By Andrée Sursock. Higher education institutions worldwide are subject to pressures that have grown in number and complexity. They recognise that the quality of their activities – research, teaching and learning and societal engagement – is integrally dependent upon sound internationalisation and digitalisation strategies. Read more...
By Catherine Montgomery. The increase in global partnerships between groups of higher education institutions is part of a fundamental change in the way universities are working together and constructing themselves. Read more...
By Zenobia Ismail. The wave of violent protests at South African universities and the frequent use of fire as a weapon have provoked much analysis of fire as an idiom for political change in South Africa. In January when the students at the University of Cape Town raided the portraits adorning the dining hall at Fuller House and set fire to them, an article in The Economist carried the headline “Whiteness Burning”. Read more...
By Alan Ruby. The latest period of globalisation has been good for higher education in Britain and much of the rest of the world. There has been freer movement of people and ideas. Last year about 4.5 million young people studied outside their home nation. Millions of others took advantage of increased opportunities for transnational education. Read more...
By Mary Beth Marklein. In The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, US journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon recounts the story of Kamila Sidiqi, an entrepreneurial young woman in Afghanistan who built a business to hold her family home together under Taliban rule. Read more...
By Mushfique Wadud. The Bangladesh government has rowed back on a previous decision to shut down three private medical colleges for their failure to fulfil conditions set for obtaining a licence, following protests by students and guardians. Read more...
By Jan Petter Myklebust. Denmark is making headway in its efforts to reduce the number of students who do not complete their degree in good time. Read more...
By Gilbert Nakweya. A new World Bank initiative has been launched to help Tanzanian youth improve the quality of their skills and tap into the country’s key economic sectors. Read more...
By Christabel Ligami. An East African Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, or EACREEE, has been launched at Makerere University in Uganda to address energy issues faced by the five East African Community nations of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Read more...
A new point-scoring admission system in UK universities may remove the advantage now enjoyed by students who take Hong Kong’s Diploma of Secondary Education examination, writes Shirley Zhao for the South China Morning Post. Read more...
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