Stakeholders warned that academic freedom is increasingly under threat worldwide at a recent UN Human Rights Council and Scholars at Risk event.

The Charter will establish an African-centred framework, providing guiding principles as well as measures of success and accountability

Enabling a story-telling environment for international educators to develop and build intercultural confidence is gaining ground with a UNESCO-backed initiative.

Australia has officially joined a UNESCO framework allowing qualifications from its institutions to be recognised internationally.

International Education Day 2023 is being marked across the globe, with the driving theme behind this year’s iteration bringing the education of Afghan women and girls into focus, UNESCO has said.

Despite such levels of government and international spending, education outcomes are at crisis levels. The World Bank’s most recent update estimates that 89% of 10-year-olds in the Sub-Saharan Africa cannot read a simple sentence

There is really an issue of a raison d'etre and survival for universities

Some European countries have committed to paying compensation for the impact of climate change on low-carbon emission countries – a move which campaigners within the international education sector say is “particularly relevant” to the industry.