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Two new initiatives are under way in North Africa to promote regional and international higher education and research cooperation. The United Nations University is establishing a sustainable devel ...

Malawi's President Joyce Banda has constituted a special committee to investigate problems affecting the higher education sector and propose corrective measures.

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The East African Community has slashed its budget for harmonising education systems and curricula in the five member countries in the coming fiscal year, further slowing a process that has nearly ...

Dr John Apuru Akec wants to use universities to develop South Sudan, the world's newest country, which became independent in July 2011. It is a noble and sensible goal. But first of all, the vice- ...

Over the past three decades, Asia's extraordinary rise has been driven largely by its emergence as the world's low-cost, high-output factory.

But as countries strive to become more diversified ...

Last weekend University World News carried a report on the call by the European Students' Union to scrap the proposed new European study loan guarantees and to use the funds instead for tra ...

Including my home country of Pakistan, Canada is the fourth country in which I have been educated. After gaining some college credit at home, I started off my journey as an international student b ...

The International Association of University Presidents is proud to have been a founding partner of the United Nations Academic Impact and its 10 guiding principles for global tertiary education.
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Globally, international education today faces many challenges. At the top of these challenges, however, is one key problem. We have a crisis of identity. The voting public, politicians and most ci ...

A number of commentators have suggested that the American tertiary community is facing a bubble reminiscent of the 2008 housing meltdown. While many underlying factors have been identified and dis ...

Less than a year after the Catholic church stripped a top Peruvian university of its association with the Vatican, educators in the region's Catholic universities are encouraged by the choice of n ...

In a flurry of recent international meetings of education policy-makers and university leaders, China is deepening its higher education links with Europe. A more in-depth relationship would includ ...

The consortium running the European Commission-backed U-Multirank is working to ensure the quality and reliability of the indicators it will use to measure universities, University World News ...

Since the Boston Marathon bombings three weeks ago, the United States government has enacted just one significant security change: it has ordered increased scrutiny of international students comin ...

For the second year running, the network of 24 research-intensive universities called Universitas 21 has published a report on global rankings of national higher education systems rather than thei ...

The Tanzania Commission for Universities, or TCU, has finally acted against a branch campus of Uganda's Kampala International University, ordering the Dar es Salaam-based institution to stop offer ...

Nigeria's National Economic Council, or NEC, recently made several far-reaching decisions on the future of tertiary education in the country, including the creation of 'mega-universities' in six g ...

An Egyptian public university has referred a lecturer to a disciplinary board for allegedly making blasphemous remarks - the latest in a series of moves against liberals in the Islamist-ruled coun ...

China is to deepen joint medical research with Africa, particularly in training African medical scientists.

Ren Minghui, director general of the Department for International Cooperation in the ...

As Britain's universities minister opened the new building that will be the control hub for the largest radio telescope on Earth, the Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, South Africa revealed its comm ...