By Simon Marginson. Since World War II international higher education has been led by English-speaking countries, especially the United States. The near hegemony of the Atlantic countries in the university sector has exceeded their role in the trading and financial economies. But nothing lasts forever. Read more...

By Hans de Wit. Eighteen years ago, in 1996, I took the initiative of creating a scholarly journal to stimulate research on internationalisation of higher education and its dissemination. In Spring 1997 the first issue of the Journal of Studies in International Education was published by the Council on International Educational Exchange, or CIEE, in the United States, in cooperation with the European Association for International Education, or EAIE.
I started as chair of the editorial board of the journal, and from volume 2, number 1, Spring 1998 until volume 17, number 5, November 2013, I had the pleasure of being its editor.
Until the start of the Journal of Studies in International Education, there was no scholarly journal that focused exclusively on the study of international education and articles on this theme were rather limited in other journals on comparative and higher education. Read more...

By David Jobbins. Ethnicity appears to have a greater effect on students' performance at university than gender, disadvantaged background or the type of school attended, according to research published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, or HEFCE, last week. The analysis shows a significant link between factors such as ethnicity, gender and school type and achievement in higher education. Read more...

By Raghavendra Verma. Indian academics and university students are fiercely defending their right to use copyrighted reading material for free as Indian publishers intensify their fight against the photocopying and organised counterfeiting of books. Read more...

By Alya Mishra. As the countdown to India's 2014 parliamentary elections begins, academics and social experts are cautious about predicting drastic change in education policy by any government that comes to power in New Delhi. Read more...

By Wagdy Sawahel. A unified model for the governance of Arab universities has been proposed, as part of efforts to improve their operation and development. The 22 Arab states have more than 500 universities in eight countries in Africa, six in the Arabian Gulf and eight in Asia. The initiative aimed at tackling Arab higher education challenges, especially in management and organisation, was tabled by the Jordan-based Middle East University at the General Conference of the Association of Arab Universities held in Amman, Jordan, last week. Read more...

By Geoff Maslen. In the biggest project of its kind in the southern hemisphere, RMIT University in Melbourne will spend A$98 million (US$90 million) to cut energy and water use as well as greenhouse gas emissions. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. China has announced a new round of inspections of science and technology departments in universities, the third 'special inspection' tour to be sanctioned by the Communist Party in recent months in its bid to clamp down on research fund embezzlement and other corrupt practices plaguing high-spending research departments. Read more...

By Wachira Kigotho. A World Bank assessment of Sub-Saharan Africa's high-level skills has revealed critical shortages in both numbers and quality - and African universities must share the blame for not meeting the workforce needs of the continent. Read more...

By Fortune Sylivester. Nearly 100 staff at the University of Dar es Salaam have benefited from a German government-supported initiative to assist staff to obtain postgraduate degrees, as the institution pushes to improve the qualifications of its academics. The 98 scholarships through DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service, have contributed significantly to the number of PhD holders among faculty at the country's oldest higher education institution since the initiative was launched in 2002. Read more...