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By Aftab Ali. The college and university accommodation crisis in Ireland has become ‘so chronic’ that students are being forced to sleep rough, share a bed with strangers – or give up on studying altogether. More...

By Hans Nicholas Jong. Students are flocking into Islamic-based higher education institutions as the government plans to turn Indonesia into a global center for Islamic study. 
The Religious Affairs Ministry, in charge of managing Islamic higher education institutions, said on Thursday that the number of applicants taking the entrance exam for public Islamic universities grew 10 percent to 77,224 people compared with last year. More...

By Geoff Maslen. The intelligence of animals can be estimated by the size of the holes in the skull which the arteries pass through, according to novel research by biologists at the University of Adelaide. Read more...

By Brendan O’Malley. School education should be used as a recruiting ground for foreign students to secure higher education enrolments, according to a Victoria government paper published last Tuesday. Read more...

By Richard Garrett. In March of 2015, Universities Australia, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a number of other organisations launched a national strategy for work-integrated learning. Read more...

By Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera. A few months ago, New York University Professor Andrew Ross was denied entry to the United Arab Emirates, or UAE, on ideological grounds. The incident put academic freedom in the Arab World under a microscope, but the coverage failed to recognise that the US has similarly unethical restrictions for non-citizen scholars. Read more...

By Nader Habibi. The world’s largest oil exporter is trying to transform itself into a knowledge economy. This is the goal that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia set for itself nearly a decade ago and the former Saudi leader, King Abdullah, allocated a large amount of financial resources to modernising the country’s higher education system for this purpose. Read more...

By Simon Marginson. In the UK and US the growth of social and economic inequality is taking place in societies in which formal participation in higher education is at an historic high. Is higher education then responsible for the pattern of unequal earnings. Read more...

By David Jobbins. The Labour opposition in England has warned that the latest efforts by universities to increase the numbers of students from low-income families and other disadvantaged groups may not be enough to offset the effect of the abolition of maintenance grants announced in the 8 July Budget. Read more...

By Michael Gardner. Germany’s federal and state governments have called on the country’s major research institutions to review their employment conditions and career structures. They are particularly critical of the underrepresentation of women in these institutions. Read more...