The International Council for Open and Distance Education, or ICDE, is holding its world conference in the mega-resort Sun City near Johannesburg from 14-16 October, hosted by the University of South Africa. University World News is the media partner. This is the sixth of a series of articles that engage with global ideas and developments in open and distance learning, around the conference theme of “Growing Capacities for Sustainable Distance e-Learning Provision”.

More than 1,200 participants descended on the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London, across the road from the UK’s Houses of Parliament, on 1-2 June for the British Council’s Going Global conference, described by the hosts as the world’s largest gathering of international education leaders concerned with the future of tertiary education. University World News is a media partner and this is the second of two special reports on the conference.

The Association of Commonwealth Universities and the Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association held a major international conference in Johannesburg from 10-14 May, attended by nearly 500 people from 44 countries. The theme was “Research and Innovation for Global Challenges”. University World News was there and brings you this second of two special reports.

For five decades the International Association of University Presidents, or IAUP, has served as the voice of global higher education, promoting peace, mutual understanding and respect through academic diplomacy and fostering the vitality and reach of higher education institutions through energetic international partnerships. In Oxford last week nearly 150 university leaders and other participants from 37 countries gathered for its 50th Anniversary Conference to celebrate IAUP’s achievements and consider the challenges facing higher education and the wider world in the next 50 years. University World News is IAUP’s media partner.

"Research and Innovation for Global Challenges" was the theme of a major international conference hosted by the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association in Johannesburg last week and attended by nearly 500 people from 44 countries. University World News was there and brings you this first of two special reports on the event.

Students at the University of Cape Town won the campus debate over the statue of Cecil John Rhodes, which is to be removed. In the past week several organisations have come out in support of the student view and activism has spread to other campuses, where students are also demanding the fall of symbols of imperialism. Here are three very different points of view.

This is the third and final special report on the African Higher Education Summit held in the Senegalese capital, Dakar from 10-12 March under the theme “Revitalising Higher Education for Africa’s Future”. University World News was a media partner to the summit.

The African Higher Education Summit on “Revitalising Higher Education for Africa’s Future”, held in Senegal’s capital Dakar from 10-12 March, was the first continental gathering of the sector. Crucially, in terms of political support and continental clout, the African Union Commission was one of the partners and its Chair Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma attended. University World News was there, and was a media partner to the summit.

A new book, Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education, will be launched at the African Higher Education Summit being held in Senegal's capital Dakar next week. It is the latest publication of HERANA – the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa – which for the past seven years has been investigating higher education in eight African countries. This special report highlights key findings arising from the research, which is led by the Centre for Higher Education Transformation and funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. University World News is a media partner to both HERANA and the Dakar summit.