International higher education

Speaker tells European rectors that process of unifying higher education has eroded the rights of individual universities.

Two-year institution in U.S. awarded grant to help Indian institutions improve their career and technical education offerings.

Higher ed groups and U.S. back 11 partnerships in which American universities will help African peer institutions solve -- and take ownership of -- problems they've identified.

Universities establish physical presences abroad -- and some consider new model that would bypass the controversy over commission-based agents.

A leading academic has called for top European universities to be directly funded through the European Union in a bid to ensure that the Continent retains its competitiveness and economic power.

As some American colleges rethink how their programs should encourage students to gain international perspectives, a Chinese university embraces liberal education.

Historically, universities such as Columbia, Oxford, Yale, Princeton and Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have defined their value by exclusivity as much as by excellence. The institutions positioned themselves as purveyors of an important public good — a corps of graduates fit to run a nation — but the classrooms and curriculums that ostensibly transform talented high-schoolers into cardholding members of the adult elite have been walled off from the general public.

Cambridge embraces tuition hike, raising questions for other universities.

Having a doctorate becomes the standard for academic appointments -- a trend that the pending increase in tuition fees may accelerate.

A leading expert on international education warns that cutbacks in funding for British higher education could do long-term damage.