(25 Feb 2026) Coursera’s first AI in Higher Education Report explores AI use and attitudes among students and educators globally. Capturing responses to a survey of over 4,200 university faculty and college students in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico, the report found that nearly all students and educators are now using…
(17 Feb 2026) The novelty of generative AI is behind us. In 2026, Indian higher education will no longer be asking whether AI will disrupt campuses but how to embed it responsibly into everyday academic life. With India’s tech industry expected to cross US$280 billion in annual revenue and AI projected to add about US$1.7…
(18 Feb 2026) The Indonesian president has announced plans to build 10 new universities in an aggressive move to meet the demand for medical personnel, including doctors and dentists. The new universities will focus largely on medical education, dentistry, pharmacy, and science and technology fields, the president said during a visit to London on…
(5 Feb 2026) The United Kingdom’s Office for Students (OfS), the nation’s higher education regulator, released a damning report about Regent College London (RCL), saying that the school’s staff failed to give students adequate instruction and even encouraged them to cheat on assessments. According to the report, students at RCL received grades that were “excessive and not…
(16 Dec 2025) This year, 22 million new learners joined Coursera — nearly 82,000 people every day. A typical day saw 150,000 enrollments, 14 enrollments every minute in GenAI courses, and the launch of 10 new pieces of content. Most popular courses in 2025 from industry partners Foundations: Data, Data, Everywhere (Google) AI For Everyone (DeepLearning.AI) Introduction to Generative AI (Google Cloud) Foundations of…
(9 Dec 2025) This article is written by Edward M. Corrado, University Librarian at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Here’s the abstract: Every year EDUCAUSE releases a list of the top ten issues that are impacting information technology (IT) in higher education institutions. Although the list focuses on college and university IT…
(11 Dec 2025) AppliedHE today announced the results of the inaugural AppliedHE Public & Private University Rankings: ALL ASIA, the first Asia-wide university ranking that separately recognizes both public and private universities while placing student feedback and employability outcomes at the heart of its methodology. This new ranking responds to the growing demand for…
By Ruth A Pagell* (2 Dec 2025) The U.S. government’s shutdown during October and November resulted in similar topics for the October and Novembers webinars. The presenters for these two webinars updated the September presentation, focused on Trump’s “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education”, and covered questions from participants based on pervious discussions. The…
(5 Nov 2025) Recently, ABC News reported that a Murdoch University student was taking legal action over what he claims are false allegations of unauthorized AI use in an assignment. In subsequent weeks, another report from the same outlet revealed that several Australian universities had been using AI to detect AI in student work, sparking debate over…
Global higher education policies are often underpinned by bibliometric performance metrics. While these targets ostensibly aim at raising the quality of academic work, Aikerim Bektemirova argues in authoritarian states they can be deployed to discipline and constrain academic freedom. (29 Aug 2025) Across the world, academic metrics (journal impact factors, citation indexes and university rankings)…