Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden from 2014 to 2024 have graduated 82,300 PhD candidates, but they have difficulty recruiting their own national ...

The delay in the 2026 National Institutional Ranking Framework rankings after a large number of withdrawn research papers ...

The researcher rating system of South Africa’s National Research Foundation, or NRF, no longer justifies its costs. The ...

As Nottingham University becomes the latest UK university to announce serious cuts, two new analyses suggest government’s ...

Thinus Booysen’s recent critique of South Africa’s National Research Foundation, or NRF, researcher rating system should not ...

The response of the National Research Foundation, or NRF, to an initial commentary about its researcher rating system concedes that the system’s ...

Higher education increasingly speaks the language of ecosystems. Drawing lessons from nature and emerging experience in Mauritius, the next ...

Soft power is a good reason to build a campus, but only the host’s rules will keep it a university when the relationship ...

African universities have to change their mindset and modus operandi to enable the transition of research outcomes to the market. This requires a ...

Efforts to decolonise higher education in Africa are ongoing and involve policy transfers in higher education curriculum ...

As China seeks to build on its ‘engineer dividend’ – the advantage created by a vast pool of engineers built up over decades – it is ...

Rwanda and Germany recently signed a €16 million (US$18 million) agreement for a project aimed at increasing girls’ participation in ...