A surprising one out of every 14 people who attend community colleges – widely regarded as low-tuition options for the less well-prepared – has already earned a bachelor degree, according to the American Association of Community Colleges. That’s 770,000 students. At some community colleges, the proportion is as high as one in five, writes Matt Krupnick for The Hechinger Report. Read more...

Russian universities will aim to rise in international subject-based rankings, rather than institutional ones due to "a different organisational structure" of Russian institutions, writes Gleb Fedorov for Russia Beyond The Headlines. Read more...

The college year simply didn’t start for more than 300,000 students across Venezuela, amid a widespread faculty strike that has closed down 18 public universities, writes Franz von Bergen for Fox News Latino. Read more...

By Alya Mishra. Earlier this year, India’s central universities agreed to roll out the controversial Choice Based Credit System, or CBCS, from the start of the 2015 academic session in July. A few months down the line, universities are struggling to accommodate the structural changes that CBCS demands. Read more...

By Brennan Weiss. Cornel West, a provocative civil rights activist and professor of philosophy and Christian practice at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, is one of America’s most outspoken critics of race relations in the United States. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. Ambitious education targets including doubling Malaysia’s higher education participation rate and increasing the number of foreign students could be hard to reach without improving the quality of local universities to attract more students. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. An analysis of the top performers in the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme, or H2020, shows that the UK has strengthened its position, along with the Netherlands and Ireland, compared with the Seventh Framework Programme; and Switzerland is no longer represented. Read more...

By Margaret Andrews. During the summer I wrote a post entitled "What skills do employers want most?" that generated some traffic and discussion. Since that time, there’s been more support for the need for – and pay-off from – having schools focus more on the ‘soft skills’, including a recent New York Times article that notes, just like in kindergarten, that the most important factor for success in the world of work may be whether one “plays well with others”. Read more...

By Ali Reza Yunespour. On 17 October 2015, Kabul University launched a Masters Programme in Gender and Women’s Studies. Initiated and funded by the United Nations Development Programme, or UNDP, and the government of South Korea, the programme aims to provide training for gender advocates, raise social awareness and encourage gender research. Read more...

By Eric Fredua-Kwarteng. Over the decades, African universities, particularly the publicly funded ones, have played a significant role in developing human resources for state bureaucracies including ministries, departments, boards and agencies, the education sector and the professional class, such as lawyers, bankers, judges, engineers, doctors, accountants and managers. Read more...