While still top performers, there is some evidence of a waning dominance on the part of universities in the United States and the United Kingdom in the latest& ...

Academics and students have welcomed recent public comments from Denmark’s higher education and science minister signalling plans to increase the number of int ...

The quota of non-local undergraduate students from overseas and mainland China at Hong Kong’s public universities is set to double from 20% to 40%, according t ...

Women professors are more likely to leave the profession because of the ‘chilly climate’ of their departments than are their male colleagues, says a new study ...

Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Mychailo Wynnyckyj, has called on Western universities to stem the drain of talent over its borders by refo ...

A major overhaul of Sweden’s system for funding research and innovation is on the cards. It will see all competitive public funding channelled through three ne ...

What are the big take-aways from the 2023 Nobels in the sciences? There are several clear lessons with relevance to higher education. While the world has been ...

On 13 October, less than a week after McGill University in Montréal in Québec province celebrated its medical school’s number one ranking in Canada by Mac ...

In my 2018 book, The Soul of a University, a whole chapter is devoted to saying (in effect) that the phenomenon of ‘university world rankings’ is really j ...

A recent warming of relations between Australia and both India and China helped to open up opportunities to recruit students to Australia and set up branch cam ...

Through a series of inquiries, reviews and amendments in the education and immigration systems, Australia is moving to salvage its standing in the ever-competi ...

The African higher education system is in urgent need of diversification and differentiation if it is to meet the human resource needs and generate the knowled ...