On the invitation of Turkish Council of Higher Education, a two-member delegation of the Pakistani Higher Education Commission, led by Commission Chair Professor Mukhtar Ahmed, visited Ankara to sign a document of understanding for providing 80 PhD slots to Pakistani students in top ranked Turkish universities, writes Myra Imran for The News. More...
The University of Melbourne has renamed the prominent Richard Berry building for maths and statistics at its main entrance. The move comes after a long anti-racism campaign by a group of staff and students, writes Marika Dobbin Thomas for The Age. More...
Students are being told to drop ‘safe spaces’ and no-platform policies as the universities and science minister is ordering universities to protect freedom of speech, writes Katie French for the Mail Online. More...
State Minister of Higher Education Mohan Lal Grero has said the government supports the establishment of private universities in light of the fact that over 150,000 students qualify for university admission annually, but only 27,000 or one-sixth can be accommodated in state-run universities, writes Dasun Edirisinghe for The Island. More...
The Trump administration may be planning to help pay for a massive 18% cut to the National Institutes of Health by slashing payments to universities and research institutes for overhead costs, writes Jocelyn Kaiser for ScienceInsider. More...
Across Japan, early-career researchers face an uncertain future, as universities reduce the number of permanent staff positions and shunt more faculty into short-term contracts, writes Ichiko Fuyuno for NatureIndex. More...
A new report concludes that France is lagging behind in transnational education and needs a new national strategy to expand its market share of higher education programming abroad, reports ICEF Monitor. More...
The Ministry of Education has come under criticism for not revealing the names of the universities it found to have signed agreements with Chinese institutions to censor course material, write Lin Hsiao-yun and William Hetherington for Taipei Times. More...
At a time when many American universities are reporting declines in applications from international students, some universities north of the border are seeing increases on the magnitude of 20% or more, writes Elizabeth Redden for Inside Higher Ed. More...
An online distance programme to train managers for small and medium businesses and industries has been officially launched in Dakar, Senegal, under a partnership between Centre Africain d’Etudes Supérieures en Gestion or CESAG – the African Centre for Higher Studies in Management – and the Total Group. More...
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