The alarming rate of violent attacks on higher education communities

By Brendan O’Malley – Managing Editor. In News Brendan O'Malley unpacks a new report by Scholars at Risk entitled Free to Think 2016, which warns of a global crisis of attacks on higher education communities, including en masse attacks and threats against individual students and staff.
In World Blog, Patrick Blessinger examines the emerging phenomenon of inclusive leadership in higher education, which focuses on changing policies and practices to create a more inclusive educational culture.
Focusing on internationalisation in our series on Transformative Leadership in which University World News is partnering with The MasterCard Foundation, James Otieno Jowi says that the African university leaders who place a premium on internationalisation are seeing that it can drive institutional transformation. Munyaradzi Makoni reports on a significant new partnership that aims to transform agricultural education throughout Africa, and Bruno Morche says that internationalisation is beginning to appear on the agendas of Latin American institutions, as they begin to recognise its transformative potential.
In Commentary, Beth Button describes a new initiative that links up student activists globally and aims to put students at the forefront of promoting cooperation and internationalisation. And Megan Clifford and Kevin Kinser suggest that leaders of international branch campuses need to agree shared goals between host and institution because the threat of diminished autonomy can threaten their sustainability and quality.
In Features, Anil Netto says public universities in Malaysia are reeling from the impact of heavy budget cuts, with research likely to be the hardest hit. And Munyaradzi Makoni reports on a speech at a global student affairs summit by Professor Adam Habib, vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand and chair of Universities South Africa, who said the current violence surrounding #FeesMustFall protests will not advance its cause, but the campaign’s aims are noble and the grievances it highlights must be addressed. Read more...