By Linton Besser and Peter Cronau. Australia has been gripped by a national debate over how to fund our university education. But perhaps there's a more important question: what is it worth?
A Four Corners investigation has unearthed alarming new evidence of a decline in academic standards at institutions around the country. More...

By Natalie Marsh. Malaysia’s Ministry of Education released a national ‘blueprint’ of higher education last week, which marks a new phase in the country’s efforts to compete on the higher education global scale. More...

By Dianne Therese Sencil. Chinese Ministry of Education recent statistics show that China reigns as the third top choice of foreign students worldwide, with 370,000 students from 203 countries, of which 60 percent are from Asia. 
According to statistics, there are 225,490 students from neighboring Asian countries who chose to study in China in 2014. Read more...

Seventy percent of foreign students who passed the entrance examination of the University of Tokyo’s College of Arts and Sciences for a special course to start in the autumn of the 2014 school year declined to enroll, it has been learned. 
The college granted admissions to 61 foreign applicants in the course for foreign students, but 41 of them declined to enroll at the nation’s top-notch university. Many of them are thought to have chosen other leading universities abroad. More...

By David Fickling. In Ballarat, where the first mass Chinese migration to Australia was sparked by a 19th-century gold rush, Federation University is tapping its modern equivalent.
Chinese students are flocking to Australia, making up a fifth of some 400,000 people seeking an education Down Under. At Federation, more than 44 percent of the students attending Australia’s newest university come from overseas with most paying fees that are about double those paid by locals. Read more...