By Karen MacGregor. The first Global Conference on Internationalisation of Higher Education will be held in August next year, in South Africa’s huge Kruger Park game reserve. The event flows from the first inclusive Global Dialogue held in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in January 2014, attended by 24 international education organisations from across the world. Read more...

By Karen MacGregor – Africa Editor. In Africa Analysis, Nico Cloete draws on data and arguments from a forthcoming book on the doctorate in South Africa to illustrate how unhelpful the raging ‘transformation’ of higher education debate has become. Meanwhile, there have been campus upheavals over racism and student politics, according to Munyaradzi Makoni.
Damtew Teferra criticises Times Higher Education for not including critical African players in the recent Africa Universities Summit, which included a consultation on regional university rankings.
In Africa Features, Wachira Kigotho reveals ahead of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 in New York that African delegations will push hard for robust support for tertiary education and science, technology and innovation.
This week in Commentary, Philip G Altbach argues that in the current (modest) revival of liberal arts globally, rich non-Western educational traditions have been largely ignored.
Ielyzaveta Shchepetylnykova charts challenges and progress in Ukraine’s efforts to implement the Bologna process and improve higher education data and analysis. And Marguerite Dennis and Richard Lynch contend that universities need to adopt ‘blue ocean’ thinking and strategies for a higher education future that is likely to be online and international. Read more...

By Karen MacGregor – Acting Global Editor. This week in Commentary, Philip G Altbach argues that in the current (modest) revival of liberal arts globally, rich non-Western educational traditions have been largely ignored. Ielyzaveta Shchepetylnykova charts challenges and progress in Ukraine’s efforts to implement the Bologna process and improve higher education data and analysis. Nico Cloete draws on data and arguments from a forthcoming book on the doctorate in South Africa to illustrate how unhelpful the raging ‘transformation’ of higher education debate has become.
Marguerite Dennis and Richard Lynch contend that universities need to adopt ‘blue ocean’ thinking and strategies for a higher education future that is likely to be online and international. In World Blog, Grace Karram Stephenson writes about a case in Canadian higher education where academics kicked back against ‘market forces’.
In Features, Peta Lee finds in a recent study from the European Parliament that more work needs to be done to blend online and onsite education in order to truly internationalise the learning experience. And Nic Mitchell reports on the European University Association response to the European Union’s ‘Neighbourhood Policy’. Read more...