Subscription Benefits

The Observatory is committed to informing subscribers of the latest developments in borderless higher education from across the world.

"I believe that subscription to The Observatory represents excellent value for money. The quality, quantity and immediacy of report topics enable me to keep abreast of key issues. Subscription rates reflect the equivalent cost of approximately only ten working days of a committed research officer or two hours of research a week over the course of a year. In the current climate of higher education this is great value for money" - Professor Sir Graeme Davies, former Vice-Chancellor, University of London, UK

Subscribers are kept up to date with the full spectrum of new developments in higher education internationalisation worldwide. We systematically track HE news, provide analysis of the news, and produce timely research reports on issues of interest and relevance.

We provide more news and analysis than can easily be covered at institutional level during a time of resource constraints. In fact, the cost of our strategic information service for one year is about the same as the cost of a research assistant for six weeks. Membership category, ‘National/regional inter-university bodies’, receives a half-price rate of only £550 (about $898).

Join now to receive:

• Full access to our research reports for organisational staff and students; this includes timely intelligence not available elsewhere. For example: International Student Mobility: Patterns and Trends (2007)

• Full access to our reports archive which contains research output over ten years;

• Access to aggregate data from the  – International Student Barometer (ISB) from the International Graduate Insight Group (i-graduate) easily the the largest comparative and ongoing study of international student opinion in the world (this is new and reflects the Observatory’s new home at i-graduate);

• Communications: subscription to our monthly electronic newsletter Borderless Report and full access to its contents (some content is open access and some articles are available only to subscribers);

• A substantial reduction on the registration fee for our annual Global Forums (the 2012 Forum will be in Kuala Lumpur on 25-26 April);

• Invitations to and reduced fees for our other seminars; or most recent seminar in London, with the University of London International Programmes, took place on 3 November 2011, and was entitled  ‘Adapting to Disruptive Times: Emerging Models for HE Provision’

• Opportunities for networking and knowledge-sharing through our events;

• Priority opportunity to publish research with the Observatory;

• Access to our strategic consultancy service: we provide customised primary and desk research on HE internationalisation at discounted rates for subscribers;

• Subscription renewal discounts for referrals that result in new subscribers.

•  Be part of Our Global Network