By Adamu A Ahmed. The recurring litany of woes from research scholars regarding research in the Middle East and North Africa, or MENA, countries includes: the absence of a solid scientific and technological base, lack of research funding, the absence of public-private linkages for research and development, an inauspicious political environment and lack of impact of research findings on the immediate community. Read more...

By Alex Usher. Governments always face a choice between access and excellence: should resources be spent narrowly on a few institutions in order to make them more ‘world class’, or should they be spread more widely in order to build capacity and increase access. Read more...

By Mark Ashwill. I spent part of a recent Sunday morning speaking to group of Vietnamese students in Hanoi who had participated in a US culture and society contest. Read more...

By Hans de Wit and Philip G Altbach. After a (too) long campaign, the presidential elections in the United States are coming to an end and on 9 November we will know who has won. Read more...

By Peter Schmidt, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Regardless of how Donald J Trump fares on Election Day, he will have profoundly altered not just American politics, but also the way many American professors teach political science. Read more...

By Paul Rigg. For the first time in Europe, a 'WOW Room', featuring a 45 square metre video wall, is available for faculty and dozens of university students around the world to interact in a single class. Read more...

By Robert Dragan. Historically, education wasn’t a right, it was a privilege. Afforded only by the better off, it took the form of personalised tutoring. The ancient Greek senators would employ a philosopher to educate and prepare their sons for the world of Greek democracy. Read more...

By Nita Temmerman. Another university academic semester is coming to a close in my part of the world. Formal student surveys to determine student satisfaction with a whole host of teaching-learning related experiences will soon be conducted. Read more...

By Steve Kolowich, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Speaking to college students in Columbus, Ohio, United States presidential nominee Donald J Trump told conservative watchers of higher education something many of them might love to hear. Read more...

By Casey O’Brien. It is a warm night in downtown Havana, Cuba, and the Malecón sea road is buzzing. It’s January, yet it’s 70 degrees. I am at a hotel I could never afford, just above the water, looking at the view with my fellow students. Read more...