The "Higher Education Futures" conference held in Singapore from 14 to 15 October was an initiative jointly organised by the OECD in partnership with the Singapore ministry for education.

Meeting the global challenge of building equitable knowledge economies was the theme of an international conference organised by the Global Access to Post-Secondary Education, or GAPS, initiative in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 5 to 8 October. Yojana Sharma reports for University World News.

The 9th Annual Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference was held in the South African city of Durban last week, under the theme “Re-imagining Higher Education Policy Implementation: Can policy learn from practice?” The University of KwaZulu-Natal conference attracted education researchers from across the country, Africa and the world.

The European Association of International Education, or EAIE conference, with 5,050 participants from 90 countries, took place in Glasgow, Scotland, last week. It opened with a speech from human rights and civil liberties champion Baroness Helena Kennedy. University World News reports.

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.