The uncapped system of higher education funding is reaching equilibrium as the growth in the number of would-be students slows and universities become marginally more choosy about whom they accept, writes John Ross for The Australian. Read more...

New research shows that white students are failing to keep pace with students from ethnic minorities at school – but are still keeping their grip on elite universities, writes Nick Morrison for Forbes. Read more...

Dozens of state-owned and private universities in the country recently agreed to join hands to overcome limited government funding for academics, research and innovation, writes Wahyoe Boediwardhana for The Jakarta Post. Read more...

Campus leaders face intense scrutiny for what they say or don’t say in this tense post-election period. Some messages that go over well on campus receive considerable criticism as they spread, writes Rick Seltzer for Inside Higher Ed. Read more...

Ever since the Distance Education Council of the Indira Gandhi National Open University was dissolved in 2012, open universities in the country have faced a number of challenges. Most of them have not been able to start courses because of lack of approvals, while others have also not been allocated development funds, writes Gauri Kohli for Hindustan Times. Read more...

Officials said it is “too soon” to determine whether the attack at Ohio State University on 28 November, in which 11 people were injured, had any connection to terrorism, writes Ciara McCarthy for the Guardian. Read more...

IMANI Centre for Policy and Education Ghana has said the technical universities lack the capacity to deliver the kind of training that will make their students problem solvers, reports B&FT Online. Read more...

By María Elena Hurtado. “I would like my university to have a presence in the first space station to Mars,” declared Santiago Iñiguez, president of IE University, Spain, projecting his university into the future. Read more...

By Arther Mirza. Students and the youth are the greatest weapon in the fight against terror and hate, was the message from a survivor who gave a powerful personal testament to the horror of genocide and of how hope can emerge from the darkest of places, at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, last week. Read more...

By Grace Karram Stephenson. As many Canadians have watched the election drama in the United States with considerable surprise, things at home have been relatively quiet. So quiet, in fact, that a small-scale protest at the University of Toronto about the use of “gender-specific pronouns” has been front page news. Read more...