By Ruth A Pagell* (2 Dec 2025) The U.S. government’s shutdown during October and November resulted in similar topics for the October and Novembers webinars. The presenters for these two webinars updated the September presentation, focused on Trump’s “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education”, and covered questions from participants based on pervious discussions. The…
By Ruth A Pagell (31 Oct 2025) The two issues addressed in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s September webinar were international students and academic freedom. Both topics continue to be in the higher education news, and both topics are covered in Ruth’s Rankings. INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: Fees paid by international students are important to many…
(25 Aug 2025) I apologize for being so far behind on my current Ruth’s Rankings article on Impact, but every morning’s news brings more discouraging postings from my government on its involvement in education and research. It makes rankings seem trivial and it makes my colleagues and I feel helpless. By the time I finished…
(25 Jun 2025) The government has unveiled a NT$19.13 billion (US$647.84 million) subsidy package for universities this year, in response to growing concerns about the impact of population aging on the education sector. This year’s allocation is an increase of NT$568 million compared with the higher education subsidies last year. The current phase of…
(1 May 2025) Two and half years after ChatGPT’s commercial release, the higher education community is still coming to terms with how generative AI technology is impacting teaching, learning, and research. Universities, publishers, and other stakeholders in and around higher education have been obliged to react quickly, creating task forces, new guidelines and policies, and other…
(25 Mar 2025) Taiwanese universities this year canceled 86 programs, Ministry of Education data showed, with educators attributing the closures to the nation’s low birthrate as well as shifting trends. Fifty-three of the shuttered programs were part-time postgraduate degree programs, about 62 percent of the total, the most in the past five years, the data…
Higher education institutions are uniquely positioned to evaluate AI ethics and explore safeguards to promote responsible use at colleges and universities. (18 Mar 2025) When it comes to the ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence, colleges and universities are out in front. Many schools already look to AI to support teaching, learning, research, back-office functions…
(5 Feb 2025) Abstract: The paper presents the most comprehensive and large-scale global study to date on how higher education students perceived the use of ChatGPT in early 2024. With a sample of 23,218 students from 109 countries and territories, the study reveals that students primarily used ChatGPT for brainstorming, summarizing texts, and finding…
(5 Feb 2025) On the last day of 2024, Vietnam’s prime minister approved a new Education Strategy for 2030, with a vision for 2045 through Decision No 1075/QD-TTg. In higher education, the strategy sets several targets for 2030 in terms of accessibility, quality, research and internationalisation. In summary, these targets include: • Accessibility: At least…
(19 Dec 2024) In 2023, much of the conversation about AI centered around academic integrity and fears that students would use AI as another cheating tool. In 2024, more universities started thinking about adopting these tools, though an Inside Higher Ed survey of chief technology officers showed that just 9 percent said they believed higher education is prepared for AI’s rise. …