By Rahul Choudaha. Many international educators who dedicate their professional lives to building bridges of mutual respect and trust around the world are still processing the impact of this jolt. Broadly speaking, internationalisation is about infusing diverse perspectives and experiences from nations and cultures on all aspects of higher education. Read more...

By Nita Temmerman. If you read the introduction to most university degree programme websites, they tell prospective students they offer the most innovative, exciting, contemporary, well-respected programme of its kind in that field anywhere. Read more...

By Robert M Hollister. At the recent University Social Responsibility, or USR, Summit in Beijing, an international group of higher education leaders demonstrated the impressive and growing Asian leadership in the expanding global movement beyond the ivory tower. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Denmark is hoping to become one of the leading Arctic higher education and research nations, according to Minister of Higher Education and Science Ulla Tørnæs, who earlier this month presented a new Danish strategy for prioritising work on Arctic issues in the years ahead. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. European research networking has been strengthened with a decision on Thursday to expand the League of European Research Universities or LERU to 23 members – with the addition of the University of Copenhagen and Trinity College Dublin from 1 January next year – and the launch in Brussels on 21 November of the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The inward migration of foreign experts, including university teachers and researchers, is good business for Denmark regardless if they are coming from India, China or Germany, according to a new analysis of Danish registry statistics – among the most complete in the world. Read more...

By Brendan O'Malley. A European University Association or EUA board member has become the first rector to lose their job under new state of emergency decrees (675 and 676), which were issued at the end of October as part of the government’s ongoing response to the failed coup attempt on 15 July this year. Read more...

By Brendan O'Malley. The government should make an immediate commitment to exempt European Union scientists and researchers already working in the United Kingdom from wider potential immigration controls, and include measures to attract skilled researchers during the Brexit negotiations, Members of Parliament or MPs on the Science and Technology Committee have demanded. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. Two Australian universities with branches in Malaysia have become embroiled in a row over written warnings to students of disciplinary action if they are found attending “illegal gatherings” – a reference to major anti-government rallies in different parts of the country at the weekend. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. Huge investment in higher education research and development in Malaysian universities since 2000 has not led to qualitative gains and increased innovation that would help boost a flagging economy and close the skills gap in the country, a new report on innovation policies by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development or OECD has said. Read more...