By Sharon Dell. Universities around the world need to adapt to changing external and internal circumstances, but achieving intentional change in these complex institutions is often more challenging than theories of organisational change might suggest. Read more...

By Sharon Dell. Providing a comparative overview of a selection of the region’s research-intensive universities with a particular focus on Australia and Singapore, Leo Goedegebuure of the LH Martin Institute in Melbourne, said among the territories surveyed – China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore – Singapore represented one of the “most innovative higher education systems” in the region. Read more...

By Sharon Dell. After establishing itself as a central player in the South African higher education policy sector in the late 1990s, the Centre for Higher Education Trust or CHET has broadened its horizons, moving into the area of African institutional development with an emphasis on research. Read more...

By Sharon Dell. As an area of study, higher education is still relatively young, with research-based contributions having emerged only in the late 1960s and early 1970s while more systematic and comparative studies emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. Read more...

By Karen MacGregor. The notion of ‘Africa Rising’ has found traction in recent years, although the ascent is very uneven, says Nico Cloete, coordinator of HERANA – the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa. Read more...

By Karen MacGregor. Recent data from Norway’s statistical office revealed that 50% of all jobs will require a masters degree in the next 10 years, while unskilled jobs will shrink to 5%. This means universities will have a growing impact on development, argues Peter Maassen of Norway's University of Oslo – and that ensuring their success will become increasingly important. Read more...

Research by the Higher Education, Research and Advocacy Network in Africa, or HERANA, has produced data on flagship universities in eight African countries over a 15-year period. One outcome has been to improve data collection at the universities involved. Read more...

By Brendan O'Malley. The first six words of the Supreme Council of Universities’ mission statement say it endeavours to achieve autonomy for Egypt’s universities. Read more...

By Tonderayi Mukeredzi. A fiscally constrained Zimbabwe government has allocated a meagre US$23.2 million to both kick-start new and complete existing infrastructure projects at its burgeoning universities. Read more...