Local universities' reckless drive to recruit Chinese students has cast a shadow over their efforts to globalise their campuses through admitting more international students, writes Chung Hyun-chae for The Korea Times. Read more...

The much-vaunted German and Swiss system of apprenticeship – where students take on jobs and study for degrees concurrently – will be tried out at universities in Singapore, writes Sandra Davie for The Straits Times. Read more...

A Somali language degree programme will be launched by the University of Helsinki in autumn 2017, while a briefer, 15-study point package is already set to begin at the beginning of the autumn semester this year, reports YLE. Read more...

The official breaking-of-ground ceremony of a joint Russian-Chinese University took place in the city of Shenzhen in China. The new university will be established on the basis of the Moscow State University and the Beijing Institute of Technology, reports Sputnik News. Read more...

Going to university is no longer ‘a must’ for many Vietnamese students, who would rather go to vocational schools and work at factories than attend university and remain unemployed, reports VietNamNet Bridge. Read more...

Taking its cue from the human resource development ministry's recent move of issuing rankings of Indian universities and the country's engineering, management and pharmaceutical institutes, the agriculture ministry has decided to exclusively rank 73 agricultural universities, writes Vishwa Mohan for TNN. Read more...

Higher education is in the throes of its biggest building boom since the 1960s. Whether it is wise or not, whether the financial and academic calculations add up, are questions rarely asked, so loud is the self-congratulation of those pioneering the expansion, writes Mary Dejevsky for The Spectator. Read more...

The nation’s A$44 billion (US$32 billion) student loan scheme is mired in poor risk management and monitoring, according to a damning report released by the Australian National Audit Office that also casts doubt over projections of the size of the country’s future student debt, writes Kylar Loussikian for The Australian. Read more...

While final decisions have not been made on when Donald Trump’s ideas on higher education will be formally unveiled, not to mention many details worked out, the presumptive GOP nominee's campaign expects higher education to be a major issue in the general election later this year, writes Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed. Read more...

Some 5,600 Syrian students have been enrolled at universities across Turkey while 1,080 have received scholarships, according to the head of the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, reports Anadolu Agency. Read more...