The World View

The manner in which scholarships are rolled out has evolved as higher education delivery and opportunity have diversified on the African continent.

By Damtew Teferra

Four years after the Science Without Borders Program launch, additional actions must be made a priority in order to achieve expected objectives

By Luciane Stallivieri

AHELO is the higher education equivalent of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Not everyone is keen on this.

By Alex Usher

Emerging and developing countries that are promoting inbound and outbound mobility should be more realistic about their prospects of attracting international students.

By Hans de Wit

Few of us were surprised by the revelations made on Four Corners, Australia's investigative current affairs program, that alleged that several universities engage in ethically dubious practices when it comes to recruiting international students.

By Andrys Onsman

The information requested by the U-Multirank questionnaire is difficult to obtain from many Latin American universities

By Ana García de Fanelli

The methodologies of the traditional rankings are problematic because of simplistic assumptions about validity and incorrect statistical operations.

By Frans van Vught and Frank Ziegele

Rankings too often become a surrogate for quality but we have to recognize that there is a general need to make sense of the diverse global higher education environment.

By Liz Reisberg