Maia Chankseliani

Planning your UKFIET 2025 conference: A walk through the programme If you are joining us for the UKFIET September 2025 conference, these highlights will be useful for deciding what sessions to take part in.

Planning your UKFIET 2025 conference: A walk through the programme
All you need to know to plan your sessions & networking for next week's #UKFIETConf!
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I'll be joining a panel with fellow Harvard alumni next week to discuss academic freedom. I'll speak about how international study, when it takes place in a context of academic freedom, can influence civic responsibility and institutional change. Register: www.harvardaed.org/calendar

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Intercultural competence beyond international student mobility: insights from a global study

Natalya Hanley & @mchankseliani.bsky.social

Open access → doi.org/10.1177/1028...

#InterculturalCompetence #StudyAbroad #InternationalStudents #StudentMobility #Transnationalism #TransformativeLearning

My work on international student mobility & global knowledge featured in Chinese Social Sciences Today (中国社会科学报). I argue that international students shape knowledge and civic life, & that today’s restrictions risk narrowing our shared horizons
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World Development: doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...
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How does international education shape poverty reduction? Returnees adapt, translate, and embed reform through four mechanisms, far beyond skill transfer. Based on interviews in 57 countries, building on our earlier quant study in IJER. Links in comments.

“Let’s put the worst people in the world in charge and see what happens.”

“I love that video game concept!”

“Game?”

My opinion piece that will appear in tomorrow’s issue of Nature.
It is about what we lose when international students are treated as risks rather than as contributors - when border controls override civic imagination
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh
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A timely and wide-ranging Oxford-Georgia Forum: political turmoil, civic resistance, foreign policy shifts—and what all this means for the future of Georgian Studies abroad. Grateful to be part of the conversation. 🇬🇪🇬🇧 @osgaoxford.bsky.social #GeorgianStudies

Federal judge blocks Trump administration decision to bar foreign student enrollment at Harvard A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration decision to revoke Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students.

That was gratifyingly fast

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Some thoughts on the UK-EU youth mobility scheme that’s being discussed early next week
#youthmobility

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4th Annual Oxford-Georgia Forum
Theme: Quo Vadis, Georgia?
Date: 28 May 2025
9:30–18:45
Venue: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Agenda here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/971...

📢 New report is public!
What happens when people cross borders to learn & then return home to contribute?
Based on 704 interviews in 70 countries + quant data from 134, our report explores how mobility supports change across economy & society ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

Learning, working, connecting: Why a new UK–EU youth mobility scheme matters Youth mobility, once taken for granted between Britain and Europe, is now the subject of cautious negotiation. On 19 May 2025, London and Brussels are set to convene a summit to discuss a youth…

As the UK and EU prepare to discuss a new youth mobility agreement on 19 May, I reflect on what mobility makes possible, not only for individuals, but for societies.

This blog draws on our global study at Oxford and brings in vivid individual accounts

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Does Citizenship Matter in the Republic of Science?
With colleagues from across Asia, Europe, and North America, we revisit Polanyi’s idea through contemporary lenses - academic freedom, governance, inequality, and the societal role of science

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Joonghyun Kwak and I will be giving a virtual talk about the links between international student mobility and poverty reduction today at 9am UK time at HKU.

Do join if you have a chance:

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Impact of USAID Withdrawal on Global Education and Skills Development

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The administration's prescription goes beyond the power of the federal government. It violates Harvard's First Amendment rights and exceeds the statutory limits of the government's authority under Title VI. And it threatens our values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge. No government-regardless of which party is in power-should dictate what private universities can each, whom they can admit and hire nire, ana which area. of study and inquiry they can pursue. Our motto-Veritas, or truth-guides us as we navigate the challenging path ahead. Seeking truth is a journey without end. It requires us to be open to new information and different perspectives, to subject our beliefs to ongoing scrutiny, and to be ready to change our minds. It compels us to take up the difficult work of acknowledging our flaws so that we might realize the full promise of the University, especially when that promise is threatened.

Harvard stands up

Letter to the Harvard community from President Garber

A new paper about the European higher education policy

European higher education policy as a plastique palimpseste: understanding national visions for the European Universities Initiative

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#CIES New Scholars Committee has many great workshop sessions at #CIES2025 Conference! If you're a student or new scholar within CIES, you will not want to miss these learning opportunities. Reach out to newscholars.cies@gmail.com for more details.

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International Journal of Educational Research

The Ripple Effect: Understanding the Societal Implications of International Student Mobility

Edited by Dr Joonghyun Kwak and Dr Maia Chankseliani, this special issue looks at how international student mobility shapes societies.

Read the issue: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Republicans in Congress weigh tax increase for top university endowments Elite US schools including Harvard, Stanford and Princeton could see levies on investment gains raised as high as 21%

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Delighted to see these discussions continue.
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Grateful for this thoughtful review of my monograph What Happened to the Soviet University? in Comparative Education. Thank you, Anatoly Oleksiyenko, for engaging with the book.

Read the review: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03050068.2025.2476895

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Education and the UK’s International Impact – Policy Development Workshop - Wilton Park This dialogue will examine the role of education in extending & consolidating the UK’s global impact, feeding in directly to UK government policy.

Important dialogue at Wilton Park with DfE, FCDO, DBT & education sector colleagues. In a time of global change, keeping the UK’s international education strategy outward-looking is critical. Grateful to contribute www.wiltonpark.org.uk/event/educat...

Join us at the UKFIET conference to reflect on the state of our field in a rapidly shifting global landscape. In times of uncertainty, the need to mobilise knowledge, partnerships, & innovation for sustainable development has never been greater. www.ukfiet.org/conference/u...
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