Foreign and domestic policy can be conceptualised and transmitted separately but together they tell a better story. In higher education, you would be hard-pressed to find a government that disputed the need to ‘go global’ – but what happens at domestic level directly affects how this unfolds. Germany and India constitute interesting and contrasting cases.  

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Crescent in the ascent: Turkish universities abroad

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations’, according to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the modern Republic of Turkey.Economists and university professors, of course, also have their uses. Turkey is one of the biggest success stories of the last decade, and even international organisations such as the World Bank recognise that it will emerge as a ‘global pole’ over the next 25 years. Turkish universitieshave played a significant role in this process and are expected to fare even better in the future.

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Interview with the Rector of the Turkish-German University in Istanbul

Pr. Dr Ziya Şanal, Rector of the recently founded Turkish-German University, shares with us his thoughts on the launch of the school and the prospects of Turkish higher education.

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Broken China: How competition works in China

China is set to overtake the US as the largest world economy in 2016 and to be a dominant force in terms of economic and political power. It is now a highly visible country but not much is known of the workings of the Chinese Communist Party and its current thinking on developing the Chinese higher education sector.

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Work underway on new Observatory branch-campus survey report

The Observatory is currently undertaking research into international branch campuses and will produce an updated report in the autumn for our subscribers. Our previous two reports were published in October 2006 and September 2009 and are available under Reports on our website.

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