The Global Observatory of Higher Education changes was launched!

The Global Observatory of Higher Education Changes (GOHEC) was celebrating its kick-off event on the 9th and 10th of September 2024. GOHEC’s is dedicated to facilitating a global dialogue and understanding of the changes and trends in higher education. It serves as a collaborative space for research groups and experts to systematically accumulate, analyze, and interpret data, both quantitative and qualitative, related to changes in higher education systems and institutions worldwide. Its key objectives are

• Describing and systematizing the ongoing (and emerging) changes in higher education internationally, paying special attention to innovations
• Understanding and interpreting these changes identifying system-wide and segment-wide trends.
• Predicting future developments in higher education based on current innovations, and the analysis of historical data.
• Analyzing the changes in higher education research and the training of higher education specialists.

We want to thank the organizing committee Isak Frumin, Attila Pausits, Sina Westa and Katrin Alberts for the wonderful event and we are happy that so many scholars from all around the world have joint GOHEC Amy Stitch, Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Thandi Lewin, Malish C.M. Malish, Futao Huang, Xin Li , Orsolya Kálmán, Zoltán Rónay, Mara Soncin, Tommaso Agasisti, Barend van der Meulen, Hamish Coates, Bojana Culum Ilic, Teresa Carvalho, Maria Rosa, Baocun Liu, Xiaomin Li, Romulo Miguel Pinheiro, Corinna Geppert, Elke Welp-Park, David Campbell, and Ola Mostafa.

Cover picture: University for Continuing Education Krems