Internationalisation

Ambitious target will be smashed as communist state steps up overseas collaboration efforts

Scheme streamlines immigration process for master's courses and allows graduates to stay in the UK for six months in search of work

Botanist warns of continuing political instability and restrictive legislation on science

As Brexit nears, Dublin plans to upgrade the country's language skills

Debate follows news that two UK universities are struggling with projects

Scheme to bolster ties between West and Middle East and Asia backed by 122 researchers, including 29 Nobel laureates

Academic experts on China say the state may now issue demands in collaborations with Western universities 

New programme will build on earlier successes in fields ranging from nanotechnology to sustainable energy

Staff at new UNAM centre will work on research collaborations between both countries

Campaign aims to double international student numbers as state’s universities battle ‘curse of jaw-dropping geography and weather’

The government is working hard to secure the rights of the 33,000 academics from other EU countries who are working in the UK, says immigration minister Brandon Lewis

Latest Home Office statistics also show general rise in visa applications for study at UK universities

Academics are likely to be happier at work if their research involves scholars away from their institution, study reveals

Police crack down on academics for delivering external lectures and supervising exams and PhDs at other universities, saying it breaks work permit rules

Just 18 per cent of undergraduates said they were interested in studying overseas

Academics claim that partnership ‘undermines’ organisation and allows University of Bahrain to ‘normalise’ country’s regime

The UK needs its universities more than ever, and the government needs to realise their importance, says Sir Keith Burnett

Hilary Benn also suggests that UK’s future in Horizon 2020 is not necessarily contingent on free movement

But sector calls for progress on plan to grow overseas student numbers and publication of immigration White Paper

Ivy League institution will recruit artists and writers alongside early career scholars for its new Institute for Ideas and Imagination

British universities face potential challenges if they are left outside the ‘Sorbonne process’, experts warn

Universities Canada says country is ‘known worldwide as a nation that values diversity and inclusion’

Research suggests that students learn better in their native tongue, and English fails to prepare international students for a job after graduation, says Michele Gazzola

Report from Elsevier suggests more collaboration with poorer nations is needed

Report calls for a quarter of Canadian students to study abroad within 10 years

Academic warns universities need to take impact of accent on credibility seriously as it has ‘demotivated’ overseas lecturers

Universities cite concerns around US’ social and political climate in IIE study

UUK International wants every UK university to join its ‘Go International’ campaign, but institutions find it hard to get students to participate in overseas schemes, says Rachael Pells

New programme hopes to take Israel-US 'academic friendship to the next level’

Home secretary said to be seeking to avoid government defeat on post-Brexit immigration bill

Forty per cent of UK business schools report fall in undergraduate applications from the Continent

Minister for higher education says proposed new law will help foreign universities set up outposts in the country

Some academics call for institutions to break all links with the country, while others say educational partnerships are key to building peace

Noura Al-Jizawi hopes her experience at the University of Toronto will help her to transform her homeland into a democracy

Plan explored to prevent ‘chasm’ opening up in enrolment from declining numbers of EU undergraduates

University still hopes to live by its original ‘pan-American’ ideals

Sino-American University aims to offer liberal arts education that will help students ‘respond to the challenges of new technologies’

Canada and Germany also boast high levels of cross-border collaboration, Elsevier data show

New Zealand-based academic and Australian citizen Vicki Spencer on being refused entry to the US – despite complying with all visa regulations

Event marks four decades of a programme showcasing Castro’s ideals

China and India targeted by drive to recruit more than 100,000 extra students from outside EU

Businesses prefer graduates with international experience, writes Sir Ciarán Devane, and universities must take note

Academic says he is ‘wary’ of applying for projects that involve extended periods of time overseas

Initiative to bring in US scientists causes backlash among scientists awaiting funding at home

Meeting should help develop scientific networks between the nation and European partners

Institutions that are well connected to ‘global transportation hubs’ rise up league tables faster, study finds

Doha offshoots are also integrating courses with goal of providing ‘unique’ value to students

Accurate translation apps could have a ‘major impact’ on academia, some scholars believe, but others unconvinced

Canadian institution targeting thousands of French applicants who fail to gain place at home

While proportion of foreign faculty at Japanese universities has increased, study finds no rise in share of leaders

Academics worldwide volunteer space in labs and homes, but Puerto Rican relief efforts are slow to get off the ground

Countries with the most open immigration policies for scholars have stronger scientific impact, reports suggest

Political climate and anti-immigration policies in US are blamed as UK and Canada report increase in applications

Figures from Elsevier's Scopus database suggest study into topic has unusually low rate of collaboration

Stephen Toope says universities must continue to work across borders even as societies become more inward looking

US survey finds development of curiosity, leadership and work ethic unaffected by length of international experience

Cost of compliance with Home Office rules uncovered by Study Group

Association of Commonwealth Universities and Commonwealth Secretariat strike agreement

Greater democratic development in post-Soviet nations when students head for EU rather than Russia, study finds