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By Suchitra Behal. Some of India’s premier educational institutions and universities find themselves on a government blacklist for non-compliance with regard to funds received by them under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, or FCRA. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. Students in China are being recruited in large numbers by their universities as an ‘army’ of online contributors to bolster the official party line, in a new drive by the Communist Youth League of China that will draw universities squarely into the country’s attempts to control the internet within its borders. Read more...

By Michael Gardner. A 102-year-old has been awarded her doctoral degree in Hamburg. Paediatrician and professor of medicine Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport was denied her title under the Nazis because her mother was a Jew.
At an award ceremony held at the University Clinic of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Syllm-Rapoport said she was also collecting her title on behalf of all those who had been in a far worse situation than she had under the Nazi dictatorship. Having her certificate awarded was “an encouraging sign of a new, different, humanistic spirit at a German university”. Read more...

By Pamela Tate. For more than 40 years we at the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, or CAEL, have been working with the public sector, private sector industries and higher education institutions to link learning and work and to ensure that adult students receive the most efficient training and education to occupy a meaningful professional place in a 21st century economy. Read more...

By Alina Cordova. The ‘internationalisation of education’ is a term which often makes the people who use it sound naïve and those who hear it cringe with understandable scepticism. However, in the last couple of decades, aided, most certainly, by the explosion of electronic news and social media, many institutions of higher learning have had to come to terms with this trend in order to secure a relevant position in global rankings. Read more...

By Hans de Wit and Philip G Altbach. The 2015 annual conference of NAFSA: Association of International Educators took place in Boston, USA, on 24-29 May. A record number of over 11,000 participants demonstrated the increasing importance of international education, not only in the United States but also in the rest of the world since the number of international participants from over 100 countries was also at a record high. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Huge increases in the number of students graduating from university with PhDs are occurring in countries around the world, delegates attending a conference on doctoral education were told. Read more...

By Jan Petter Myklebust and Ian R Dobson. Yle, the Finnish broadcasting corporation, recently published a survey on “likely or extremely likely threats to Finnish security”. The majority of respondents (54%) were concerned about a “drawn-out economic depression”, far in excess of other concerns: “problems in domestic politics” (28%) and “problems in foreign politics” (22%). Even the “threat of terrorism” (20%), “influx of refugees” (16%) and “extreme weather” (15%) were of relatively minor concern. Read more...

By Mary Beth Marklein. Noting a "sense of urgency for a shared understanding" of higher education quality in an increasingly global landscape, an international advisory group has released a set of principles around which it suggests quality assurance policy might be organised. Read more...

By Nick Holdsworth. Russian scientists and intellectuals mounted a rare public protest on 6 June to voice their fears that research and freedom of enquiry are under threat from the Kremlin. Read more...