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By Jan Petter Myklebust. Two leading members of the Liberal Party in the City of Stockholm Council, Opposition Vice-Mayor Lotta Edholm and elected representative Richard Bengtsson, have called for the establishment of a branch of a world-leading foreign university in Stockholm. Read more...

By Maina Waruru. The fate of eight satellite university campuses established in the Kenyan capital Nairobi’s central business district hangs in the balance after the higher education regulatory body, the Commission for University Education or CUE, issued a six-month closure notice. Read more...

By Mushfique Wadud. A government decision to charge 7.5% Value Added Tax or VAT on private universities, medical and engineering colleges has sparked anger among students who say it will hit middle and lower income families and curb the basic right to education. Read more...

By Brendan O'Malley. European member states have taken an important step towards negotiating a unitary patent – a key development for stimulating research, development and investment in innovation – by agreeing a rate for the renewal fee. Read more...

By Mary Beth Marklein. Applications from foreign students to US graduate programmes increased 2% to a record 676,484 this year, driven primarily by a 12% upswing in numbers from India but tempered by a 2% drop from China, a preliminary report says. Read more...

By William Patrick Leonard. English is the reigning bridge language or lingua franca in nearly all human endeavours that cross national borders. A nation’s education sector is no exception. Preparatory English instruction and its subsequent use as the Mode of Instruction, or MoI, in a nation’s educational policy and institutional curricula may serve as expressions of its commitment to globalisation. Read more...

By Peter Tindemans. EuroScience is Europe’s grassroots organisation of scientists, which is working increasingly with similar organisations across the world such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, the Indian Science Congress Association, the Brazilian Society for the Promotion of Science, and also the Japan Science and Technology Agency. Read more...

By Michael Gardner. The German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD, celebrated its 90th anniversary this month. While playing a key role in the academic world, the organisation is also an important player in the field of diplomacy.
Today, the DAAD or Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst is the world’s largest organisation supporting academic exchange. It maintains a total of 15 branches as well as 56 information centres abroad, and has supported two million students and academics, just under a third of them incoming, enrolling for a semester or doing research at a German university. Read more...

By Brendan O'Malley. On 15 January 2014, Chinese police raided the home of Ilham Tohti, a Chinese economics professor and advocate for the rights of the Uighur ethnic minority group. They seized computers, mobile phones, passports and students’ essays. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The Council of State has ordered the merging of 11 higher education institutions into four new institutions, thereby establishing the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, or NTNU, as the largest university in Norway. Read more...