Higher education research around the globe

A new Center for Global Higher Education (CGHE) was launched in London on February 2-3, 2016, to intensify research on the importance of international higher education. CGHE is comprised of six centers from different continents with explicit intent to break up the hegemony of European and western influences on higher education.

Another article about the emergence of CGHE noted that scholars attending the meeting raised numerous critical questions all the way from the impact of higher education on social mobility to the cost of tuition and to the nature of learning itself. Paul Ashwin, a researcher at CGHE and professor of higher education at Lancaster University commented that the  Center has the potential to redirect research in important value-added questions such as, "What is it that makes a difference in higher education?" and "What do students engage with? " Asserting that teaching doesn't equal learning, Ashwin encouraged research that  investigates learning at a systemic level.