The report, which draws on statistics from European Union (EU) member countries and recent analyses and policy developments, finds numerous weaknesses and gaps in the higher education sector in Europe – although little that is not already widely known.

. The “International Higher Education Research and Policy Roundtable” was organised by the Center for International Higher Education, or CIHE, at Boston College in the United States, and held from 2-3 November.

Swami Vivekanand Subharti University in Meerut, north-east of Delhi, suspended the students after they allegedly shouted pro-Pakistan slogans on campus after an Asia Cup cricket match they had watched on television on 2 March, in which Pakistan beat India.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection under the Communist Party is conducting the investigation as part of an ongoing government anti-corruption drive.

The government established the review panel following widespread protests by medical researchers across the country earlier this year, when it was feared the National Health and Medical Research Council, or NH&MRC was facing an A$400 million cut in its budget.

Shaikh Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council member and ruler of Sharjah, has offered a 1,000-square-metre plot in Sharjah’s University City to the Islamic Virtual University, which will be built at his expense.

Last month the Ministry of Higher Education announced that three parliamentary bills would be presented to the Universities Council to determine whether women students should be allowed to wear the niqab, a move that a union leader has condemned as undemocratic

With nearly all of Germany’s higher education system having adapted to a shorter higher secondary school period, it is now the turn of North Rhine-Westphalia to face a sudden surge in student numbers that are also swelling because of the end of military conscription.

The study, “Higher Education Scenario in India”, was conducted by the Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India, or ASSOCHAM, and is yet to be published.

After hearing a petition filed by students, the court directed the University Grants Commission (UGC) to admit additional students to local universities. Accordingly, an extra 5,609 students will be admitted – a 25% increase over the normal intake.

Higher Education Minister SB Dissanayake took the decision to reopen universities based on powers vested in him under the University Act. The ministry announced that 15 universities and six higher education institutes would resume operating, but did not provide reasons.

Professor Malcolm Gillies, vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University (LMU), told the BBC flagship Today programme on Tuesday that it was seeking to have the revocation of its Highly Trusted Status by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) stayed

A European University Association review that set out to examine mobility strategies at European universities stumbled across the persistent problem of gathering reliable and comparable data on mobility, designed a set of tools to alleviate it and in the process compiled a most interesting snapshot of the current state of affairs in Europe.…

“Students suffered marginalisation due to injustices of an era, which passed and will not return,” Mursi told a student gathering in Cairo.

Both are right, but actually the Danish interpretation seems a better conclusion of the gist of the review than the OECD’s own