On his first day as chairman of the Southern African Development Community or SADC, His Majesty King Mswati III of Swaziland announced the launch of the SADC University of Transformation, writes Gugu Simelane for the Swazi Observer. Read more...

More Singaporeans are heading Down Under for their university degrees, on the back of the fall in the Australian dollar last year. And, with Singapore recognising more degrees obtained there, numbers are expected to pick up even more, writes Amelia Teng for The Straits Times. Read more...

A high percentage of foreign students enrolled in institutions of higher education remain in Finland after their graduation, said CIMO, an expert organisation providing services on international mobility and cooperation, reports Finland Times. Read more...

Hundreds of universities are continuing to seek students to fulfil enrolment goals as less prestigious state-owned and private universities as well as state-owned universities have complained they lack students, which is a new phenomenon, reports VietNamNet Bridge. Read more...

Four top South African universities have been summoned to account for how they use their budget to advance gender transformation and monitor gender violence on campuses, writes Roland Mpofu for IOL. Read more...

All private higher education institutions in Cambodia will only have to pay a 1% tax on their income till 2018, according to a prakas or regulation issued by the Ministry of Economy and Finance recently, to help shoulder the government’s financial burden for expanding access to university education, reports the Khmer Times. Read more...

With little international recognition, Colombia has been more engaged with international trends in higher education than just about any other country in Latin America. In fact, Colombia seems to be the only country in Latin America that has developed and sustained a coherent national policy for the development of higher education for several decades, taking into consideration the major issues confronting all countries today, writes Liz Reisberg for Inside Higher Ed. Read more...

University of Chicago students should not expect to get ‘trigger warnings’ before professors talk about sensitive topics, or ‘safe spaces’ where they can gather with others to avoid a speaker whom they find offensive, entering students were told recently, writes Susan Svrluga for The Washington Post. Read more...

Professor Jonathan Jansen has warned that another 0% fee increase for tertiary institutions will be a death knell for universities, writes Lauren Kansley for the Mail & Guardian. Read more...

Donald Trump and his now-defunct real-estate university lost another legal attempt to block former students from suing as a group in a California case accusing the Republican presidential candidate of fraud, writes Erik Larson for Bloomberg. Read more...