The bill to convert six out of the 10 polytechnics into fully-fledged universities received the unanimous approval of Ghanaian legislators on 3 August, reports Ghana Web. Read more...

Twenty-three universities are facing enrolment shortfalls this year, with six private institutions seeing only half of their expected numbers, a trend some experts said was a direct result of the nation’s declining birth rate, write Wu Po-hsuan and Willian Hetherington for Taipei Times. Read more...

South African universities are currently struggling financially and the situation is worsened by the huge, ballooning debt owed to the institutions by students, the Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education and Training chaired by Justice Jonathan Arthur Heher heard last week, reports Africa News Agency. Read more...

Data shows that private schools extended their lead over state schools in getting pupils into England's universities after higher fees were introduced, reports Hannah Richardson for the BBC. Read more...

Over a third of all international students who graduated from Dutch universities have remained in the Netherlands five years later, according to a report from EP-Nuffic on the rate of retention of foreign students, writes Natalie Marsh for The PIE News. Read more...

An Education Trust report shows that the top 4% of colleges and universities hold three quarters of all endowment wealth in higher education, yet four in five of those 138 institutions expect the neediest families to hand over more than 60% of their income to cover the cost of attendance, writes Danielle Douglas-Gabriel for The Washington Post. Read more...

The number of Indian students going overseas for undergraduate and postgraduate studies is expected to increase by 50% over the next five years due to a manifold increase in their family incomes, reports the Press Trust of Indias. Read more...

By Claudio Bifano. It isn’t easy to understand how Venezuela has found itself in the midst of a serious economic, political and social crisis being, as it is, an oil-rich country which, between 2003 and 2014, received a huge amount of money as a result of high oil prices. Read more...

By Sean Gallagher. Over the last few years, higher education in the United States has seen countless pronouncements that the degree is dead and that “alternative credentials” are ready to supplant the core product of colleges and universities. Read more...

By Bernhard Streitwieser and Simon Morris-Lange. Four recent tragic events that happened in mid-July in Germany – the Würzburg train attack, the Munich mall shooting, the Reutlingen machete attack and the Ansbach suicide bombing – have, along with global awareness, precipitously increased Germans’ concerns about the constant threat of terrorism and homegrown radicalisation. Read more...