Alex Usher

Host

He/Him. President, Higher Education Strategy Associates

Appears in 87 Episodes

1.7: Study Gods and Losers

S1E7 · March 23, 2023 · 21:12

This week’s guest on the World of Higher Education Podcast is Yi-Lin Chiang, author of Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition which was published in 202...

1.6: Higher Education in the Arab World

S1E6 · March 16, 2023 · 24:06

This week’s The World of Higher Education podcast features the work of Dr. Elizabeth Buckner from the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Dr. Buck...

1.5: Corruption in South African Higher Education

S1E5 · March 9, 2023 · 22:03

This week, Alex Usher is joined by guest, Dr. Jonathan Jansen. Jansen is a professor of education at Stellenbosch University, and the President of the Academy of Science in South Afr...

1.4: Access Gaps in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

S1E4 · February 23, 2023 · 25:09

This week's guest is Jamil Salmi, former tertiary education co-ordinator with the World Bank, global higher education consultant and all-around mensch.Back in the mid-to-late 2000s, ...

1.3: The Year Ahead in American Higher Education

S1E3 · February 16, 2023 · 21:53

Join host Alex Usher as he meets with Chris Marsicano, Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Davidson College in North Carolina, to discuss what's ahead for Higher Education ...

1.2: The Jacinda Ardern Legacy

S1E2 · February 9, 2023 · 17:24

In this episode, Alex Usher is joined by Dave Guerin, Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief of Tertiary Insight, a higher education news service based in Wellington, New Zealand. The s...

1.1: Australian Universities Accord with Andrew Norton

S1E1 · February 1, 2023 · 18:32

In this episode, Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education at the Centre for Social Research and Methods at the Australian National University joins host Alex Ushe...