Cross-border delivery of higher education is becoming a financial necessity for some institutions and a strategic differentiation for others. Read more...

By Dana Ruggiero. A colleague of mine recently posted a plea on an open forum asking for someone with access to please send her a copy of a journal article. This colleague works at one of the premier research institutions in the European Union which has an annual budget of over €100 million (US$113 million), yet she had to ask her connections on Facebook for access to a scholarly article. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The European Institute of Innovation and Technology, or EIT, in Budapest, Hungary, is reeling from a negative assessment by the European Court of Auditors, which says its basis of operation and experimental structure, comprising Knowledge and Innovation Communities, each involving several universities, to leverage extra funding beyond its core funding, is unrealistic. Read more...

By Margaret Andrews. A few months ago I gave a talk to an audience of business school deans and senior administrators at the Graduate Management Admission Council or GMAC Asia Pacific conference in Manila in the Philippines. Read more...

By Marcelo Knobel and Renato HL Pedrosa. The University of Campinas, or Unicamp, is a state-funded, comprehensive university. When it was founded 50 years ago, it was the second such university to be established in the state of São Paulo, the most populous and developed region of the Brazilian federation. Read more...

By Sameerah T Saeed. In the summer of 2015 the Kurdistan Regional Government, or KRG, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research introduced a National University Ranking as part of its attempts to promote higher education in the region. Read more...

By Ranjit Goswami. Two parallel forces have been shaping higher education globally of late. One is the move towards standardisation of higher education which can be observed both within the academic programmes of individual higher education institutions, or HEIs, and across HEIs in both intra- and inter-benchmarking exercises. Read more...

By Graeme Atherton. Increasing participation in higher education is seemingly a common global priority, shared by the majority of governments across the world and for those working at the global policy level. Read more...

By Michael Gardner. French, German, Dutch and United Kingdom organisations supporting international cooperation in higher education are administering a new programme funded by the European Union to facilitate access to education for Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. Read more...

By Brendan O'Malley. International education contributes nearly A$1 billion (US$764 million) more to the economy than previously estimated, according to a report by Deloitte Access Economics, commissioned by the Department of Education and Training, which was released on Friday. Read more...