The University of Wollongong has come under fire from members of the medical profession over a thesis claiming collusion between the World Health Organization and the pharmaceutical industry, writes Emily Laurence for ABC News. Read more...

Oxford University cannot rewrite history to pander to "contemporary views and prejudices", its chancellor has warned. Lord Chris Patten, the former Conservative chairman, defended Oxford's historical relationship with Cecil Rhodes saying that many of the university's scholars depended on activities that would be "unacceptable" in the modern world, writes Javier Espinoza for the Telegraph. Read more...

President Michelle Bachelet said last week that free higher education in Chile, which will come into effect in 2016 after 35 years during which all students paid tuition, "is a right, not a gift", reports Latino Fox News. Read more...

The ministry of education and training’s latest circular, which sets limitations on the number of full-time students at universities, has stirred controversy. However, many experts have defended the decision, reports VietNamNet Bridge. Read more...

Chinese universities have agreed to expand annual enrolments of ethnic minority students from the tension-fraught western region of Xinjiang to 10,000 by 2020, up from the current year's 6,800, reports Associated Press. Read more...

By Nicola Jenvey. As higher education systems and institutions seek to internationalise, there can be no denying the centrality of faculty to these efforts. The drivers of teaching and research, faculty are the lynch-pin of the academic enterprise. Their commitment and engagement are critical to the success of any campus-wide initiative – internationalisation included. Read more...

By Robin Matross Helms. As higher education systems and institutions seek to internationalise, there can be no denying the centrality of faculty to these efforts. The drivers of teaching and research, faculty are the lynch-pin of the academic enterprise. Their commitment and engagement are critical to the success of any campus-wide initiative – internationalisation included. Read more...

By Tapas R Dash. Cambodia has had a turbulent past, which has included many dramatic transitions. Several of these transitions have had serious implications for education. However, education activities were revived during the 1980s and have taken a new direction since the early 1990s. Over the last decade, higher education in Cambodia has witnessed phenomenal expansion due to the increasing attention given to it by both the government and the private sector. Read more...

By Mark Ashwill. There are currently 1.2 million international students studying in the United States, nearly 75% of whom are enrolled in bachelor, masters or doctoral programmes. California, New York and Texas enrol 36% of all students. Some 919,484 of them, or 77% of the total, are from Asia. Compared to July 2015, the total number of active international students studying in the US increased 13.3%. Read more...

By Francisco Marmolejo. It is beyond doubt that rankings have become a significant part of the tertiary education landscape, both globally and locally. They have risen in importance and proliferated in unimaginable ways. Rankings have become commercialised and, with this, so has the sophistication of the companies and organisations that rank colleges and universities. Read more...