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Maia Chankseliani

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Professor of Comparative & International Education at Oxford www.education.ox.ac.uk/person/maia-…

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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I was interviewed by The Diplomat about the arrest of Professor Ikboljon Qoraboyev, a deeply worrying case for due process, academic freedom, & international academic collaboration. thediplomat.com/2026/09/we-a... @thediplomat.com #CentralAsia #Kazakhstan #Uzbekistan #AcademicFreedom #universities
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‘We Are Horrified’: Academic Freedom at Risk With Uzbek Professor’s Arrest in Kazakhstan
Dr. Ikboljon Qoraboyev’s arrest on espionage charges has sent shockwaves through Kazakhstan’s increasingly internationalized academic sector.
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New paper on 45 people who studied abroad and returned home to democracies. What changed was how they judged what democracy required, once they'd seen it work differently elsewhere. I call this democratic regrounding. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (Open access)
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Nice to see my review included in Nature’s summer reads alongside some very good company. A small summer pleasure. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Rights for rivers and ice cream for all: top reads for the summer holidays
Ten Nature contributors share their current book obsessions.
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
New paper: how does international study actually shape returnees' work at home? Via 393 interviews, I trace 5 mechanisms - reflexive agency, knowledge translation, civic & intercultural understanding, transnational ties - plus a stance I call presence doi.org/10.1177/2212...
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How International Study Is Carried Home: A Mechanism-Based Account of Returnee Engagement - Maia Chankseliani, 2026
International student mobility is increasingly framed through economic and security logics, yet less is known about how international study becomes consequentia...
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Tonight the UK sings "Eins, Zwei, Drei" at Eurovision. A month ago we signed back into Erasmus+. But will it reach apprentices and vocational learners? I wrote about this for Wonkhe:  wonkhe.com/blogs/erasmu... #eurovision #erasmus
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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 06/05/2026
In a new op-ed in @statnews.com, Professor Maia Chankseliani explores evidence on happens when internationally trained health professionals return home, and what health systems need to do to make that return meaningful: www.statnews.com/2026/05/05/b...
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The ‘brain drain’ narrative about health professionals misses half of the story
52 health professionals returned home to 43 countries. Here are the unexpected challenges and opportunities they faced.
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
What Role for Higher Education in the New Global Agenda? Delighted to contribute to NORRAG’s new Policy Insights. My piece argues that international education matters because it reshapes how people see the world and contribute across borders. resources.norrageducation.org/resource/102...
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My new op-ed in STAT on ‘brain drain’ and health professionals. Evidence shows that reintegration is often the real challenge, and opportunity. Rethinking global health mobility means taking return seriously. www.statnews.com/2026/05/05/b... (free registration required)
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The ‘brain drain’ narrative about health professionals misses half of the story
52 health professionals returned home to 43 countries. Here are the unexpected challenges and opportunities they faced.
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NORRAG @norrag.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🌍 Beyond 2030: What Role for Higher Education in the New Global Agenda? 🗓 13 May | ⏰ 15:00–17:00 CET 📍 Online (Zoom) As 2030 approaches, what comes next for global development—and how can universities shape it? 🔗 Register:https://buff.ly/BThlLAA #HigherEducation #SDGs
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“Perhaps most alarming is the rhetorical shift we are now seeing, with universities being seen as legitimate targets in war. This signals a potential normalisation of their inclusion within the strategic logic of conflict,” says @mchankseliani.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/iran-ce...
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Iran ceasefire brings hope after university attacks ‘normalised’
Escalating conflict in the Middle East has seen institutions increasingly drawn into the fighting, with material and physiological damage leaving long tail
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In this NORRAG blog I reflect on UNESCO's new higher education roadmap, highlighting its strengths and the tensions it raises around academic freedom, equity, internationalisation, and AI. www.norrageducation.org/unescos-high...
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UNESCO’s Higher Education Roadmap: What it Gets Right and What it Asks of Us - NORRAG -
In this blog post, Maia Chankseliani engages with UNESCO’s newly published roadmap Transforming Higher Education: Global Collaboration on Visioning and Action. Drawing in part on evidence from the author’s large-scale research project on international student mobility and development, it discusses four themes the document addresses (academic freedom, equity and pluralism, internationalisation, and AI) and reflects on both... Read More
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We are recruiting: Associate Professor in Comparative & International Education at Oxford (Dept of Education, St Antony’s College). Deadline: 1 May 2026 (12:00 UK time) Further details and the application link can be found here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Attending #CIES2026? Join our panel on Sunday 29 March, 4:30–5:45 pm, Ballroom Level, Continental 8. International Student Mobility and Societal Impact: Reframing the Civic, Political, and Institutional Reach of Global Higher Education
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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 10/03/2026
🎉Last night we celebrated @mchankseliani.bsky.social & @veldaelliott.bsky.social, now Oxford professors. From doctoral students to leaders in scholarship, their lectures highlighted universities’ global impact and the power of teaching. Catch up on the recording: shorturl.at/6H8Ef
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Global Public Seminar in Comparative and International Education Universities at a Crossroads: State Power, Academic Freedom, and the Future of Higher Education in Georgia 16 March 3–4pm UK | 7–8pm Tbilisi This is a virtual event and the teams link is below
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Interview with DAAD on international student mobility and its longer-term social and democratic significance, drawing on 700+ interviews across 70 countries. The piece reflects on slow, institutional change and growing political pressures around mobility www.wissenschaft-weltoffen.de/en/2026/02/0...
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Delighted to invite you to my inaugural lecture Seeing Otherwise: International Higher Education and the Possibility of Change as part of Oxford’s Recognition of Distinction Professorial Lectures. Monday 9 March 2026, 5pm. In person & online. Details & registration ⬇️
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Health professional mobility debates still focus on numbers. Who leaves. Who returns. How to offset shortages. This paper shows something else: international education reshapes how health professionals judge responsibility and act within constrained systems. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Internationally educated health professionals and health-system change: A global qualitative study
This article examines how internationally educated health professionals contribute to health system change on return to their countries of origin. Rather than treating return as reintegration or sk...
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The UK has confirmed it will rejoin Erasmus. This matters enormously because Erasmus lets students experience other societies from the inside, shaping judgement and civic understanding in ways no domestic scheme can. Rejoining it restores openness at the heart of higher education
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Our new paper shows how the European Universities Initiative choreographs collaboration. A competitive call pushed alliances into both waltz-like orderly moves and mosh pit collisions as partnerships were formed and reconfigured. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... #EuropeanUniversitiesInitiative
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Our new article examines how international study shapes democratic consciousness among returnees in autocracies and anocracies, and how that consciousness is put into practice through five pathways of engagement. Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
My piece on Centralising Power: Georgia’s Troubling University Reform published in CHELPS e-journal Universities & Intellectuals chelps.eduhk.hk/page/detail/...
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Centralising Power: Georgia’s Troubling University Reform | Centre for Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Some reflections on the UK government’s new Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper
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UKFIET @ukfiet.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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! www.ukfiet.org/2025/plannin...
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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.
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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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Journal of Studies in International Education @jsinted.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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 www.cssn.cn/skgz/bwyc/20...
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
“Let’s put the worst people in the world in charge and see what happens.” “I love that video game concept!” “Game?”
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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...
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh List of eligible countries in the screenshot www.britishcouncil.org/research-ins...
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Join us today 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
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
That was gratifyingly fast apnews.com/article/harv...
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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.
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Some thoughts on the UK-EU youth mobility scheme that’s being discussed early next week #youthmobility
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The link to our report has been updated ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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...
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
📢 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...
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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 www.ukfiet.org/2025/learnin...
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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…
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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 chelps.eduhk.hk/page/detail/...
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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: hku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Beyond Borders: How International Student Mobility Drives Poverty Reduction. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Beyond Borders: How International Student Mobility Drives Poverty Reduction. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Impact of USAID Withdrawal on Global Education and Skills Development www.etf.europa.eu/en/publicati...
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Impact of USAID Withdrawal on Global Education and Skills Development | ETF
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Harvard stands up Letter to the Harvard community from President Garber
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.
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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HallaHolmars @hallaholmars.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#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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CGHE @cghe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
📢 Online Spaces Still Available for our 10th CGHE Conference 🔗 More information in the QR code below or on our website bit.ly/3DqjF8w Secure your spot today!
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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 10/01/2025
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...
International Journal of Educational Research
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
on.ft.com/4iygjQp Republicans in Congress weigh tax increase for top university endowments
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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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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.108… (1/2)
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Maia Chankseliani @mchankseliani.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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...
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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.
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