Category: The Fifteen

Most universities in the northern hemisphere are now back to school and, bow howdy, they are generating a lot of stories. While the big global story this outing has to do with a new global report on academic freedom, there is some quite amazing news on private universities out of India, important new quality assurance measures in Spain and the UAE, and simply countless instances of national self-harm in the United States and the United Kingdom. Buckle up! Never a

Hi everyone. The Fifteen is back, bringing you news on the biggest developments in higher education around the world from the last two weeks. Let’s get right to it! And that’s it for now. See you back here in two weeks.

Morning, all. The higher education news never stops. In addition to the usual stories of American universities being subjected to increasingly absurd right-wing assaults, there’s some interesting stuff happening in places that don’t often make the Fifteen, including the Czech Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iceland, and Panama. Let’s go check it out. That’s it for now folks, see you back here in September. 

Morning all. It’s been a pretty crazy couple of weeks, with all sorts of bizarre stuff happening in Latin America, a strange construction deal in Madagascar, politically-motivated campus closures in Türkiye, budget news from Austria and Australia, mergers in the UK, and much more. Let’s get to it. That’s it for now. Back in two weeks for the last fifteen before the summer break.

Morning everyone. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks in global higher education, with a lot of countries dealing with very similar issues. I’m not just talking about the canvas hack here: we also have a lot of action on culling academic programs and dealing with issues in student dormitories. But this edition also touches on universities for sale in Finland, student aid disasters in South Africa, spy schools in Russia, fake philology awards in France, a very interesting rector’s