A small high school in Africa seems to have figured out a formula to get kids into top US colleges and Ivy League universities on full scholarships. Nearly 60 students who studied at Somaliland's Abaarso School have been accepted to American and international universities since 2013, including Harvard, MIT and Carnegie Mellon, writes Alanna Petroff for CNN Money. Read more...

Cross-border delivery of higher education is becoming a financial necessity for some institutions and a strategic differentiation for others. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. A 20-year-old from the Netherlands studying at Stockholm University has become the youngest doctorate holder in Scandinavia in modern times.
The university describes him as “probably the youngest in Sweden ever to complete a PhD” and the same age to the day as the current holder of the Dutch record. Read more...

By Mike Young. When the Danish government announced cuts to education and research last September, it set off howls of protest in university circles. Read more...

By Hans de Wit. The new millennium marked a substantial shift in internationalisation of higher education, from a cooperative to a competitive paradigm, although the first signals were already apparent in countries like Australia and the United Kingdom several decades before. Read more...

By Alejandro Caballero. As mother-daughter duo Annie and Badjie Guerrero were developing Cravings*, their catering, hotel and restaurant conglomerate in the Philippines, they stumbled across a surprising obstacle to the growth of their business. Qualified cooks, it turned out, were in abundance. Read more...

By Ararat L Osipian. Hardly anyone will be surprised at news about corruption in Russian universities. Nevertheless, the arrest of the president of the Far Eastern Federal University, Sergey Ivanets, is different. Read more...

By Sigal Alon. Several countries around the world have implemented or permitted affirmative action programmes in higher education. In most of them the main criterion for eligibility is membership of specific racial and ethnic groups or castes. Read more...

By Tom P Abeles. Education in general, but post-secondary education in particular, is supposed to provide individuals with the skills to participate as citizens in the civic and cultural life of the community. Additionally, education is supposed to equip individuals with a basic – or in some cases, a specific – armamentarium to provide for their economic well-being and that of the wider community. Read more...

By Michael Gardner. German university heads have welcomed proposals by the Stifterverband – a network of foundations, businesses and individuals supporting the country’s higher education and research – for improved transparency in collaborations between universities and industry. Read more...