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By Ly Tran and Cate Gribble. Cross-border student mobility is among the most prominent phenomena of tertiary education over the past 20 years. There are currently 543,123 international students enrolled in Australia. Read more...

By Bob Kinnaird. More than 380,000 foreign students are currently enrolled in Australian education institutions, some 260,000 in the nation’s universities. But recent media exposés have again revealed widespread exploitation and wage abuse of these students and other workers holding temporary visas, often by employers from the same ethnic background. Read more...

By Ellen Hazelkorn. Globalisation produces big societal challenges with impacts flowing between and across boundaries in ways we were previously able to ignore. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. As the Paris-based International Association of Universities, or IAU, prepares to hold its conference on Internationalization of Higher Education: Moving beyond mobility in Siena Italy, from 28-30 October, University World News Asia Editor YOJANA SHARMA caught up with IAU President Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, a former vice-chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia, to discuss IAU issues, including refugees and migrants, Sustainable Development Goals, and his concept of higher education for a single planet. Read more...

By Linda Yeung. Ashoka University, a new private liberal arts university in India, is expanding collaborations with Yale University in the United States, strengthening a collaboration that began five years ago, before Ashoka admitted its first student cohort in 2014. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. As Yale-NUS College – the flagship liberal arts programme in Asia run by Yale and the National University of Singapore – inaugurated its new campus with three residential colleges this month, there have been rumblings of discontent over the course content. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The government is to phase out its Quota Scheme for international mobility and plough 40% of the money saved into two-way institutional collaborations and research collaborations with BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – and Japan. Read more...

By Brendan O'Malley. Countries should step up their investment in long-term research and development, or R&D, to develop frontier technologies that will reshape industry, healthcare and communications and provide urgently needed solutions to global challenges like climate change, according to a new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, report. Read more...

By Munyaradzi Makoni. When it comes to university league tables, open and distance learning providers are getting a raw deal, said experts at the biennial conference of the International Council for Open and Distance Education, or ICDE. “We feel pushed by the current rankings,” said Albert Sangrà, UNESCO chair in education and technology for social change at the Open University of Catalonia in Spain. Read more...

By Stephen Coan. While universities and other tertiary institutions increasingly expand their e-learning and online capacities, they often fail to back up the educational technology with adequate lecturer knowledge to deliver it effectively and sustainably. Read more...