CIHE has organised jointly with Universidad del Norte a unique international seminar that gathered 30 experts on higher education in Latin America in Colombia on March 4th 2016. The experts - including CIHE director Hans de Wit, and two research fellows Liz Reisberg and Ivan Pacheco - discussed and interacted with the audience about challenges, the future and internationalization of higher education in Latin America. 350 participants from all over Colombia and some neighboring countries attended that conference, illustrating the uniqueness of the gathering and the need for information and debate about higher education in the region. The proceedings (video and audio) are available here. More...

Hans de Wit and Laura Rumbley of CIHE attended the 2016 annual conference of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) in Montreal. Inside Higher Ed covered one of their sessions; links to the slides of additional sessions can be found here. More...

International Higher Education is now also published in Vietnamese thanks to FPT University. IHE is now published in a total of six different languages: English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese and Vietnamese.
Link to the Vietnamese version. More...

New degree apprenticeships have the potential to help fill skills gaps and meet employers’ needs, according to a report from Universities UK (UUK).
The government pledged to create 3 million new apprenticeships in England by 2020. Last year, the coalition government announced nine new industry-designed degree apprenticeships. Apprentices have full-time employment status – rather than student status – and do not pay for training costs or tuition fees. Read more...

Universities UK has welcomed a new multi-million pound fund to increase the number of degree apprenticeships available to young people in England, announced today by the government. Read more...