If memorandums of understanding with international institutions are properly developed and put into action, they can contribute a great deal to African universities’ push for internationalisation.
There is a powerful African- born diaspora in North America and its members have much to offer their home continent. How should this relationship be crafted?
Studying in Africa can be enormously valuable for American college students, but only if they’re prepared to venture beyond hotels and lecture halls to really learn about the continent.
Historical prestige is not the only reason why British universities do well at attracting international students – but it helps. Victorian antecedents hint at continuity and esteem. Strong teaching, good…
As higher education has gradually become more commercialised, universities are getting used to employing professional marketers to help develop and manage their reputations and brands. But while the sector…
Mayfair, Belgravia and Kensington: all London boroughs associated with affluence and grandeur, not student accommodation. But today these areas play host to a burgeoning student population. With the internationalisation…
Universities and schools across the globe are offering an increasing number of courses taught in English. Parents and politicians alike are pushing for this change as English is considered a worldwide…
As Iraqis prepare to go to the polls to vote in parliamentary elections ten years on from the invasion, the country is a lifetime away from where things used to be. Iraq’s education system, once one of…
Students have always travelled in search of the best study opportunities and researchers have always collaborated across borders. But until fairly recently, higher education institutions have been stubbornly…
Universities are being urged to seize the opportunity of expanding into India where reforms will radically change the country’s higher education sector in the next decade. In a new report, the British…
Professor of International Education and Development, Faculty of Social Sciences and Academic Champion, Integrating Global Societies Research Priority Area, University of Nottingham