African information and communications technology (ICT) ministers have agreed to promote the zero rating of access to educational content to...
Senior stakeholders in both the UK and Australia used public webinar platforms last week to affirm that commitments to student...
Is Zoom Safe for Chinese Students? Scholars raise concerns about teaching on Zoom after it acceded to Chinese government demands...
The COVID-19 crisis and pre-existing China-United States tensions exacerbated during the pandemic will mean a rebalancing of cross-border academic relations,...
The coronavirus pandemic has implications for student and staff mobility and projects funded by EU programmes such as Erasmus+ and...
The number of Chinese students applying for places at British universities has surged by more than a third this year to reach...
Coronavirus: Should I go to university this year? Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Students must decide by the middle of next...
Students who cannot take up places in purpose-built accommodation due to the Covid-19 pandemic will be able to end their...
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows” – Bob Dylan. Anyone working in higher education today...
Next week will mark the fifth World Access to Higher Education Day (WAHED). It may also be the last. Over...
So many students every year go abroad to execute their summer internship as part of their studies or just to...
The University of Cambridge’s Jesus College this week became the first institution to officially hand over a Benin Bronze artefact...
“American colleges and universities are experiencing the largest drop in enrolment in half a century,” said Doug Shapiro, executive director...
With the exception of a few luminaries such as former Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust and feminist professor Judith...
With apologies and accolades to Ronald J Daniels, president of Johns Hopkins University, whose 2021 book title, What Universities Owe Democracy,...
Universities currently negotiate a marked tension between market orientation and addressing community needs. But there is growing concern that, if...
Recently, a senior manager at a university in the United Kingdom expressed displeasure regarding Freedom of Information (FoI) requests placed...
By design, economists’ reports are rather staid, which makes it all the more noticeable that in their 2016 report Black-White Disparity...
The Singapore parliament this week passed legislation to counter foreign interference that could threaten its national security and sovereignty, amid...
Decades of a deliberate set of policies designed to increase the level of collaboration between European universities and research institutes...
Two days after Greta Thunberg stood on a stage at the Youth4Climate summit in Milan and rebuked world leaders for...
Experts and policy-makers have marvelled at the digital transformation of universities during the COVID-19 pandemic – but has access to...
Concern is growing in some quarters in the United States that China is rapidly catching up with the number of...
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