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By Goolam Mohamedbhai. The recent findings of the Inter-University Council for East Africa regarding the quality of graduates in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda must be considered a wake-up call for African higher education. Between 51% and 63% of graduates from these countries were found to be ‘half-baked’ according to the employers. This is, to put it mildly, alarming. More...

By Peta Lee. The number of students studying for a British transnational education award in the United Arab Emirates, or UAE, has seen astonishing growth over the past few years. This includes a 37% increase in students during the past two years – bringing to 15,000 the number studying there for United Kingdom awards. More...

By Nic Mitchell. As demand for full-time English undergraduate education continues to confound the prophets of doom by going up this year – despite the near three-fold increase in tuition fees – concern is mounting at falling applications for postgraduate courses, especially from British students. More...

By Junya Ogasawara. Our society is becoming more connected and complicated every day in this era of globalisation, and every country faces so-called global issues such as poverty, human rights, and educational or environment problems, whether directly or indirectly. More...

By Matthew Zingraff and Anne Schiller. International student mobility is on the rise. East Asian students are particularly mobile, and the number electing to remain within the region is growing. Regional education hubs are a means to compete for internationally mobile students. More...

By Gulsun Saglamer. The European Commission’s She Figures, which present statistics on gender equality in science, show that women stand less chance of reaching senior levels in higher education and research institutions and also of holding positions of influence through membership of scientific boards. More...

By Yojana Sharma. Chancellor of JF Oberlin University in Tokyo Dr Toyoshi Satow took over the three-year presidency of the International Association of University Presidents at its 2014 conference held in Yokohama in Japan. He outlined his vision for the IAUP, known as the ‘global voice of higher education’. More...

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. The development of innovation and technology in higher education to meet the world’s rapidly changing needs emerged as the main focus of higher education leaders who gathered in Japan’s port city of Yokohama for the conference of the International Association of University Presidents, or IAUP. More...

By Wachira Kigotho. Higher education has the capacity to become a major liberating force against an epidemic of gender-based violence and systemic poverty, says a key World Bank report that sheds new light on social and economic constraints facing women and girls worldwide.
The May report, Voice and Agency: Empowering women and girls for shared prosperity, distils vast data from 128 countries and provides a view on how higher education could reduce the deprivations that prevent women from achieving their potential. More...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The pilot project in which nine Finnish universities and 10 polytechnics charged tuition fees from some non-European masters students closes at the end of this year. But already most of the institutions have announced that they will not claim fees from students admitted this coming autumn. More...