By Eugene Vorotnikov. Russia’s leading companies, banks and state corporations, have prepared a petition calling on the national Ministry of Education and Science to design measures to improve the quality of higher education offered by national universities and change the curricula taught by them. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The three major universities in Stockholm plan to form a new research centre for advanced studies following the decision by the City of Stockholm to give the go-ahead for a Nobel Centre to be built on its waterfront. Read more...

By Brendan O'Malley. English students in universities in England now face some of the highest tuition fees in the world – higher than in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – and the highest average debts at graduation, according to a new study. Read more...

By Esther Nakkazi. Africa must create ‘innovation universities’ if it is to achieve economic transformation, sustainable development and inclusive growth, says Calestous Juma, professor of the practice of international development at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government. Read more...

e-Learning offers a great opportunity for universities to adapt courses efficiently to the requirements of different categories of students, participants were told at a national conference on digital distance education held in Algeria. Read more...

Some students at Burundi University believe the rector has a ‘hidden agenda’ after he appointed student representatives to university committees following failed student elections. Read more...

By Temwa Moyo, Nimi Hoffmann and Sioux McKenna. South Africa’s government is planning a major overhaul of its student funding system. This comes in the wake of protests at the country’s universities that saw students successfully freeze fee increases for the 2016 academic year. Read more...

By Deren Temel. Africa cannot wait until 2030 for the next round of global goals to address the urgent need for quality higher education. Read more...

By Wachira Kigotho. Rarely do vice-chancellors of public universities in Sub-Saharan Africa write about their terms in office after they retire. But Professor Ratemo Waya Michieka decided to share his experiences as leader of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya in a recently published book, as part of the continental Higher Education Leadership Programme, HELP. Read more...

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Student protests at Rhodes University, nestled in the small South African town of Grahamstown, ended with the resumption of lectures last Monday after a week of dramatic disruption and disturbances over a ‘rape culture’ at the institution – but the conversation is far from over. Read more...