Africa is a step closer to setting up its own space agency, with the ...

In recent years, something like a small-scale industry has developed with commentators earnestly trying to read long-term trends into the rise and fall of various universities in the former THE-QS ...

The President of Ben-Gurion University of Negev has pledged to ignore threats by a right-wing political group to incite a boycott by international and other donors if staff and curriculum changes a...

Connie Wang had two stipulations as she interviewed potential roommates ahead of the school year - they must understand that she is loud, and they must also love "Glee", the hit musical television ...

A university term paper checking system has been developed in China by its second largest computer producer, TsinghuaTongfang, to prevent plagiarism among college students, the Beijing-based ...

India has launched the second phase of the pan-Africa e-network, adding 12 more countries to the New Delhi-aided long distance education and tele-medicine programme, reports In...

The Council for Higher Education last week presented a plan designed to reform Israeli higher education, write Lior Dattel and Moti Bassok for Haaretz. It calls for an a...

There is a revolution brewing in Polish higher education as universities grapple with wrenching demographic changes as well as trying to figure out how to train students for advanced degrees while ...

Rice University Press is being shut down next month, ending an experiment in an all-digital model of scholarly publishing, writes Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed. Whi...

Admissions offers by American graduate schools to international applicants increased by 3% from 2009 to 2010, reversing a 1% decline the previous year, according to a report released last week by t...

India's Human Resource Development Ministry has set up a high-powered committee, under legal expert NR Madhava Menon to come with a comprehensive policy on the issue of autonomy for higher educatio...

To many academics and students in Egypt, Minister of Higher Educatio...

South Africa's inability to produce enough doctoral graduates to bui...

A body formed to help curb ethnicity and boost cohesion in Kenya in ...

Academics at Nigerian universities have once again condemned the use...

In recent updates to parliament, lawmakers heard of plans to strengt...

The University of Namibia has pulled together a multi-disciplinary t...

Ethiopia is radically expanding its higher education sector: from two federal universities to 22 in just over a decade and another 10 to open soon. Even so, the percentage of the available cohort t...

North-South partnerships between educational institutions are viewed as an important way in which the human and institutional capacity of African universities can be improved. But building and main...

The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa, CARTA, aims to foster multidisciplinary research capacity in population and public health by teaming African universities, African research ...