Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has invoked Section 44 of the interim constitution to tackle chronic problems in the tertiary education sector, writes Dumrongkiat Mala for Bangkok Post. More...

Ethiopia’s government has blocked access to social networks throughout the country, an unprecedented measure it has justified by the need to prevent fraud during the period of university exams. More...

A fight over a tree between students from two higher education institutions that share premises resulted in 13 serious casualties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More...

Two new university institutes in Algeria, one specialising in social sciences and the other in sports activities, will be completed in Ghardaïa before the end of October. They will improve higher education conditions and relieve pressure on lecture halls. More...

By Ruwayshid Alruwaili. Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are growing in size and quality and Saudi Arabia is not exempt from this phenomenon. However, government regulations and laws limit the benefits Saudi people can derive from MOOC platforms, and need to be amended. More...

By Defta Oktafiga. As higher education thrives globally, Indonesian universities need to have an appropriate framework grounded in the country’s context. The global aspiration of having world-class universities has apparently become the ultimate framework for most Indonesian universities since the beginning of the 2000s. More...

By Mark Ashwill. Congratulations to Hoang Minh Tue, a Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted student who was awarded a full scholarship worth US$72,000 a year to attend Duke University in the United States, which ranks eighth according to the 2016 US News & World Report Best Colleges report. More...

By Robert Coelen and Jiang Bo. We wrote last year that China was on a fast track to internationalisation of education. Although the term ‘internationalisation of education’ – in Chinese Pin Yin: jiao yu guo ji hua – was first officially used in government documentation in 2010 as part of the National Medium- and Long-Term Education Reform and Development Plan 2010-20, the nature of this fast track is becoming clear and is based on an innovation-driven development strategy, as determined by China’s recent 2016 National Conference on Innovation and Science/Technology. More...

By Cristina González and Liliana Pedraja. The release of the Times Higher Education or THE ranking of Latin American universities in early July bodes well for the development of higher education in the region and is a timely reminder of the need to strengthen institutional management capability. Rankings have become a catalyst for institutional change. More...

By Angel Calderon. The release of the Times Higher Education or THE ranking of Latin American universities in early July bodes well for the development of higher education in the region and is a timely reminder of the need to strengthen institutional management capability. Rankings have become a catalyst for institutional change. More...