Greater diversity, more opportunities in Sing...
For a small country with few natural resources, education has always been a key priority for Singapore.
In the Ministry of Education, we see our role as moulding the future of ...
Anti-poverty campaigner puts education first
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed has built BRAC into the world’s biggest non-profit organisation and won the first WISE Prize for his efforts. He looks back at his career and outlines ...
Plain speaking as challenges loom for Korean ...
Dr Young-Gil Kim is trying to secure the future of his country’s universities in the face of demographic decline and demand for lower fees. He tells John O’Leary of his ...
A double life balancing quantity with quality...
ADM Bajpai tells John O’Leary that India’s own universities can make a telling contribution to the country’s attempts to satisfy huge demand for higher education while also raising standards.
Heading up ...
Global player to deliver top quality to Middl...
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh tells John O’Leary of his plans to bring together some of the world’s leading universities in an online institution that will make the best courses available all over ...
Is a new dawn on the way for African universi...
Goolam Mohamedbhai finds reasons for optimism after decades of paralysis in the continent’s higher education institutions. He tells John O’Leary that they represent the best hope for millions to escape ...
From political pioneer to academic reformer
Dr Theuns Eloff was a key player in the ending of apartheid. Now he tells John O’Leary of his hopes for his own unconventional university and for South African higher ...
Tearing up the educational map to create worl...
Hong Kong has launched a radical reform of its schools and universities to encourage creativity and independent learning. John O’Leary outlines plans to replace the British legacy with a more ...
Indonesia: Sleeping giant with big ambitions
Prof Herry Suhardiyanto lives with the frustrations of running a leading agricultural institution in an age when the young hanker after city life. But he tells John O’Leary that with ...
Asia can double its number of world-leading u...
Bertil Andersson, President of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, believes that academic momentum is already switching to the East. He tells John O’Leary that the full extent of the change ...
