Big employers, universities and the National Health Service will introduce blind recruitment policies to prevent bias against "ethnic-sounding" names. The policy is designed to guard against unconscious bias that is holding back those from a black or ethnic minority background, reports Sky News. Read more...

Several Danish universities are struggling with poor students, increased absenteeism, a lack of motivation and a lower quality of education, reports The Copenhagen Post. Read more...

To boost science, higher education institutions in the Islamic world must give students a broad education and become meritocratic, write Nidhal Guessoum and Athar Osama for Nature. Read more...

After years of pressure to demonstrate their continuing relevance and ability to prepare graduates for the labour market, Canadian universities are signalling a new willingness to embrace real-world education with a set of five new commitments released last week, writes Simona Chiose for The Globe and Mail. Read more...

Around 82% of Chinese universities and colleges have opened compulsory or optional courses on entrepreneurship and innovation, according to statistics from the Ministry of Education, reports Xinhua. Read more...

A group of Afghan students gathered on the leafy campus of Kabul University recently to embark on an unlikely course – the country's first masters degree in gender and women's studies, write Krista Mahr and Aimal Yaqubi for Reuters. Read more...