Alex Usher

Internationalization is all the rage at universities these days. Europe’s never-ending Bologna process is to a substantial degree about encouraging a greater degree of student and faculty mobility. Excellence initiatives in Japan, Germany and France (not to mention Canada’s own International Research Chairs Initiative) are specifically about turning particular institutions into talent magnets. Meanwhile, cross-border initiatives in education are rapidly…

In any area of public policy one cares to mention, there will almost certainly be a book published this year decrying its present state. Publishers, for obvious commercial reasons, tend to focus on policy tomes that foretell some form of imminent doom. The actual subject matter is barely relevant: cities, hospitals, schools—all of them have their own books suggesting that things are going to hell in a…