AUSTRALIA: All Australian universities extensively breach the Australian Qualifications Framework. That's not news, as universities mostly ignore the framework. But it demonstrates a systemic failure of quality assurance and the lack of national maintenance of standards in higher education.

AUSTRALIA: Contract research, collaboration and consulting would become difficult for those who managed university inventions under a contentious Federal Court ruling, a technology transfer conference has been warned.

UK: Thirty-one Nobel Peace Prize winners are calling for action to improve education and build peace in war zones.

UK: Warning for UK universities as academic talent is attracted by relaxed visa laws

UK: Universities in Britain will have a brighter future if they focus their international efforts on a long-term program of internationalisation, a move that could include building overseas campuses.

AUSTRALIA: Australia's top universities will lose their global position unless research investment is concentrated in the hands of proven performers, according to a survey of international research funding trends by the Group of Eight.

INDIA: India continues to be the leading country to send maximum number of students to the United States for pursuing higher education for the seventh consecutive year surpassing China, an official report said.

UK: International education is gaining ground in FE as more colleges grasp the need to equip students with the skills for a globalised economy

AUSTRALIA: The University of East London is in the ignominious position of topping a survey of staff bullying in British higher education institutions.

UK: A college has given Tesco vouchers to help hard-up students waiting for their educational maintenance allowances.