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 ...

New students from areas of Algeria's interior have been enrolling for German and other subjects they have never learnt at school because they want to attend university in Algiers, according to ...

The commission in Cameroon responsible for assessing higher education qualifications issued abroad has exposed more than 300 cases of fraudulent diplomas, reported ...

Public spending on universities should be maintained where possible ...

Saudi Arabia has announced plans to continue the rapid expansion of higher education as part of its ninth five-year development plan, for 2010-14. A nearly quarter billion dollar annual investment ...

After censoring the news media and internet in the wake of the May c...

India's much-touted education loan guarantee scheme seems to have fa...