(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…
(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…
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…
By Ruth A Pagell (31 Oct 2025) The two issues addressed in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s September webinar were international students and academic freedom. Both topics continue to be in the higher education news, and both topics are covered in Ruth’s Rankings. INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: Fees paid by international students are important to many…
(25 Aug 2025) I apologize for being so far behind on my current Ruth’s Rankings article on Impact, but every morning’s news brings more discouraging postings from my government on its involvement in education and research. It makes rankings seem trivial and it makes my colleagues and I feel helpless. By the time I finished…
(25 Jun 2025) The government has unveiled a NT$19.13 billion (US$647.84 million) subsidy package for universities this year, in response to growing concerns about the impact of population aging on the education sector. This year’s allocation is an increase of NT$568 million compared with the higher education subsidies last year. The current phase of…
(1 May 2025) Two and half years after ChatGPT’s commercial release, the higher education community is still coming to terms with how generative AI technology is impacting teaching, learning, and research. Universities, publishers, and other stakeholders in and around higher education have been obliged to react quickly, creating task forces, new guidelines and policies, and other…
(25 Mar 2025) Taiwanese universities this year canceled 86 programs, Ministry of Education data showed, with educators attributing the closures to the nation’s low birthrate as well as shifting trends. Fifty-three of the shuttered programs were part-time postgraduate degree programs, about 62 percent of the total, the most in the past five years, the data…
Higher education institutions are uniquely positioned to evaluate AI ethics and explore safeguards to promote responsible use at colleges and universities. (18 Mar 2025) When it comes to the ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence, colleges and universities are out in front. Many schools already look to AI to support teaching, learning, research, back-office functions…