By Emily Johnson. Education is at the centre of many debates these days. Education experts conduct surveys and do research based on current knowledge and data. Statistics are all well and good, but wouldn't it be better to hear what students have to say instead of conducting dry fact-finding exercises. Read more...

By Sarah O’Shea. "We’re the first in our families to go to university – this is brand new to us. The only thing I learned about university before I came was on [a] flyer." (Mike)
The quote above is from a small group interview with students who were both first in their families to come to university and who also identified as being Indigenous peoples within Australia. Read more...

By Ming Cheng. Curriculum internationalisation is a key issue in higher education today. It is argued that such internationalisation is important for developing students’ intercultural awareness, a global perspective of their subject area and the competences necessary for their future career. Read more...

By Shannon Najmabadi, The Chronicle of Higher Education. In the past few weeks, Xavier Maciel, a first-year transfer student at Pomona College, has on more than one occasion woken up to over a dozen emails from college professors across the country. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. Strict new rules were scheduled to come into force last week for business schools in China recruiting Chinese students for MBA and short Executive MBA courses, with institutions no longer allowed to set their own entrance exams – part of the country’s drive to root out substandard programmes with low or non-existent barriers to entry. Read more...

By Michael Gardner. A German finance expert has warned that the country’s federal states could be entering a “dangerous race to the bottom” regarding legislation on transparency in cooperation between industry and higher education. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The government has unveiled plans to strengthen the quality of research – by investing in more research time for existing staff and opening up routes into a research career, especially for women – in a bill presented to parliament last Monday. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Higher education and research will have a prominent place in the programme of the new three-party coalition government, endorsed by the Queen of Denmark last Monday, and an early talking point is the replacement of Minister of Higher Education and Science Ulla Tørnæs with Søren Pind, the outgoing minister of justice. Read more...

By Damtew Teferra. While I agree with Philip G Altbach and Hans de Wit of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College in the United States, when they write in their recent contribution that the aggressive posturing of United States President-elect Donald Trump is far from helpful to higher education around the world, I do not believe it will seriously dent the system as a whole. Nor will it have a significant impact on African higher education. Read more...

By Ochieng’ O Benny. A new generation of young African entrepreneurs and innovators, keen to contribute towards the alleviation of poverty and address global development challenges, is being nurtured in a number of universities on the continent. Read more...