Read and write with us in Nuffic blogs

Nuffic uses the blogs as a more informal way of communicating with the wider public and sharing the knowledge of its staff. Since the start of the Nuffic blogs, on the Nuffic International Education Monitor (NIEM) pages one and a half years ago, they have proven to attract more visitors to our website.

The Nuffic blogs are personal reports or opinions of our policy offers and represent their individual though professional opinions rather than the official policy of Nuffic. They are in fact partly used to add different points of view, express controversial ideas and stir up the internationalisation debate.

In addition, visitors can post reactions to the blog, which adds interaction and dynamics that will help us stay up to date and alert.

We encourage external experts to send in contributions to be published on NIEM. You can submit blog ideas through our web form.
 

Themes

The blogs are related to one or more of the themes in which Nuffic has built up expertise such as internationalisation, policy and strategy, transparency, development cooperation, the international higher education market, mobility or Europe.

In the blogs Nuffic employees discuss outcomes of current events and analyse ongoing developments in international higher education. One of the latest blogs, for instance, discusses benchmarking in internationalisation, following the conclusion of an EU project and a session at the Nuffic annual conference.
 

Readers

Readers of the blogs come from about 130 different countries. Most of them are from the Netherlands, followed by the US, the UK, Germany, India, Canada, Australia and Belgium, in that order.

Especially the blogs posing a new or critical line of thinking are popular among the readers. Some Nuffic blogs have already led to interesting discussions and retweets on Twitter.