By Johanna Vuorelma. Today’s Turkey is not the same Turkey that I experienced 10 years ago when I first lived there. Those years were filled with optimism, greater civil liberties, significant steps towards democracy, a booming economy and international admiration. Read more...

By Christabel Ligami. A three-year study by the British Council aimed to address this concern. Its report, Universities, Employability and Inclusive Development: Repositioning higher education in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, examines how universities in the four Sub-Saharan African countries – and the United Kingdom for comparative purposes – can contribute more effectively to the preparation of graduates for work and society. Read more...

By Grace Karram Stephenson. Women have been active, contributing members of Canadian universities for more than a century. However, the past three years have seen a string of sexual assaults at high profile institutions reaffirming the tenuous position of women on campus and raising anew the call for action. Read more...

By Ellen Hazelkorn. That global rankings have made an indelible mark on higher education is incontrovertible. Their arrival at the millennium coincided with the acceleration of this phase of globalisation and signalled the transformation of higher education from a local institution into a global actor of geopolitical significance. Read more...

By Christopher Ziguras. It is difficult to imagine a group of people more stricken by the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union than the 5,200 people from 80 countries who assembled for the recent European Association for International Education or EAIE conference. Read more...

By Darren McDermott. It’s been a busy few weeks in Irish politics, as is invariably the case leading up to the announcement of the national budget. Read more...

By Alan Ruby. The Brexit decision brought into sharper focus the slowdown in globalisation that has been underway since the 2008-09 recession. Foreign direct investment is still at reduced levels, cross-border lending has remained flat for the past five years or more and political sanctions, however legitimate, continue to constrain trade. Read more...

By Steve Kolowich and Andy Thomason, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Donald J Trump did something shocking last week, something he hasn’t done in the entirety of his unusual campaign for United States president: He talked with some substance about his plans for higher education. Read more...

By Ranjit Devraj. As part of a plan to internationalise the Indian Institutes of Technology or IITs, the country’s top institutions are stepping up efforts to attract top academics from overseas and have agreed a new programme to open up to foreign students, with the aim of luring an additional 10,000 students. Read more...

By Jane Marshall. Ministers have secured a landmark compromise agreement with university presidents, students’ organisations, and lecturers’ and researchers’ unions, to settle the thorny issue of selection of students for masters degree courses. Read more...