EAIE Podcast

Episode number eight of the EAIE podcast series features personal and professional perspectives on surviving–and thriving–during a year of extraordinary challenges. Guest Robert Coelen, who spent 23 days in a coma in the spring of 2020 while battling coronavirus-related health complications, speaks from deep personal experience about the meaning of resilience and offers insights into how the field of international education can gain from our collective experience of unprecedented disruption and our

A huge landmass, a massive youth population and a burgeoning middle class: Africa is a dynamic and complex world region by any measure. Viewed through the lens of international higher education, and specifically under the challenging circumstances presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is much to explore in relation to the sector’s current realities and future aspirations. Episode number seven of the EAIE podcast brings us into conversation with the leaders of two flagship international education

Episode number six of the EAIE podcast takes us across the Atlantic and into a discussion about higher education throughout the vast region of the Americas. At a time of significant stress, disruption and uncertainty in higher education around the world, we touch base with a region-wide higher education association—with particularly deep roots in Canada and Latin America—whose members are focusing on solidarity, creativity and innovation to find ways forward through uncharted territory. The

The fifth episode of the EAIE podcast is all about data - numbers and data of many sorts have a powerful role to play in helping us make sense of the world today. The right kind of data, collected and interpreted in meaningful ways, can offer key insights into vital aspects of European higher education and exert real influence on policy and practice. It may not be “all in the numbers”, of course, but data and statistics have a great deal to offer if we leverage them wisely. This episode features the

The EAIE podcast turns its attention the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which together sketch out a vision for a world where good health, vibrant societies, and environmental stability prevail. Education, and specifically international higher education, sits at the nexus of a great deal of the work that may deliver results when it comes to making real progress against the SDGs.In this episode, we are joined by Josep Vilalta, Director of the Global

Allan Goodman has had a long and distinguished career in both international relations and international education. The current pandemic is the 12th in the century-long history of the Institute of International Education (IIE), where he currently serves as President and CEO, and after each past pandemic, academic mobility has resumed and grown.  At a moment when people and societies are struggling to assure their health, vitality and equity, and where technology is stepping into the breach –

With three quarters of the global population living in urbanised areas, cities frame the daily realities of billions of people around the world. In Europe and elsewhere, cities are also home to many higher education institutions as well as the knowledge networks and labour market dynamics with which higher education institutions are so closely connected.  So how much do we really know about cities, and how do their realities and prospects connect to our work in international education? In this

Aminata Cairo discusses the impact of the Black Lives Matter protests, the greater context of inequality framing our current moment, and the power of the stories we tell ourselves.