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By Yojana Sharma. Despite repeated bans by China’s education authorities, new fake universities and other scams continue to pop up on blacklists that are published every year to alert the Chinese public. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. China’s universities have made strong progress in two Asia rankings released last week, while Saudi Arabia and Brazil dominate in QS’s Arab Region and Latin America rankings respectively. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. An increase in higher education enrolment provides benefits to societies generally but rapid expansion has also put pressure on national budgets and raised concerns in providing quality, equity and access. Read more...

By Brendan O’Malley. There is no “silver bullet” that will guarantee success in building a national eco-system for commercialised research, a study on the experience in four countries has found. Read more...

By Brendan O’Malley. A global fund for higher education in emergencies should be established to enable alternative provision to be made during times of war and other disasters, participants at the British Council’s Going Global conference for leaders of international education were told on 2 June. Read more...

By Brendan O’Malley. Eleven million young people will be joining the jobs market every year for the next decade in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The population of the region will grow from 1.2 billion in 2010 to 2 billion in 2050 and 70% of those will be under 25. Read more...

Some 350 higher education lecturers and researchers attended Morocco’s First Forum of Scientific Research to discuss their experiences, present research findings and – especially – promote multidisciplinarity. Read more...

By Stella-Maris Orim. Plagiarism is an issue of concern in institutions of learning across the world. There are several widely held ideas about plagiarism in Nigeria, but they have not been substantiated because of a lack of empirical findings. However, a recently completed doctoral research project on student plagiarism in Nigerian universities has thrown more light on the matter. Read more...

By Nicola Jenvey. South Africa needed 14% of gross domestic product generated by entrepreneurs to achieve the economic growth rates essential for sustainability and development – and entrepreneurship was a skill universities could be training students – the 17th annual African Renaissance conference heard in Durban recently. Read more...

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Africa largely missed the analogue technology revolution 50 years ago. Experts say the digital age will come to an end faster. There is a need to position Africa to catch up with information and communication technology and be viewed as a global player, said Thierry Zomahoun, president and CEO of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, or AIMS. Read more...