Tens of thousands of students, teachers, education workers and supporters marched through the streets of downtown Buenos Aires city on 12 May to support the country’s public education system, venting their anger at President Mauricio Macri and his administration in the wake of what education unions are calling a full-scale funding crisis, writes Orlando Jenkinson for Buenos Aires Herald. Read more...

Universities and organisations from countries that have not traditionally been popular destinations for Chinese students attended the annual China International Education Exhibition Tour for the first time, including institutions from the United Arab Emirates, writes Yang Meiping for the Shanghai Daily. Read more...

By Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal. How do people manage to survive and build resilience to wars and conflicts that go on for years? How do refugees and forcibly displaced people endure hardship and roll with the punches when they spend 18 years on average in camps. Read more...

By Tom P Abeles. The image we have of job losses caused by technological advances is anchored in the popular cliché of the Luddite revolt in the weaving industry. So it is not surprising that most of our thinking about the impact of artificial intelligence systems, including robots, seems to focus on the idea of job displacement, primarily in the manufacturing and trade sectors. Read more...

By Richard Holmes. Every so often, especially in North America and Western Europe, there is a panic about the impact of government policies on higher education, usually the failure to provide as much money as universities want, or sometimes as many overseas students as they need to fill lecture halls or cover budget deficits. Global university rankings have a lot to do with the onset and spread of these panics. Read more...

By Farzan Al-Khalil. Under the shadow of the ongoing war in Syria the international community has failed to impose possible solutions to defeat terrorism, overthrow the dictatorship and work towards building a civil state that respects all its citizens regardless of their race, religion and sect. Read more...

By Tunde Fatunde. A top Nigerian academic has generated heated debate after publicly criticising the country’s university accreditation agency for lack of autonomy, negligence and double standards in its annual accreditation of courses. All accusations have been denied by the agency. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. Changes to university admissions to allow in more students from poorer areas to universities in around a dozen richer provinces have backfired as thousands of parents demonstrated in the streets in several cities fearing the out-of-province quotas will be at the expense of local students. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Seven professors at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, or NMBU, publicly questioned the suitability of the Board Chairman Siri Hatlen and several board members due to their lack of academic skills and experience. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. A sharp increase in the number of European Union citizens coming to Denmark to study has prompted Higher Education and Science Minister Ulla Tørnæs to look into whether the programmes on offer are “too big a draw” for foreign students and whether there are loopholes which need to be closed. Read more...