By Jan Petter Myklebust. The special examiner will also identify good practice in Sweden and selected universities in other countries. Notably, these will be institutions with study programmes focusing on internationalisation at home that contribute to all those students who are not studying abroad having an international experience and an international perspective built into their education. Read more...

By Karen MacGregor. This month 17 American universities joined a court challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration. Their brief revealed the extraordinary extent of – and dependence on – internationalisation at many of the world’s top-ranked institutions. Read more...

By Hans de Wit. Over the past months, since the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States – in particular after the transition – many articles have been published about the negative impact of these two events on the internationalisation of higher education in the United States and the United Kingdom and beyond. Read more...

By Bruno Vompean and Grace Karram. The last few weeks have been tremulous for Canada. The new leadership in the United States is changing all rules and no one knows for certain how far the changes will go. In the world of higher education, universities are trying to determine what the impact will be. Read more...

By Abu Kamara. With xenophobic sentiments reaching a feverish pitch across parts of the globe, some scholars are prescribing a heavy dose of internationalisation as a potential strategy for counteracting the social, political and economic ramifications of recent developments in the United States and parts of Europe. Read more...

By Futao Huang. There has been rapid growth in the share of international faculty members in the Netherlands in the past two decades. Existing data show that in research universities alone, the proportion of international faculty members increased from 17% in 2003 to 33% of the total in 2015. Read more...

By Allen Kenneth Schaidle. We are often told that we live in a global era, driven in part by technology, globalisation and intensified international commerce. Read more...

The unions at the University of Mauritius, University of Technology, Mauritius and the Université des Mascareignes are planning to set up a student federation, reported L’Express of Port Louis. Read more...

The programme, supported by the American State Department, aims to prepare students to participate in US academic exchanges, enrol for studies in American universities and apply for jobs for which English is a criterion for selection, reported the Agence d’Information d’Afrique Centrale, or ADIAC. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. The announcement of new inspections to be conducted of the party committees of 29 top universities in China as part of the country’s anti-corruption campaign is not just about rooting out malpractice but is also the latest move by the government to tighten ideological control of universities, experts say. Read more...