Both Gayatri Ganesh, director of development at the Christian Hospital, a rural hospital in Mungeli, India, and Paolo Pagaduan, a project manager with the World Wildlife Fund in the Philippines, have signed up for courses at the new non-profit group Philanthropy University, started by Amr Al-Dabbagh, a Saudi businessman and philanthropist, writes Paul Sullivan for The New York Times. Read more...

Apple has won patent infringement lawsuits against other companies, but its loss on 16 October to a university could have significant impacts on other university researchers concerned about their intellectual property rights, writes Lucy Schouten for The Christian Science Monitor. Read more...

Officials at Myanmar’s 169 colleges and universities are busy drafting charters for their respective institutions, which will allow them to be self-governing starting from the upcoming academic year, writes May Thinzar Naing for Myanmar Times. Read more...

A total of 43 of the 86 national universities are set to carry out structural reforms, such as establishing new faculties and realigning existing ones, in the six years from fiscal 2016, reports Jiji Press. Read more...

By Ly Tran and Cate Gribble. Cross-border student mobility is among the most prominent phenomena of tertiary education over the past 20 years. There are currently 543,123 international students enrolled in Australia. Read more...

By Bob Kinnaird. More than 380,000 foreign students are currently enrolled in Australian education institutions, some 260,000 in the nation’s universities. But recent media exposés have again revealed widespread exploitation and wage abuse of these students and other workers holding temporary visas, often by employers from the same ethnic background. Read more...

By Ellen Hazelkorn. Globalisation produces big societal challenges with impacts flowing between and across boundaries in ways we were previously able to ignore. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. As the Paris-based International Association of Universities, or IAU, prepares to hold its conference on Internationalization of Higher Education: Moving beyond mobility in Siena Italy, from 28-30 October, University World News Asia Editor YOJANA SHARMA caught up with IAU President Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, a former vice-chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia, to discuss IAU issues, including refugees and migrants, Sustainable Development Goals, and his concept of higher education for a single planet. Read more...

By Linda Yeung. Ashoka University, a new private liberal arts university in India, is expanding collaborations with Yale University in the United States, strengthening a collaboration that began five years ago, before Ashoka admitted its first student cohort in 2014. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. As Yale-NUS College – the flagship liberal arts programme in Asia run by Yale and the National University of Singapore – inaugurated its new campus with three residential colleges this month, there have been rumblings of discontent over the course content. Read more...