By Pushkar. At the recent convocation ceremony of Shiv Nadar University, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan spoke briefly about private universities, noting that good quality education was expensive and it was necessary to find ways “to make degrees affordable”. More importantly, he said: “We also should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.” Read more...

By Margaret Andrews. While estimates for the amount spent on leadership development vary widely, leadership education and development is big business. TrainingIndustry.com estimates that corporate spending on training (including both insourced and outsourced spend for all types of training, not just for management and leadership education) was US$356 billion in 2015. Read more...

By Mushfique Wadud. Eight mainly religion-based university and school student organisations have come together in Bangladesh to protest against a proposed education law, which they fear could undermine the country’s Islamic education system, bringing it under secular government oversight. Read more...

By Nic Mitchell. The growth of transnational education, or TNE, must go hand in hand with an increase in quality, according to a panel of experts taking part in a webinar on the future of cross-border higher education. Read more...

By Gilbert Nganga. Kenya is mulling over new university guidelines that will require masters students to publish at least one article in a refereed journal before being eligible to graduate. Read more...

By María Elena Hurtado. Three technology transfer hubs are being set up by Chilean universities in a bid to substantially increase their applied research as well as to market it at home and abroad. Read more...

By Karen MacGregor. Plans are afoot to launch a Global Higher Education Access and Diversity Consortium next year, bringing together universities and civil society groups from around the world to advocate, show leadership and share best practice around these globally pertinent issues. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. Concern over the impact on participation in Europe’s prestigious Horizon 2020 research projects is shifting Swiss public opinion on free movement of workers from the European Union to a more pragmatic view, two years after the Swiss referendum “against mass immigration” in February 2014. Read more...

By Maarja Beerkens. As international linkages are more and more visible in everyday life and work, many countries have articulated an ambition to expose students more extensively to an international experience during their studies. Read more...

By Liva Vikmane and Alexandra Antonescu. Many students in Europe have been and are still negatively affected by austerity measures and budget cuts in the education sector. For publicly funded higher education systems in Europe, excessive budget cuts ‘justified’ by the difficult economic times have, in many countries, led to poor education quality and an increasingly broken social ladder. Read more...