By Linda Yeung. Growing up in Pakistan, Meher Jabeen (pictured) saw first-hand how women suffered from domestic violence on a daily basis and on an extreme level. Her desire to see things changed has only strengthened after enrolling at the Asian University for Women, or AUW, in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Read more...

By Wachira Kigotho. The risk of not being part of Africa’s fast-growing business opportunities is pushing business schools in Western Europe and the United States to start expanding onto a continent that is emerging as a force in the global economic enterprise. Read more...

By John Traxler. The phrase “Digital Life and Mobile Learning” is intended to summarise the tensions and paradox between two powerful and significant ideas.
These ideas are, on the one hand, the attempts in schools, colleges and universities around the world to use personal mobile devices to finally deliver learning ‘anywhere, anytime’, as promised 20 years ago by the e-learning missionaries and visionaries, and, on the other hand, the reality of people outside these institutions, using the same mobile technologies to create, transform, discuss, discard, share, store and transmit ideas, opinions, images and information. Read more...

By Patrick Blessinger. Internationalisation is the adaptive strategic response of an institution or nation to the forces of globalisation, which itself is a process of increasing interdependence and interconnectedness between countries. No country or sector or institution is immune from the process of globalisation, including higher education. Read more...

By Ranjit Goswami. At the beginning of this month, the first committee of India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development set up by the new government submitted its report. The report clearly concluded that India’s University Grants Commission, or UGC, the statutory body regulating India’s nearly 700 universities and thousands of affiliated colleges under it, has been a failure. Read more...