The Council of University Presidents of Thailand has set up three committees to improve the Thai University Central Admission System for the next academic year, according to its president, Suchatvee Suwansawat, reports The Nation. More...
By Teghan Simonton, The Chronicle of Higher Education. This semester, Elissa Steglich’s law students handled two cases of immigrant mothers seeking asylum in the United States, both separated from their young children in the process. One of the children was 18 months’ old. More...
By Roger Chao Jr. Last week’s University World News commentary highlighting New Zealand universities suffering under free tuition regimes highlights a lack of understanding by national governments about the public nature of higher education and the multiple benefits of access to quality higher education to national, regional and global sustainable development. More...
By Michaela Martin and Pedro Henriquez Guajardo. Enrolments in higher education in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) region have increased from 1.8 million students at the beginning of the 1970s to 24 million in 2015. According to estimates, the participation rate in the region is currently around 48% on average, but there are major differences in participation across the LAC countries. More...
By Aline Courtois. In a 2016 referendum, 51.9% of those who voted were in favour of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. The ‘Brexit’ process – the practicalities of which are still largely unknown – was officially triggered in May 2017. Brexit may have serious implications for higher education in the United Kingdom and beyond. More...
By Lukas Bischof. The Soviet Union fell apart a quarter of a century ago. A formerly unified higher education system branched into 15 distinct systems. Much has been written about different aspects of the post-socialist transformation. So far, however, academic and policy discourses have lacked a systemic picture of post-Soviet higher education systems. More...
By Mathias Falkenstein. For the global business school community the 21st century brought a period of introspection. As global sustainability concerns grew, critical debate about the purpose of business and its role in society could not be left without a response from the business and management education sector. More...
By Angel Calderon. The landscape of higher education globally continues to shift remarkably. According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, in 1970 there were 32.6 million students enrolled in higher education institutions compared to 99.9 million in 2000. This represents an increase of 206% over this period. More...
By Jan Petter Myklebust. The European Commission’s draft proposal for the European Union’s research programme for 2021-28, Horizon Europe, has been heralded by some stakeholders for adding a rule change on third-party participation that could pave the way for more countries from across the world to join the programme. More...
By Geoff Maslen. Federal legislation to track the influence of foreign governments in Australia would affect the work of thousands of academics collaborating with researchers outside the country, says Universities Australia. More...
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