Indonesia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has urged universities to attract students from African countries to pursue their education in Indonesia, reports Antara News. Read more...

By Rebecca Warden. In the new Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, education is a stand-alone goal and higher education does get a mention. Read more...

By Anna Notaro. In October 2013 I wrote a blog post, "Knocking on Europe’s Door", following the tragic loss of over 300 migrants’ lives off the coast of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa. Sadly, Lampedusa has proven not to be an isolated tragedy. Read more...

By Philip G Altbach. It was striking that the headline on the first page of China Daily on 6 October was “China wins first Nobel Prize in Medicine”. Actually, Dr Tu Youyou of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine won the prize, not the country. Read more...

By Edward Byrne. The Times Higher Education, or THE World University Rankings, announced at the end of September, with their rival QS and Shanghai rankings, have become increasingly important as measures of the quality and rank of the world's universities. Read more...

By Ly Pham. Over the past two decades, the number of universities and colleges in Vietnam has increased fourfold reaching 425, and the number of higher education students has increased by 13 times. The gross enrolment ratio in tertiary education was 2% in 1991 and 25% in 2013. Read more...

By Richard Holmes. The latest edition of the Times Higher Education, or THE, World University Rankings has just been published, along with a big dose of self-flattery and congratulations to the winners of what is beginning to look more like a lottery than an objective exercise in comparative assessment. Read more...

By Waldemar Siwinski. There can be no question about it, university rankings evoke emotions. Phil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, often starts his presentation quoting a high-ranking Chinese official who once called him the “education secretary of the world”. Modesty aside, this illustrates how seriously academic rankings are taken. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. Asia is becoming a ‘third pole’ in higher education, as the bipolar world of higher education previously dominated by Europe and North America is set to change, a conference organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, and the Singapore government heard last week. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. China has announced a new scheme, likely to be backed by billions of dollars of funding, to ensure its elite universities rise into the global club of world-class universities. Read more...