Applications from European Union students for places at United Kingdom universities have dropped by more than 7%, according to latest figures, a committee of MPs investigating the impact of Brexit on higher education has been told, write Sally Weale and Caelainn Barr for the Guardian. More...

US President Donald Trump has now paid US$25 million to settle three lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University, signalling that a judge’s approval of a settlement agreement remains on track for 30 March, writes Elliot Spagat for Associated Press. More...

As part of its Transformative Leadership series published in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation, University World News is joining DrEducation to host a free international webinar on 8 February 2017 at 9am New York time, 2pm London time and 4pm Johannesburg time.
The debate topic is "Are universities crucibles of transformative leadership?" More...

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, or APU, located in Beppu, a quiet hot spring resort town in southern Kyushu, took the plunge to establish a global campus in 2000 as an initiative by Ritsumeikan University, a leading private university in Kyoto. More...

By Marcelo Knobel and Andrés Bernasconi. In 2018, Latin American universities will commemorate the centennial of the Córdoba University Reform. This movement, and its aftermath, changed the idea of the university in Latin America, and ushered in an era of optimism about the social relevance of universities at the beginning of the 20th century. More...

By Ararat Osipian. On 21 December 2016 the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, announced charges against Umair Hamid, one of the alleged co-conspirators and masterminds behind a worldwide web of many dozens or even hundreds of online diploma mills linked to Axact, a Pakistani IT company. More...

By Graeme Atherton. The importance of the nation state in shaping the politics of the late 2010s is clear, with populist forces changing the political landscape across the world. More...

By Karin Fischer, The Chronicle of Higher Education. President Donald Trump, who proposed banning Muslim visitors to the United States during his campaign, is expected to indefinitely halt resettlement of Syrian refugees in the country and to temporarily suspend all travel from a half dozen countries with Muslim majorities. More...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The introduction of tuition fees for foreign students had only a marginal effect upon the more than SEK23 billion (US$2.6 billion) higher education budget in 2015. But it has been a game-changer at the vast majority of Swedish higher education institutions, which now take internationalisation work more seriously. More...