By Judith Eaton. The Advisory Statement for Effective International Practice: Combatting corruption and enhancing integrity – recently published by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation's International Quality Group or CHEA-CIQG, and the International Institute for Educational Planning or IIEP-UNESCO – was, in many ways, a significant gamble. Read more...

By Michelle Paterson – Acting Editor. In a series on ‘Transformative Leadership’ in which University World News is partnering with The MasterCard Foundation, Judith Eaton, who leads one of the international organisations that have taken a stand against academic corruption and issued an advisory statement, says the gains that could be made have far outweighed the risks.
In Commentary, Tom P Abeles points to how universities are evolving, with academia shifting to competency as a measure both of faculty and students. Ranjit Goswami says the model curriculum idea proposed in India will not provide a quick fix to raising higher education quality in an era of mass expansion in enrolment.
In World Blog, Hans de Wit, Andrés Bernasconi and Daniela Véliz-Calderón find in a recent study that Catholic universities are in a state of flux not only with regard to their internationalisation strategies but also in their understanding of what it means to be a Catholic university in the world today.
In Features, Nic Mitchell reports that British universities are looking at expanding transnational education on the European mainland amid fears that there could be a dramatic decline in European student numbers in Britain post-Brexit. And following the publication last week of Australia’s Good Universities Guide, Geoff Maslen looks at the proliferation of good university guides across the world.
Last but not least, University World News was the media partner for the first Global Conference on the Internationalisation of Higher Education, held in late August in the Kruger National Park in South Africa. In a Special Report, Karen MacGregor writes that the idea was to create an inclusive platform where voices from the global South and North would carry equal weight in an internationalisation debate. Read more...