By Mikhail Balyasin and Georgiana Mihut. The following scenario will be familiar to most of us: you have spent anywhere between 10 and 30 minutes completing an online survey only to see the message “Thank you for your participation!” and then you never hear about that survey or its results again. Read more...

By Thanh Nguyen. Reforming higher education has been a top priority of the Vietnamese government in recent years. Even though some progress has been made, university reform still lags egregiously behind the country’s economic transformation. Read more...

By Pratik Gandhi. Around the corridors of the ministry responsible for education in India, you will often hear statements like: "India itself has huge demand internally and so we don't need international students." It’s not just those in education who say such things – even economists ask: "Foreign student kyu chaiye [Why foreign students]?". Read more...

By Mary Beth Marklein. Diploma mills have been on the United States radar screen as far back as 1876, when then commissioner of education John Eaton Jr called them a “disgrace to American education”. Today, credential fraud in higher education is a billion-dollar industry, by some accounts. It has spiralled into a major threat for employers and university admissions offices. And it spans the globe. Read more...

By Mary Beth Marklein. A contentious climate on Capitol Hill poses challenges for anyone’s policy agenda in the United States this year. But the 2016 election season is further complicating the goals of advocates for global learning, who gathered last week in Denver in the US for the 68th annual conference of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. Read more...

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. In a move widely viewed by experts as responding to international pressure, Japan has said it will host some 150 Syrian refugees as foreign students in support of Europe’s efforts to tackle the influx of tens of thousands of people fleeing war in their country. Read more...

By Brendan O'Malley. The declaration, composed by student representatives from South America, North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, says education is a human right and one of the “great social equalizers” but is under threat from commodification, neglect for quality, lack of accessibility and attacks on students’ fundamental rights. Read more...

By Eugene Vorotnikov. The Russian government plans to create conditions for the acceleration of research and development activities at the national universities, according to recent statements of Dmitry Livanov, Russia’s minister of education and science. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. The number of Indian students going abroad to study is growing at a faster pace than ever before. With the exception of the United Kingdom, student numbers from India to the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Germany grew faster than overall overseas student numbers to these destinations, according to the latest report by MM Advisory Services in New Delhi. Read more...

By Hans de Wit. At the IREG-8 Conference in Lisbon on 4-6 May, the central theme was rankings and internationalisation (see also Simon Marginson’s address). The relationship between the two topics is logical, as rankings, in particular the main global rankings, play a key role in international competition in higher education – and because international indicators play a role in positioning higher education institutions. Read more...