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  • Education and the Workforce: Matching Skills and Needs

    By: Daniel Obst on Tuesday, November 27, 2012

    Reflections on the 2012 World Innovation Summit in Doha

    The annual World Innovation Summit on Education—known as WISE—is a unique, multi-sectoral education conference. It brings together stakeholders from primary, secondary, and higher education, government, corporations and technology companies, NGOs, and—critically—students. And it is one of the most global education events I’ve ever been to: 1,200 participants from more than 100 countries.

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  • Of FROs and WOFEs: Models for Expanding U.S. Universities' Global Presence

    By: Daniel Obst on Monday, September 10, 2012

    Last week, IIE co-hosted one of our occasional “IIENetwork National Conference Calls,” which bring together colleagues from around the world to discuss key topics that affect international higher education. The call was developed by IIE in partnership with JP Morgan and focused on “Models for Expanding U.S. Universities' Global Presence: Strategic and Financial Issues.” More than 160 senior financial and administrative leaders and Chief International Officers from colleges and universities across the United States dialed in for this call.

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Daniel Obst is Deputy Vice President of International Partnerships at the Institute of International Education. He is also the Director of IIE's Center for International Partnerships in Higher Education.

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For more than nine decades, the Institute of International Education has been at the forefront of international education. The Opening Minds blog is IIE’s take on how this field continues to change. Here the Institute’s leaders will explore international educational exchange, global student mobility, institutional partnerships, international development, and other topics and trends that are shaping higher education around the world.

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