Many Syrian youth in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey feel that scholarship provision is inadequate and they are offered are ‘leftover’ spaces at institutions, according to a new study.

Universities have a big role to play in the UN's HeForShe campaign, aiming to establish gender parity worldwide, leaders said at the Going Global conference in South Africa this month.

So just what did delegates learn from our interactive session with real live international students? Closer contact throughout a student's application, studies and beyond graduation was one major theme to emerge from our Going Global session. Read on to find out more.

The former Universities Minister, David Willetts, used his platform at the British Council's Going Global conference this week to lament the lack of Treasury support to extend student loan funding for English students to cover periods of study abroad.

Last week's global policy conference on international education, Going Global, was opened by demographic expert Hans Rosling, an engaging statistician who confirmed that the proportion of young people who need education is the highest it has ever been.

Going Global, the British Council's conference for leaders in international education, convened in Dubai this week. The conference actually spurred dynamic debate over the need for knowledge-based economies that are international in scope, digitalised in format, and economically-aware in terms of educational delivery.

More than 500 university presidents, vice-chancellors, and sector leaders attended the British Council's flagship conference, Going Global. Government deal-makers were in attendance and behind the scenes there was a summit on unilateral approaches to the quality of the international student experience attended by key Western countries.