By Vangelis Tsiligiris. Transnational education or TNE – a form of education provision where the learner is based in a country other than the one of the awarding institution – has grown dramatically over the past 20 years. Read more...

By Goolam Mohamedbhai. In September 2015, the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, which have now become the post-2015 global development framework up to 2030, replacing the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, that covered the period 2000-15. The SDGs comprise an ambitious set of 17 goals and 169 targets, compared to only eight goals and 21 targets in the MDGs. Also, while the MDGs targeted mainly low-income countries, the SDGs are directed to all countries of the world. Read more...

By Stephen Wilkins. International branch campuses were mentioned several times in national and international media over the last couple of years. These campuses are the overseas branches of universities that are typically based in countries such as the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Read more...

By Gilbert Nganga. When the history of Kenyan higher education is written, the name of Dr Simon Gicharu is likely to feature prominently. In the past 19 years Gicharu has built a downtown college into the thriving private Mount Kenya University, with 50,000 students, a 4,000-strong workforce and campuses across East Africa. Read more...

By Sithu Aung Myint. With the National League for Democracy, or NLD, headed by Aung San Suu Kyi, winning nearly 80% of seats in the national election held on 8 November, and two former rectors of major universities elected to parliament, the prospects of education reform are high but it is still unclear where the priorities will lie. Read more...

By David Jobbins. Students who have already graduated from English universities face higher loan repayments after Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced that the earnings threshold is to be frozen at £21,000 (US$31,700) a year until 2021. Read more...

By Michael Gardner. The German government intends to spend more on education and research next year. Higher education is to benefit from this above all with more places at universities, improvements in teaching quality and extra support for research. Read more...

By Dinesh De Alwis. Hopes for a better education system are rising as Sri Lanka’s new government has promised to quadruple spending on education in its budget for 2016, with a near 30% increase in spending on universities compared to 2015. Read more...

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. According to the latest statistics released in the OECD’s Education at a Glance 2015 report, Japan spends just 3.5% of gross domestic product, or GDP, on education, below the average of OECD countries of 4.7% of GDP. By comparison the United Kingdom spends 5.2% of GDP on education, and Norway is on top at 6.5%. It is the sixth consecutive year that Japan has performed so poorly in education spending within the OECD. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. Higher education participation rates have increased across the world’s richest countries with some 57% of young adults within the countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, expected to enter a bachelor degree or equivalent during their lifetime, according to the latest statistics in Education at a Glance 2015, just released by the OECD in Paris. Read more...