIE. Reserve your spot now: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @mariannelarsen.bsky.social

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.* So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?

📢 Call for Papers 📢The IJER Special Issue "Understanding Academic Freedom: Cross-Disciplinary, Cross-Regional, and Cross-National Perspectives" is open for submissions Guest editors: Zoltán Rónay, Marcelo Marques, Daniela Craciun, Gergely Kováts www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... #academicfreedom

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Teachers and researchers! Join this free after-school seminar on 6 March to critically explore how the curriculum should deal with climate change 🌍🔎 Join in-person or online. Register now ➡️ bit.ly/OxScienceCli... #OxEduDeanery #Edusky #EdChat #Education

Exploring Port Sunlight, the village built by William Lever for his workers and now a heritage site. Lever’s fortune later funded the Leverhulme Trust. Unexpectedly came across a Chinese dance performance outside the Lady Lever Art Gallery

Chris Glass from Boston College will be giving a Global Public Seminar in Comparative and International Education on 19 Feb. He will be speaking about Technologies of Agency: Student Mobility in Era of Digital Internationalization 3-4pm online, register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

An important report - the UK poverty www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2...

The UK’s competitive advantage is that when, all around the world, people were getting sick of their governments and voting them out, our incumbent government happened to be a right wing one so we could move to the left while everywhere else is moving right. Time to show the world the benefit.

Have created Higher Education Studies starter pack. Recommendations for adding colleagues are very welcome:) go.bsky.app/MiQsaVM

I have been thinking about Robert Frost’s Fire and Ice these past two days. It feels especially resonant.

Goal #1 if elected as CIES VP: Providing opportunities for members to engage in productive dialogue within our increasingly polarized world. Working with all members to advance our common, interconnected aims. Supporting collaborations across ed’l sectors, disciplines, etc.

I was never on Twitter and so I am still getting used to having followers who I don't know personally. Hello! If anyone wants to know my general perspective on pedagogy internationally, here is a link to a recent keynote at the British Educational Research Association: www.bera.ac.uk/media/keynot...

Our new open-access paper examines how international professional mobility contributes to professional expertise, intercultural competence, and career development, highlighting reintegration challenges & broader societal impacts. Explore the findings here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What are the thoughts about these new plans for developing our own AI capacities? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A belated card from a friend of mine came with these stamps❤️