. DAAD has been involved in academic exchange with Tunisia for more than 30 years, focusing especially on grants for young engineers and on German studies programmes.

. Harvard University (pictured) is followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the University of California – Berkeley, and Stanford University

. Universities from Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego are part of an increased push to make campuses more inviting for students from the northern hemisphere, said Fernando Leon Garcia, president of Mexico’s private university, CETYS – Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superio.

With universities experiencing their worst unrest in years, Egypt’s military-backed authorities have ordered police deployment on campuses to maintain order during the mid-year examinations that run until late January

Some universities in areas hit by typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines managed to resume classes last week. But others, in the worst-hit eastern Visayas region, may have to be rebuilt

As students trooped back to class following the end of the six-month academic strike at public universities in Nigeria, lecturers put monitoring and implementation committees in place to ensure the disbursement and judicious use of special intervention funds aimed at gradually erasing infrastructural decay on campuses

The Commission on Higher Education, or CHED, announced this month that it is studying the proposed moving of the beginning of the academic year from June at present to August or September, in common with other ASEAN countries

As the United Nations called for fresh elections following a violent and dubious poll in Bangladesh, a government move to open up the country’s higher education market to foreign universities and branch campuses faced strong opposition from private universities

An international team of biologists has created a world map showing which regions are most and which are least vulnerable to climate change. The biologists note that this is one of the key areas that will be examined next year in a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change whose latest report on the science of climate change…

A new scholar exchange initiative offering 100 fellowships to African-born academics living in North America, to work in and forge research partnerships with African universities, has been launched by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The ambitious aim is “to turn the continent’s ‘brain drain’ into ‘brain gain

At the 5th European Innovation Summit, big names in research agreed that it was high time for a ‘wake up Europe’ call. A five-point declaration addressed to European Union policy-makers and member states was agreed after several speakers sought to identify ways to remove obstacles in the way of Europe becoming a successful innovation…

Four of the world’s major research university groups released a joint statement in China on 10 October outlining the characteristics of contemporary research universities as the next step towards establishing an international network of the four associations.

The Russian government is hoping to attract the country’s major industrial companies to invest in establishing higher education institutions and chairs in top universities, to prepare highly skilled employees and produce research for their sectors

British, Canadian and African universities have been partnering with the University of Hargeisa, in the breakaway state of Somaliland, to boost the institution’s international credibility and the recognition of its qualifications

Monash South Africa and Laureate Education have unveiled a partnership agreement that will enable the local higher education provider operated by Australia’s Monash University to expand its student enrolment and academic offerings