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International education is going through a tumultuous period in the United States. After some post-pandemic stability in student visa issuance during 2022 and 2023, significant declines and shifts in student visa policy in 2025, continuing into 2026, have added multiple layers of complexity for international students and their families as they consider the United States as a higher education destination.

Yale, Duke, MIT, Texas A&M and Georgetown were some of the most prominent US universities to embark on cross-border partnerships in the last 25 years. They were seeking to create sustained and meaningful academic relationships that connected diverse cultural and political environments.

Academics in Pakistan are facing growing demands and salary stagnation, but the problem is not just about pay. It is also about the growing separation...

As the higher education sector prepares to convene at the 28th Annual International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) Conference in KuGompo City (formerly East London) in the Eastern Cape later this year, internationalisation finds itself at a defining and deeply contested moment of transition.

South Africa does not need to decommission the PhD. It needs to be re-engineered for the country, continent and future we are trying to build.

The Ethiopian Higher Education Proclamation No 1152/2019 grants public universities the authority to nominate presidents and vice presidents through their respective boards. The Ministry of Education then appoints a university president from the shortlist submitted by the board members, who are, themselves, appointed by the ministry.

There is an ongoing debate globally around the relevance of higher education centred on the tension between traditional academic models and the urgent need for job-market alignment, technology integration, and social equity. In South Africa, these debates are intensified by a severe resource and capacity crisis, high youth unemployment, and the ongoing push for decolonisation.

A long-awaited bill to crack down on abuses in the buoyant French for-profit higher education sector has begun its journey through parliament but might not become law for quite some time.

A landmark decision in April by the Japanese government to revise the country’s decades-old arms export ban as well as permit exports of lethal weapons has led to mixed responses in the higher education academic sector that has long resisted any military-linked research.

A University of Leeds-led research partnership is bringing together experts from the UK and India to address some of the most critical challenges facing rapidly growing cities.