By Patrick Blessinger and Barbara Cozza. University partnerships have become powerful vehicles for promoting civic and democratic engagement, cultivating international economic development and fostering teacher and school system improvement, among other aims. Read more...

Online education and internationalisation have been rising as strategic priorities for many university leaders around the world. Read more...

By Margit A Schatzman. Immigration has arisen as a critical issue in the 2016 United States presidential election, yet the average US citizen may not know the breadth and depth of the immigrant population in the country and its contributions. Read more...

By Annina Grob. Two and a half years ago now, a narrow majority of the Swiss electorate approved the so-called popular 'Stop Mass Immigration' initiative or MEI proposed by the Swiss People’s Party or SVP. Read more...

By Jason Tan. The 'global schoolhouse' vision was outlined by Singapore’s ministry of trade and industry in a 2002 report. One of the sections in the report focused on the education industry. The ministry claimed that Singapore was well placed to gain a piece of the estimated US$2.2 trillion world education market. Read more...

By Patrick Hackett. This year the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom is celebrating a very significant anniversary. It is 10 years since we partnered with one of China’s leading institutions, to create the Xi’an Jiatong-Liverpool University or XJTLU. Read more...

By Vimal Patel. American doctoral education is under fire. Concerns about working conditions and low stipends are fuelling graduate unionisation drives. Secure academic jobs, in many fields, are getting harder to land. Graduate-education debt levels are rising. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust and Eva Tønnessen. The Norwegian government agencies overseeing arrangements for grants for students to study abroad are drawing up a list of permitted elite destination universities – for those applying for top-up grants to attend elite institutions abroad – based on universities’ performance in two global rankings, it has emerged. Read more...