As the current centre-right government cuts back on university funding, many academic research groups have been forced to look beyond Finland's borders for project funding. For example, experts in the fields of bioscience, psychology and statistics have recently uprooted to different locations abroad after securing research assistance from international sources. More...

By Mikhail Zinshteyn. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan to make tuition free year at New York’s public colleges and universities for students from families earning less than $125,000 is being touted as a shot across the progressive bow. As the new Congress and White House tout a conservative agenda, the governor is offering a playbook that states could use to capitalize on the liberal currents that crisscrossed the Democratic presidential primaries. More...

Von Dirk Riße, Corinna Schulz. Wer Medizin studieren will, aber kein Top-Abitur vorweisen kann, braucht entweder viel Geduld oder einen großen Geldbeutel. Denn die Zulassungsberechtigung, der Numerus clausus, ist hoch, an Wartesemester müssen Bewerber schon mal sechs Jahre einplanen. More...

By Abdi Latif Dahir. Universities and higher education institutions were always part and parcel of Africa’s modern and past history. The Univerisity of Al Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco, which opened in 859 AD, is considered the oldest existing and continually operating university in the world. Al-Azhar University in Egypt, part of the larger complex of institutions associated with Al-Azhar mosque and which currently enrolls two million students, is dubbed the world’s most prestigious Islamic university. More...

The education market in Australia is expected to value $ 115 billion in the future with both domestic students and international enrollments playing a key role in this achievement. Although international enrollments declined marginally during 2011-12, the overall market grew due to an increase in domestic enrollments. More...

By Scott DeRue. Student debt now stands at about  $1.3 trillion, with the average family owing over $48,000. And student debt is only a portion of the $132,529 in total debt for the average household, according to a report compiled by NerdWallet.com. More...

By Ellie Bothwell. Germany’s Excellence Strategy – a programme aimed at stimulating competition among universities through selective funding – has little substantial impact on the quality of higher education, according to one rector. More...

By Study International Staff. The UK must keep its doors open to international talent and collaboration, urged the country’s top academic and business leaders in a letter published in the Financial Times recently.
In the letter, signatories such as Universities UK president Julia Goodfellow and British Chambers of Commerce director general Adam Marshall called on Prime Minister Theresa May’s administration to implement policies which would support international collaboration. More...