A powerful foundation has joined the chorus calling for more accurate information to measure what Americans are getting for the hundreds of billions of dollars per year they invest in higher education, writes Jon Marcus for The Hechinger Report. Read more...

An expert on international affairs has said Beijing is ramping up efforts to entice foreign elites with university scholarships in a bid to build its “soft power”, writes David Matthews for Times Higher Education. Read more...

Cecil Rhodes – or at least the statue of him perched above the entrance of Oriel College, Oxford – isn’t falling. The college announced on 29 January that despite the efforts of Rhodes Must Fall Oxford, a student-led organisation calling for its removal, the 19th-century statue will stay, writes Barbara Speed for New Statesman. Read more...

Students attending Burundi's public universities are going without breakfast because the government can no longer afford it, underscoring the fragile state of Burundi's economy amid violent unrest, writes Eloge Willy Kaneza for Associated Press. Read more...

The government agency Majlis Amanah Rakyat will review its policy of sponsoring students to study abroad, in line with the government's desire to turn Malaysia into a regional education hub, reports Bernama. Read more...

Rising numbers of European Union students are applying to United Kingdom universities – while the number of home applicants has fallen, writes Eleanor Harding for the Daily Mail. Read more...

Australia’s international education is continuing to expand rapidly, according to preliminary data released on 3 February showing export income from education services was A$19.65 billion (US$13.9 billion) in 2015 – an increase of 11.5% since 2014 – according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data. Read more...

The Institute of International Education, or IIE, has created an Emergency Student Fund, or ESF, initiative to help students from Syria and Yemen on US campuses whose financial support has been devastated by the ongoing conflict in Syria and escalating violence in Yemen. Read more...

By Sarah Porter. A new report, From Bricks to Clicks: The potential of data and analytics in higher education, published on 26 January highlights the importance of data in the future higher education system and warns of the dangers of not acting now to embrace the opportunities that it offers. Read more...

By Aulia Nastiti. The construction of knowledge in Indonesian education has mostly taken shape within disciplinary boundaries. Since primary school, we learn the various subjects in stiffly separated categories. Read more...