President Donald Trump has asked a member of one of America’s most famous evangelical families to lead a task force on higher education, writes Matthew Rozsa for Salon. More...

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich or ETH Zurich, and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have come out tops in Times Higher Education’s “The World’s Most International Universities 2017” ranking, reports Study International. More...

International branch campuses or IBCs have long been seen as one of the most risky forms of transnational education. More...

By Joel Carpenter. Christian higher education is growing briskly in Sub-Saharan Africa. It exists at the intersection of two of the most dynamic social trends on the continent: the rapid rise of Christian adherence and the volatile growth of higher education. More...

By Libby Blanchard. It’s a terrifying time to be an American who believes in scientific fact. More...

By Simon Marginson. In the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom last June, and the United States presidential election in November, two elements were especially powerful shapers of choice: whether voters had entered higher education or not, and whether voters lived in large cities or not. More...

By Mary Beth Marklein. Noting that higher education lies at the core of many of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, the chief of UNESCO's higher education division last week outlined for quality assurance professionals the role they can play in contributing to the success of the initiative. More...

By Mary Beth Marklein. A panel presentation on how the global academic community can combat academic corruption in higher education provoked a lively discussion highlighting the widespread and wide-ranging scope of the problem, the diversity of responses and a growing sense that the issue belongs high on the agenda for policy-makers in international education. More...

By Mary Beth Marklein. United States President Donald Trump, whose first two weeks in office were as unprecedented as his once-unfathomable ascendancy to the nation's highest office, appears eager to maintain a frenetic pace, political analysts told an international gathering of higher education quality assurance and accreditation experts in Washington. More...

By Mary Beth Marklein. The shifting terrain of higher education worldwide is challenging quality assurance and accreditation professionals to examine how they can adjust or transform traditional practices and policies while also preserving core academic values. More...