By Yossef Ben-Meir, Mouhssine Tadlaoui-Cherki and Kati Roumani. Vulnerability is a common denominator shared by many people in Morocco, including students and recent, jobless graduates and youthful, former prison detainees. Read more...

By Nita Temmerman. Academic governance is a fundamental element of a higher education provider’s all-encompassing governance structure. If it’s not effective, it calls into question the whole academic framework for verifying quality and integrity in teaching, learning and scholarship in that institution. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Would any of our current systems have funded a young Albert Einstein or a Marie Sklodowska-Curie? The question was posed to the informal meeting of the Council of Ministers responsible for Competitiveness (Research) under the incoming Slovak Presidency of the Council of the European Union, last month by excellent young researchers. Read more...

By John Gerritsen. New Zealand’s government has launched a NZ$70 million (US$49 million) plan to attract top researchers to the nation’s universities over the next four years. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. A survey of academics in the United Kingdom has found that some world-class scientists have already turned down posts at universities in the UK since the referendum in June that voted in favour of Britain leaving the European Union and one in five were planning to leave UK research posts, citing Brexit as the reason. Read more...

By Mary Beth Marklein. Alarmed by the growing frequency of news reports about academic corruption, an international panel of experts is calling for "action on a broad front" to combat the problem, arguing that dishonest practices are "undermining the quality and credibility of higher education around the world". Read more...

By Ranjit Devraj. Internationalising India’s higher education is high on the agenda for India’s new Minister for Human Resource Development or HRD, Prakash Javadekar. Read more...

A partnership agreement to strengthen research and education has been signed between the regional council of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco’s higher education and research ministry and three Rabat universities. Read more...

Algeria’s Higher Education and Scientific Research Minister Tahar Hadjar said his ministry had brought together “all necessary human and material resources” to ensure the enrolment process for new students would run smoothly. Meanwhile, the University of Ouargla has announced 156 new doctoral positions across a range of fields in the new academic year. Read more...

By Francis Kokutse. Public health officials announced the outbreak of Ebola in May 2014. This led to the closure of schools and universities throughout the country. By 9 January 2015, the number of cases was more than 10,000 with about 3,029 deaths and the epidemic had devastated the economy. Read more...