A group of 27 of the world’s top universities together produce more research than all but two of the world’s major industrialised nations, including Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. More...By Wagdy Sawahel and Yojana Sharma. People across Iran, including university students, have taken to the streets in widespread economic protests initially directed against price hikes of basic food supplies and gloomy economic prospects. They later included criticism of the political establishment. More...By Yojana Sharma. The Asia-Pacific Regional Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications in Higher Education, also known as the revised 2011 Tokyo Convention, lays down basic principles for recognition of higher education qualifications, including increased information and transparency, in order to smooth cross-border mobility of students, academics and professionals within the region. More...By Yojana Sharma. As a number of universities in Hong Kong change their top leadership, the comments of outgoing and incoming university heads are being closely scrutinised for their commitment to Hong Kong’s cherished freedoms, particularly academic freedom, as the city comes under increasing pressure from Beijing. More...By Yojana Sharma. The rapid growth of a movement against sexual harassment on university campuses has left the Chinese authorities grappling with wanting to be seen to act decisively while trying to quell the rise in online letters and petitions, since they regard with suspicion feminist activists that attempt to challenge the state. More...By Yojana Sharma. The Association of Pacific Rim Universities, or APRU, set up in 1997, is a consortium of leading universities in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC, area. It has a membership of some 50 top research universities in Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia and the United States, as well as in Asia, including in China. More...By Yojana Sharma. Bertil Andersson became president of Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University or NTU in 2011. He had first joined NTU as provost in 2007, after being chief executive of the European Science Foundation. As he leaves his post in January 2018, he looks back in this interview with University World News Asia Editor Yojana Sharma at 10 years of higher education in Singapore, the dramatic changes in the research and higher education landscape and the rise of Singapore’s research universities in global rankings. More...By Wondwosen Tamrat and Damtew Teferra. Interest and involvement in the internationalisation of higher education are unavoidably on the rise across both the developed and developing worlds. In both contexts, institutions are increasingly enticed to conform to this emerging trend. However, differences abound due to the influence of contextual factors such as prevailing needs, capacity, resources, institutional status and ambitions. More...By Rosemary Salomone. The South African Constitutional Court’s recent decision upholding the University of the Free State’s move toward English courses, though intended to ease racial tensions and promote integration, is long on memory but short on constitutional vision for language rights across the education spectrum. More...By Rebecca Schendel. In early September, Third World Quarterly (a peer-reviewed development studies journal) published an essay by Bruce Gilley, associate professor of political science at Portland State University in the United States, entitled ‘The Case for Colonialism’, which argued for a return to Western colonialism as a solution to the problems facing weak and fragile states. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
