By Rajani Naidoo. It is clearly very important for universities to contribute to their cities, regions and countries. However, many of the major issues facing humankind such as the destruction of the environment, rising inequality and violence across borders can only be solved by countries and universities working together. In this sense, the question of how higher education contributes to global wellbeing becomes very important. Read more...

By Ivan Sterligov, Alfiya Enikeeva and Victor Trofimov. The disciplinary structure of various nations’ publication output has long attracted attention of scholars and policy analysts alike. It is commonly understood that this structure is influenced by culture, geography and the political regime of a given country, but several studies show that, for leading countries, this structure is often similar. Read more...

By Cecilia Pellosniemi. The new Finnish government is truly making an effort to internationalise its higher education system: tuition fees for non-European Union/European Economic Area students are going to be introduced over the next couple of years and the funding incentives for universities to have international degree programmes are likely to be scrapped. Read more...

By Anand Kulkarni and Angel Calderon. Increasingly, countries are searching for new sources of growth to maintain and improve living standards, create sustainable employment, diversify their industrial base and address critical challenges of growing and ageing populations, among many challenges. Read more...

By Nic Mitchell. The report New Routes to Higher Education: The global rise of foundation programmes from Dutch-based StudyPortals and Cambridge English also predicts a slowing down of outbound students from China going to the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. University access for refugees has become a major challenge for countries in Asia, which like Europe, are seeing an influx of more educated and aspirant refugees. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. A global research initiative – the Global Access Map project – is examining the types of social data on students that are available across the world as a preliminary to devising a global equity index to compare the social composition of the student body within and across countries, the Global Access to Post-Secondary Education, or GAPS, conference heard last week. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. As policy-makers and economists increasingly make a connection between a highly educated population and gains in productivity, economic development and growth, many countries are promoting rapid expansion of higher education. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The scientific impact of Danish publications linked to the European Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes is “outstanding”, according to a ministry report. Read more...

Australia’s universities are calling for a bold new research and innovation investment strategy, arguing that it is vital to the economic transformation that the government and opposition parties both say the country must make. Read more...