By Chen Huizhi. At Antai College, the number of business students enrolled in the Master of International Business program has increased by 800 percent over the past three years, and the college said a survey indicated that 80 percent of its approximately 100 students hoped to stay in Shanghai to work. More...

By Albuquerque Journal Editorial Board. City government’s move was something of a gamble – this was a brave new world for higher education in Santa Fe. The College of Santa Fe was a historic New Mexico institution started by the Christian Brothers that had connections and a legacy in the community that were vast; Laureate was a rapidly expanding for-profit company based in Baltimore that now has institutions on every inhabited continent on earth. Laureate agreed to, 27-year lease at $2.35 million a year on the Santa Fe campus. More...

By Darnell Gardner Jr. Dozens of organizations across China are selling college degrees for the price of dinner, according to a new report.
Academic information platform sdaxue.com partnered with search engine Baidu to identify 73 groups offering illegal degrees, some for as little as 150 yuan (around $23);
The report comes as millions of senior middle school students prepare for the gaokao, China’s national higher education entrance examination, and narrow down their choices of preferred schools. More...

By Minter Ellison. The globalisation of higher education brings providers in direct contact with the complex network of rules governing international trade in services and foreign investment, including multilateral, plurilateral and bilateral free trade agreements and investment treaties. One such agreement is the recently signed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is highly relevant to Australian higher education providers considering operating overseas, particularly in key South East Asian markets such as Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore. More...

A seminar on "Factors Affecting Bangladeshi Students" selection of private universities: implication for branding, organised by BRAC Business School, was held on the May 12, 2016, at the BRAC University auditorium, BRAC University. More...

The Council of Independent Universities (CIU) has formed a peer-review committee to lead a process that creates a centralized quality assurance system to appraise programmes and degrees to meet local and international standards.
The Council said the process would reassure the public about the quality of courses being offered by the private tertiary institutions and address the falling standards of education in the country. More...

By Peter McGuire. Cash-strapped third-level institutions have increasingly come to rely on fees from foreign students, but this strategy is not without risk. More...

By Universities UK. Universities UK supports the Government’s Higher Education and Research Bill’s principle of giving more people the chance to attend university. However, it warns that any new institutions must meet the UK’s rigorous high standards and uphold the UK’s reputation for academic excellence. More...

By Baboki Kayawe. Health, engineering and creative arts as well as media studies programmes have received the largest share of government sponsorship for higher education learners this academic cycle. More...