The ruling Communist Party of China piloted a programme in Shandong Province by sending cadres to occupy senior positions in private universities to overhaul weak Party building and ideological work. Unlike public universities, private institutions generally do not have Party chiefs at the core of management, or any strong Party organisations, reports Xinhua. More...

The government on Friday confirmed that European Union students will continue to remain eligible for undergraduate, masters, postgraduate and advanced learner financial support in academic year 2018-19. More...

In spite of interest in the field, French research into education in African and other developing countries is badly structured and poorly supported, making its findings virtually invisible, a study reveals. More...

An academy of halieutic and marine sciences is due to open this year in Moçâmedes, initially with places for 540 students who will follow a variety of courses, the State Secretary for Fisheries, Antónia Nelumba, has announced. More...

By Anne Corbett and Claire Gordon. The Central European University, or CEU, in Budapest has long made a distinctive mark in Hungarian academic life. A postgraduate institution, founded in 1991 by George Soros as part of his post-communist Open Society initiative, it is the Hungarian university that wins the most international accolades for its research. More...

By Grace Karram Stephenson. Universities have engaged with the changes on every front: institutions taking legal action against United States President Donald Trump’s travel ban; faculty boycotting conferences in the US and students protesting against... well, pretty much everything. More...

By Jason Arday. Recent data from the Equality Challenge Unit's Equality in Higher Education: Statistical Report and its 2011 Experience of Black and Minority Ethnic Staff in HE in England report continue to reveal a dearth of diversification and a lack of representation and visibility for Black and minority ethnic or BME staff in United Kingdom universities, culminating in reduced opportunities for career progression, particularly for those wishing to pursue a career within academia. More...

By Mark Ashwill. The latest Student and Exchange Visitor Information System or SEVIS update – which contains basic information on the more than 1.2 million international students studying in the United States at all levels – is out, and many of the results, while not encouraging, are not surprising. More...

By Gary Rhoades. With profound implications for higher education, politics in the West is marked and marred by a backlash against ‘others’, against groups other than the traditionally dominant European ethnicities. Partly, that has been manifest in right-wing populist movements that have swept the world in the past year. More...

By Mohd Mizan bin Mohammad Aslam. Malaysia's Minister for Higher Education Dato' Seri Idris Jusoh stated last year that the university enrolment rate is at an all-time high with almost 40% of eligible students pursuing higher education. In contrast, only 4% of Malaysian students were enrolling in universities 40 years ago. More...