By Jody Robb. Universities are among this country’s most proactive real estate developers, with property portfolio values putting them in an elite echelon, according to Bayleys’ latest Total Property magazine, which comes out today.
In examining the property credentials of New Zealand’s eight universities, Bayleys found compelling examples of how these institutions are reassessing and reorganising their property portfolios in light of a changing tertiary educational world. More...

Russia President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday the creation of a BRICS university, during the summit of the bloc underway in the Russian city of Ufa.
“Member states of the bloc have agreed to coordinate their efforts in (the area of) information security, including the Internet. There will be a network of community universities to bolster scientific and technological exchange between member states”, Putin said. More...

By James Griffiths and Ben Westcott. A number of major educational institutions in Hong Kong were allegedly affected by a major hack attack encompassing more than 100 universities and government agencies worldwide. More...

By Jung Min-ho. The government is seeking to increase the number of international students studying here from 84,000 last year to 200,000 by 2023, by pledging to make universities more foreigner-friendly.
At a Cabinet meeting, Tuesday, the Ministry of Education revealed a package of new policy initiatives to revive the once-booming trend of studying in Korea. The number of foreign students has fallen since 2011. More...

By Jean-Claude Thoenig. After decades of planning, a new generation of students and researchers will start their first full academic year in September 2015 at the University of Paris-Saclay, a huge, ambitious project to bring together a group of 19 higher education institutions alongside a business cluster on the outskirts of the French capital. It has been dubbed the French Silicon Valley. More...

By Gi-Wook Shin and Rennie Moon. Spurred on by a globalisation of higher education, over 4.5m students from around the world studied abroad in 2012, more than double the number of students a decade earlier. While the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France and Germany remain the major destination countries, hosting more than 50% of foreign students worldwide, many countries which traditionally sent students abroad have started receiving them in recent decades – especially in Asia. More...

By Vyvyan Evans. The emoji has become one of the fastest growing forms of communication in history. But those who are worried that its growth could see the death of written language are wrong – emojis are being used to enhance, rather than replace words in our digital communications. More...

By Mark Gatenby. Gaining that required qualification to put on your CV is what counts to win a job in today’s “graduate economy”. On current trends, perhaps everyone will have a degree by the end of this century. Already in Finland, a remarkable 80% of young people are now going to university. More...

By Mark Gatenby. Business schools constitute a large and growing part of higher education. They have expanded so rapidly in recent decades that they now educate one in seven undergraduates in North America and Europe. Yet despite their popularity with fee-paying students, business schools are vulnerable. More...