Vice-Chancellor and President on Higher Education
The Vice Chancellor and President is a regular contributor to WorldWise, The Chronicle's international blog featuring commentary from "globetrotting higher-education thinkers who monitor the growing connections across borders".
Other regular commentators include Francisco Marmolejo, Executive Director of the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration and Ben Wildavsky, a senior fellow in research and policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and author of The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World.
Blog entries from Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Nigel Thrift:
- A Global Push to Reduce Dropout Rates (June 3, 2014)
- Civility in Academe, and the Lack of It (April 15, 2014)
- Learning From the Southern Hemisphere (March 28, 2014)
- Seeing Small Times: a New Frontier in Social Science (February 28, 2014)
- 2014: a Year of ‘Consolidation’ in Britain (January 21, 2014)
- Where Is Higher Education’s Global Representation? (November 26, 2013)
- The Return of the Liberal Arts to Europe (November 1, 2013)
- Trading Spaces: the Evolving Academic Office in Britain (October 1, 2013)
- University Anniversaries Worldwide (September 16, 2013)
- It’s Time to Accept Higher Education’s Growing Role in the Economy (August 20, 2013)
- Why Disciplines Are Becoming Less Important (July 23, 2013)
- A Growing Global Appreciation for the Value of Compromise (July 9, 2013)
- Paying Attention in the Digital Age (May 16, 2013)
- Campuses as Beacons of Change (April 26, 2013)
- The Global Challenge of Scaling Up Higher Education (March 26, 2013)
- A British Perspective on the New Modes of Writing (March 1, 2013)
- Changing England’s ‘Downton Abbey’ View of Higher Education (February 22, 2013)
- To MOOC or Not to MOOC (February 13, 2013)
- The Changing Landscape of Global Academic Communication (February 8, 2013)
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If Britain Withdraws From the E.U., Higher Education Will Suffer (December 20, 2012)
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The Future of Big Ed (December 06, 2012)
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A British Distaste for Legacy Admissions (November 13, 2012)
- The Novelist-Academic-Poet on Campus (October 23, 2012)
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Why the U.K. Higher-Education System Shouldn’t Emulate the U.S. (October 02, 2012)
- Immigration Woes (20 September, 2012)
- On being able to find things (17 September, 2012)
- Celebrity Academe (31 August, 2012)
- It Isn't All Bad News (14 August, 2012)
- Vacation Time (24 July, 2012)
- Do We Really Need More Journals? (17 July, 2012
- Maps of Universities (27 June, 2012)
- Building the Future (18 June, 2012)
- The Future of Undergraduate Teaching (29 May, 2012)
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Doing the Rounds (16 May, 2012)
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What’s In a Name? (23 April, 2012)
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South Korea Internationalizes (12 April, 2012)
- Civility and its Discontents (28 March, 2012)
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The Future of the European University (14 March 2012)
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The Future of British Higher Education (5 March 2012)
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Public Goods? (24 February 2012)
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Getting to Go (15 February 2012)
- Art Collections, Museums, and Botanic Gardens (6 February 2012)
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The Pull of Cities (27 January 2012)
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What Responsibilities Should Universities Bear? (19 January 2012)
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Not Necessarily a Smooth Ride (12 January 2012)
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What Does It Mean To Be an Academic? (6 January 2012)
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Everyone’s an Expert (20 December 2011)
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Refereeing in Crisis? (12 December 2011)
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The Perils of Presidency (30 November 2011)
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U.S. Higher Education as a Global Force (16 November 2011)
- The Travails of Wales (2 November 2011)
- What’s in a Name? (25 October 2011)
- The Effect of Students on University Towns: A Negative or Positive? (13 October 2011)
- British Higher Education Is Suffering from ‘Initiative-itis’ (6 October 2011)
- The Cultural Life of Universities (28 September 2011)
- Derek Parfit and the Future of the Academic Workload (21 September 2011)
- The Power of Blogs in Forming New Fields of International Study (31 August 2011)
- England’s ‘Phony War’ as Higher Education Awaits Upheaval (15 August 2011)
- On Ceremony and Ritual (25 July 2011)
- Technology Is Changing What We Do (18 July 2011)
- Brazil Reaches Out (5 July 2011)
- Time for a Change in Higher Education (24 June 2011)
- The Implicit Constitution (9 June 2011)
- Why So Few Ethnographies? (1 June 2011)
- On Offices (25 May 2011)
- As Books Disappear (20 May 2011)
- William James and Rethinking the Global Research University (9 May 2011)
- University Anniversaries Worldwide (3 May 2011)
- Don’t Panic! U.S. Higher Education Is Still Pivotal (26 April 2011)
- Maps and Mapping (18 April 2011)
- Peripatetic: Nine Answers to Why Travel is Neccessary for University Leaders (28 March 2011)
- Crises and Disasters (21 March 2011)
- Something Wrong at the World’s Universities? (15 March 2011)
- The Downside of International Ties (7 March 2011)
- On Incivility (28 February 2011)
- To What End? (22 February 2011)
- The New Industrial Connectivity (14 February 2011)
- Waking the Dead (7th February 2011)
- On Graduation Ceremonies (1st February 2011)
- Secondary Considerations (24th January 2011)
- Moving On from Critique (17th January 2011)
- Higher Education as Consumption (7th January 2011)
- Putting British Unrest in Proportion (17th December 2010)
- The Benefits of Confusion (10th December 2010)
- Producing the Signs of a Global Campus (3rd December 2010)
- Marketization and Nationalization in Britain (30th November 2010)
- Universities Need ‘Network Orchestration’ in International Efforts (17th November 2010)
- Runninghot! - New Zealand Meeting Fosters Dialogue Between Disciplines (10th November 2010)
- Idealism in Hard Times (29th October 2010)
- The Growing Ties Between Brazil and British Higher Education (19th October 2010)
- British Politics and Higher Education (12th October 2010)
- On Seeing the World as if From an Ivy League University (6th October 2010)
- Academic Diplomacy (28th September 2010)
- Gardening Leave (24th September 2010)
- Financial Sustainability in Europe (17th September 2010)
- Academe as a Vocation (8th September 2010)
- Term, What Term? (19th August 2010)
- Building a New Framework for Collegiality (13th August 2010)
- To Regulate, or Not to Regulate (9th August 2010)
- Going For-Profit in Higher Education (3rd August 2010)
- India, India, Listen to my Plea (28th July 2010)
- Travel and its Discontents (23rd July 2010)
- Changing the Weather (16th July 2010)
- Internationalization is Difficult (14th July 2010)
- Defending the University (8th July 2010)
- Across the World: The Privatization of Higher Education (30th June 2010)
- Worldwide? (25th June 2010)