Two of Sydney's most prestigious universities have the state's most dissatisfied students, a survey of 145,000 Australian university students has found, writes Eryk Bagshaw for The Sydney Morning Herald. Read more...

A group of Nobel laureates visited sanctions-bound North Korea despite objections from South Korea, saying they wanted to extend an olive branch by bringing non-political, academic diplomacy to the isolated nuclear-armed state, reports Reuters. Read more...

Scottish universities are increasingly relying on income from tuition fees rather than public funding, prompting warnings that a two-tier system is being created, writes Andrew Denholm for Herald Scotland. Read more...

Students who join Harvard’s male-only social clubs won’t be able to serve as sports captains or leaders of other campus groups starting in autumn 2017, writes Collin Binkley for Associated Press. Read more...

Several Swedish colleges and universities are charging students who hope to come to Sweden to study from outside the European Union thousands of krona in tuition fees, even when the students never actually make it to Sweden, reports Swedish Radio News. Read more...

Major changes are coursing through France’s research and higher education system, many of them intended to simplify bureaucracy and promote research excellence, writes Declan Butler for Nature. Read more...

More Singaporean students are expected to head to Australian universities to pursue higher education following Singapore’s recent decision to recognise more Australian degrees in the fields of law, medicine and allied health, as part of the Singapore-Australia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, writes Hetty Musfirah Abdul Khamid for Channel News Asia. Read more...

Decades of brutal military rule destroyed the country’s higher education system but the co-ruling National League for Democracy has long said that education reform is a top priority. The new government of President Htin Kyaw and his Minister of Education Myo Thein Gyi are now faced with the daunting task of rebuilding a higher education system that until the 1962 army coup was considered among the best in Asia, write Htet Khaung Linn and Ei Cherry Aung for Myanmar Now. Read more...

No doubt the ‘leave’ campaign will disagree, but universities would be among the most vulnerable public bodies if Britons were to vote to break ties with the European Union in the forthcoming EU membership referendum, reports the Financial Times. Read more...

Parliament’s portfolio committee on higher education and training last week adopted the bill that critics say will give the state sweeping powers over universities and colleges, writes Bekezela Phakathi for Times Live. Read more...