By Aline Courtois. In a 2016 referendum, 51.9% of those who voted were in favour of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. The ‘Brexit’ process – the practicalities of which are still largely unknown – was officially triggered in May 2017. Brexit may have serious implications for higher education in the United Kingdom and beyond. More...

By Lukas Bischof. The Soviet Union fell apart a quarter of a century ago. A formerly unified higher education system branched into 15 distinct systems. Much has been written about different aspects of the post-socialist transformation. So far, however, academic and policy discourses have lacked a systemic picture of post-Soviet higher education systems. More...

By Mathias Falkenstein. For the global business school community the 21st century brought a period of introspection. As global sustainability concerns grew, critical debate about the purpose of business and its role in society could not be left without a response from the business and management education sector. More...

By Angel Calderon. The landscape of higher education globally continues to shift remarkably. According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, in 1970 there were 32.6 million students enrolled in higher education institutions compared to 99.9 million in 2000. This represents an increase of 206% over this period. More...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The European Commission’s draft proposal for the European Union’s research programme for 2021-28, Horizon Europe, has been heralded by some stakeholders for adding a rule change on third-party participation that could pave the way for more countries from across the world to join the programme. More...

By Geoff Maslen. Federal legislation to track the influence of foreign governments in Australia would affect the work of thousands of academics collaborating with researchers outside the country, says Universities Australia. More...

By Brendan O’Malley. Academics, academic institutions, higher education leaders and higher education organisations joined calls last week to condemn the forced separation of illegal immigrant children from their parents in the United States and the imprisonment of immigrant families. More...

By Yojana Sharma. Moves by the United Kingdom government to ease student visa procedures for around a dozen non-European countries have caused outrage in India whose students – among the most numerous in the UK – have been excluded while Chinese students stand to benefit from the changes which come into effect on 6 July. More...

By Mary Beth Marklein and Nguyen Lan Huong. Latin America and the Caribbean appear to be the new go-to regions for many international recruitment officers at United States colleges and universities, more than three-quarters of whom said they are rethinking overseas strategies in light of recent enrolment shortfalls, a new survey finds. More...