By Michael Gardner. Germany’s Student Welfare Service, or DSW, has warned that students and refugees seeking accommodation should not be played off against each other in the face of a growing shortage of affordable housing. Read more...

By Jane Marshall. Three and half years ago Sciences Po, the Paris Institute of Political Studies, one of Europe’s most prestigious public policy research and teaching institutions, was in turmoil following the sudden death of its director, Richard Descoings, and the publication of a scathing report by the state auditor into its financial management. Read more...

By Mimi Leung and Yojana Sharma. A study of researcher mobility at 28 Swedish higher education institutions provides new and detailed data on how researchers move between institutions, nationally and internationally and confirms the positive impact of mobility on publication quality. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. A study of researcher mobility at 28 Swedish higher education institutions provides new and detailed data on how researchers move between institutions, nationally and internationally and confirms the positive impact of mobility on publication quality. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Horizon 2020 is endangered by critically low application success rates due to insufficient funding at the European Union and national levels, according to a consultation among the 150 member institutions of the European University Association or EUA. Read more...

By Brendan O'Malley. Governments and institutions should ignore leading international university rankings because they are “unreliable” and “methodologically flawed”, according to a new analysis by the United Kingdom higher education think tank, the Higher Education Policy Institute or HEPI. Read more...

By Brendan O'Malley. Supporting innovation and unplugging potential in higher education in today’s low-income countries going through demographic transition, especially in Africa and South Asia, may be a much tougher challenge than it has been in other parts of the world. Read more...

By Joseph M Piro. Innovation, entrepreneurship and competitiveness have never been far from the Bologna Process agenda. From their initial mention in the original 1999 Bologna Declaration to the 2015 Ministerial meeting in Yerevan, Armenia, innovation and Bologna’s continuing commitment to it have been underscored. Read more...

By Todd Davey, Victoria Galan-Muros and Arno Meerman. In 1957, a young engineering university was founded to overcome the economic decline and support manufacturing in its region. It went on to inspire Canada’s ‘technology triangle’, the birthplace of Blackberry and in excess of 500 new technology companies. Read more...

By Paulo Savaget and Cleonir Tumelero. A lot of hope has been invested in the potentially transformative power of eco-innovations to prevent ecological disaster and nowhere more so than in Brazil. Read more...