Universities will be forced to come clean to prospective students about the real Australian Tertiary Admission Rank cut-offs for their courses, following recommendations to the Turnbull government from the nation's top higher education panel, writes Matthew Knott for The Sydney Morning Herald. Read more...

A record number of foreign students took jobs in Japan immediately after graduating from universities and vocational schools last year, according to recently released Justice Ministry data, reports The Japan Times. Read more...

Students at colleges across the country planned and held demonstrations to pressure their universities to protect undocumented students when Donald Trump becomes president, writes Susan Svrluga for The Washington Post. Read more...

By Mary Beth Marklein. US universities enrolled 1,043,839 foreign students last year, and 313,415 US students studied abroad in 2014-15, the latest year for which that dataset is available, according to Open Doors, released by the non-profit Institute of International Education or IIE. Read more...

By Michael Gardner. The German Rectors’ Conference or HRK has presented proposals for a new accreditation system for study programmes. Read more...

By Waldemar Siwinski. There are clear signs that a new order is emerging in the sphere of academic ranking. Over the past years rankings have stormed the higher education world and changed it or, at least, changed its image. Read more...

By Safwan M Masri. Civil conflict, terrorism and public health scares are only some of the concerns causing unprecedented disruptions across communities worldwide. These crises take on greater immediacy and importance today due to their increasingly global nature. Read more...