By Michael Gardner. Whereas overall numbers of refugees entering Germany have been on the decline since last year, significantly more of them have enrolled for university courses in recent months, says a survey by the German Rectors' Conference or HRK. More...

By Karin Fischer, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Yet again a Trump administration executive order has the potential to roil American campuses and their recruitment of international students. More...

By Ameen Amjad Khan. Pakistan's apex court has started hearing the case of horrific lynching of Mashal Khan, a 23-year-old Mass Communication student of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the north-west. More...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Minister of Higher Education and Science Søren Pind has dropped the ministry’s controversial proposal to select the heads of the governing boards of universities after an agreement in parliament with the Danish People’s Party and the Social Democratic Party. More...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The Swedish government has changed the university law to ensure every doctoral candidate is made an employee of the university with a salary. This should strengthen the position of foreign PhD students, who make up more than half of the country’s 19,000 doctoral candidates. More...

By Jan Petter Myklebust and Brendan O’Malley. A secretary of state has demanded that a PhD student give up his grant because of views he gave to a magazine questioning the value to society of people with Down’s Syndrome. More...

By Brendan O'Malley. The government has agreed to address concerns raised by universities over proposed changes to 457 work visas, Universities Australia said on Thursday. The Group of Eight or Go8, comprising Australia’s eight leading research-intensive universities, voiced fears that the changes would put at risk Australia’s AU$21.8 billion (US$16 billion) international education industry. More...

By Brendan O'Malley. UNESCO has called on governments never to allow student loan repayments to rise above 15% of their monthly incomes so that further expansion of higher education does not leave the disadvantaged behind. More...

By Munyaradzi Makoni. The African Academy of Sciences, or AAS, founded in 1985, aspires to shape the continent’s strategies and policies and implement key science, technology and innovation programmes. More...

By Tunde Fatunde. The country’s academic community was an active part of the successful bid to stop the current president, Patrice Talon, from altering the nation’s constitution in order to arguably give more powers to the president and erode those of the judiciary and legislature. More...