Global higher education leaders gathered in Birmingham to plan for a better future student experience at the Universitas21 General Meeting.

Students from 16 U21 universities have competed for the RISE Awards for Impact, Innovation, and Potential – U21’s newest student opportunity.

The U21 Award for internationalisation has been awarded to two academics in Asia, John Spinks of HKU and Kazuo Kuroda of Waseda University, Japan.

The top five countries are the US, Switzerland, the UK, Sweden and Denmark. The only change from 2017 is an inversion of Denmark and Sweden's positions.

Former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, has been announced as the recipient of the 2016 Gilbert Medal of Internationalisation, awarded by Universitas 21, which celebrates internationalisation in higher education.

Allan Goodman, president and CEO of the Institute of International Education (IIE) in the USA has been awarded the first ever Gilbert Medal by international research university network, Universitas 21. A ceremony will be held in May at Lund University, Sweden to present the first-of-its-kind award...