Universities Australia has launched a new policy statement called “Keep it Clever”, urging for major investment in research and innovation throughout Australia’s higher education sector.
The organisation released a pre-election blueprint in a speech to the National Press Club that did not mention fee deregulation or higher student fees, but did declare that the sector’s recent “funding limbo” has produced “intolerable instability”. More...

U.S. News & World Report, publisher of Best Colleges for more than 30 years, today released the 2016 edition of the Best Global Universities. The rankings help students evaluate higher education options worldwide as well as by region, country and subject. U.S. universities remain the global leaders among research institutions, with Harvard University claiming No. 1, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at No. 2, the University of California—Berkeley at No. 3 and Stanford University at No. 4. U.K. universities take the next top spots with the University of Oxford at No. 5, followed by the University of Cambridge at No. 6. More...

By Susannah Snider. For U.S. students, several flights home each semester can add up after four years at an overseas university. More...

By Andrew Norton. Christopher Pyne's surprise launch of fee deregulation and the confused mix of reforms and cuts meant unis had no chance to make a case to students, writes Andrew Norton. More...

The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria in an effort to increase the number of Nigerian students studying in America will convene its 16th annual ‘Education USA College Fair’ between Oct. 7 and 8 in Abuja.
This is contained in a statement by the Public Affairs Section of U.S. Embassy on Monday in Abuja.
The statement said that Nigerian students’ enrollment in the U.S. higher education institutions had increased more than 25 per cent in the past five years. More...

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The new role of universities in promoting innovation and supporting the growth and development of today's knowledge based society will be the central theme of the second MENA Higher Education Leadership Forum taking place in Abu Dhabi from 9-11 November.
Higher education leaders and decision makers from 50 countries across the region and worldwide will assemble at the Dusit Thani Abu-Dhabi for the event which is being held under the patronage of H.E. Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture, Youth, and Community. More...

By Te Pokai Tara. The International Student Barometer Survey has found that 90% of international students studying at a New Zealand university are satisfied with their study experience here.
The independent survey, commissioned by Education New Zealand, investigated the expectations, perceptions and experiences of over 6000 international students from all eight universities. It is part of a world-wide study which compares the experience of international students across different countries. More...

Since the 1990s, it is said, Australian universities have become ever more under-funded and over-reliant on fee income. Internationally we seem to lag our peers, as governments short-change the sector, our students and society.
Some claim that in 2011 Australia’s public spending on universities “ranked thirty-third out of the thirty-four OECD member countries”. While governments across the OECD spent an average of 1.1% of their GDP, Australia spent just 0.7%. However the story is not so simple. More...

The Council of Europe  launched at the Charles University on Oct. 1 a new “platform” to fight corruption in education: the Pan-European Platform on Ethics, Transparency and Integrity in Education (ETINED).
The platform will be made up of a network of specialists from the 50 states, which are parties to the European Cultural Convention of the Council of Europe. These specialists will cooperate with other international organizations and agencies engaged in the field, from Transparency International to UNESCO. More...