The higher education sector in Pakistan is at a critical juncture, facing issues that undermine its foundations and threaten its role in national progress. The recent appointment of bureaucrats as ...

Academic freedom is often described as a cornerstone of democratic society. Politicians regularly claim to defend it, universities invoke it in mission statements and most members of the public say ...

Britain and the United States have a long history and tradition of building lasting educational institutions. The universities of Oxford and Harvard have over 1,000 and 400 years of history behind ...

University of Helsinki participated in drawing up a declaration on academic freedom and institutional autonomy, approved at the Global Forum on Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy, and the Future ...

When my daughters were in high school, they both played on various teams. Soccer, cross-country running, cross-country skiing and tennis. Games and tournaments often started in the late afternoon.

The Yash Pal Committee report on renovation and rejuvenation of higher education has been hanging fire after it was submitted to the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development two years ago.

It’s not just about Gaza. It’s about academic freedom, faculty autonomy and the boundaries between scholarship and activism. Like many of you, I’m approaching the fall semester with dread. Not the ...

A consultation paper on the state of the University was launched by the government last April. Caught up in the run-up to the electoral campaign, very little has been written about it, though some ...

Many South African universities are making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Instead of profiling their intellectual breakthroughs and recent innovations, stories of intimidation, nepotism, ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With higher education institutions in the state continuing their lack lustre performance, academic autonomy seems to be emerging as an alternative for instilling them with fresh ...

Addis Ababa, June 27, 2026 (ENA)_ Addis Ababa University’s transition to an autonomous institution has unlocked profound ...

Twenty-seven of the 43 colleges in the state that have been consistently getting the highest ratings from NAAC in the last three cycles are from Mumbai. Under the revised UGC guidelines, the ...