A survey by a local newspaper has indicated that more than half of Dutch university courses are now taught entirely in English in a bid to keep institutions competitive, to reflect the internationalisation of education and to attract foreign students, reports Dutch News. Read more...

Prime Minister Theresa May is set to scrutinise the number of student visas being granted to United Kingdom university applicants in a fresh attempt to reduce immigration, writes Peter Yeung for the Independent. Read more...

China is eager to improve the standing of its higher education sector, wanting it to match the country’s economic clout, but a blueprint released late last year aimed at boosting the construction of “world-class universities and world-class majors” has been widely criticised as “old wine in a new bottle”, writes Alice Yan for South China Morning Post. Read more...

The whole European research system would suffer if it no longer included the UK and Switzerland, according to the president of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, one of the world's leading universities, writes John Morgan for Times Higher Education. Read more...

Recent data shows that southern states have been disproportionately cutting spending on public higher education, forcing tuition increases that make their colleges and universities among the least affordable for the poorest families – who already face some of the nation’s highest poverty rates, writes Timothy Pratt for The Hechinger Report. Read more...

By Geoff Maslen. If you Google “How many good university guides around the world?”, 673 million results pop up in 0.67 seconds. Read more...

By Nic Mitchell. United Kingdom universities are starting to look seriously at the European mainland to expand transnational higher education, or TNE, following fears that the number of European Union students in Britain could dramatically decline after Brexit. Read more...

By Hans de Wit, Andrés Bernasconi and Daniela Véliz-Calderón. Catholic universities, even more than other faith-based universities, are an important segment of the higher education sector in many countries around the world. And one would assume that, by their very nature, they would be more internationally oriented and active than other institutions of higher education. Read more...

By Ranjit Goswami. For much of the world, including for the University Grants Commission or UGC of India, the pursuit of ‘quality higher education for all’ is a key goal. The UGC, in liaison with other regulators like the All India Council for Technical Education, has proposed a model curriculum – for all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and any associated core or elective courses – as part of the solution. Read more...

By Tom P Abeles. We tend to forget that the university as we see it today has followed many paths from its start in Italy around 1088. The ‘idea’ of the modern university, particularly in the United States, dates from the 17th century founding of Harvard with its focus on providing both content and polish to the elite’s social and cultural capital. Read more...