The World View

Measures recently enacted by the President of Brazil raise serious concerns about the future of higher education.

According to March data, the number of international students in Ukraine reflected a 13 perccnt increase over the previous year.

While funding remains the major obstacle to progress, funding increased for all internationalization activities during the last three years at a majority of institutions worldwide.

Lots in store for the Indian higher education in 2019. The higher education environment may appear normal on the surface, but many academics are worried.

Most of the various “excellence schemes” adopted all over the world in the first years of this century have made precious little difference in terms of shaking up the global academic hierarchy

We should not prequalify or preclude international academic engagement based on a government’s political dogma or policies—until government policy begins to interfere with open, uninhibited scholarship or abuses research for nefarious purposes.

There has long been a private higher education sector in the UK made up of colleges of professional training and niche providers offering vocational subjects outside the Universities’ traditional remit.

Institutions emphasize importance of diversity, globalization and democracy as critical responses to the rising tides of isolationism and nationalism, but international students have experienced something else.