France pledged to replace Parcoursup, its national online university admissions platform, in 2028 after weeks of student protests over education and living costs. Higher Education Minister Philippe Baptiste promised 'substantial change' for 2027 first. Students have criticised unclear selection criteria and unequal access to preferred courses.
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Indian institutions are moving from blanket AI bans to controlled use in classes and assessments. At IISER Pune, AI is now permitted by default unless a teacher or PhD supervisor prohibits it in writing. ISB, IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore are also reworking teaching and assessment.
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IIT Bombay is taking applications for CEED 2027 for its Master of Design and PhD programmes, and BITS Design School has opened applications for its four-year residential BDes (Honours) for 2027, Education Times reports. The University of Strathclyde and NICMAR have also opened admission portals.
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Newly released SAT scores show only one in four Michigan 11th graders met the college-readiness mark, against 26.6% last year and roughly 35% a decade ago. Educators say the scores do not tell the whole story, University of Michigan professor Matt Diemer told Local 4.
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The University of Doha for Science and Technology has opened admissions for Fall 2027 to students from Qatar and abroad, with online applications for master's, bachelor's and diploma programmes. It has 12 types of scholarships and fee exemptions. Qatari nationals and children of Qatari women keep undergraduate fee exemptions.
Read more at qatar-tribune.com →The Bar Council of India closed registration for the All India Bar Examination XXII on October 27. The fee can be paid until October 28, corrections run until October 30 and admit cards come on November 14. The exam on November 29 grants the Certificate of Practice.
Read more at The Indian Express →NTA opened the correction window for the Rashtriya Military School Common Entrance Test on October 27 and 28 at nta.ac.in. Candidate and parent names can be changed, but not mobile number, email, address, emergency contacts or photograph. The photograph, it seems, is final.
Read more at Hindustan Times →The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is expected to announce CA Foundation September 2026 results soon, though it has not confirmed a date or time, News18 reports. Results will be on caresults.icai.org. The CA Intermediate results are already out, with two joint toppers.
Read more at News18 →The Jharkhand Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board has allowed candidates to object to the provisional state merit list for round one of NEET PG 2026 counselling. Correction requests with supporting documents must reach the board by 5 pm on October 28, Careers360 reports.
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New Zealand made four student visa changes effective immediately. Master's-by-research students lose unlimited in-study work rights, English ability becomes an explicit visa factor, and INZ can suspend processing in more circumstances. The fourth change gives students more time after their course to decide their next step.
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A survey of over 4,800 mostly prospective students found visa uncertainty is pushing interest away from Australia. Twenty-four per cent named it their preferred destination, down from 31% six months earlier. The UK and US were each top choice for 21%, up from 19% and 14%.
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Australia has reduced student visa fees for eligible applicants from 23 Southeast Asian and Pacific Island countries plus Timor-Leste, below the standard AUD 2,500 charge. Kenya is not on the reported list, so Kenyan students should check the charges before applying, Education News Kenya reports.
Read more at educationnews.co.ke →Adelaide University faces a projected A$90 million revenue shortfall after first-semester international enrolments fell 40% below target. Stricter visas and higher fees have hit students from countries including Nigeria, Kenya, India, Nepal and Bangladesh, and international numbers are down 8% nationwide, though Flinders has grown.
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Deakin, Wollongong, UNSW, Victoria University and the University of Western Australia have opened campuses in India, in Mumbai and Chennai, Education Minister Jason Clare said. Western Sydney University is preparing one in Greater Noida. He said international education need not depend only on students travelling to Australia.
Read more at The Australia Today →Australia has raised the cost, paperwork and scrutiny of student visas to deter non-genuine students. The English requirement rose from IELTS 5.5 to 6.0 in March 2024, and the visa fee more than doubled from $710 to $1,600 in July 2024. Repeated onshore 'visa hopping' has also been restricted.
Read more at macrobusiness.com.au →Canada's IRCC confirmed international students working off campus are limited to 24 hours a week while classes are in session. It warned that exceeding the limit violates study permit conditions and carries serious consequences. Graduates face separate checks for a post-graduation work permit, TUKO reports.
Read more at Tuko →New OECD indicators show international mobility rising at master's and doctoral level, with especially high foreign shares in Luxembourg, New Zealand and Switzerland. International students are substantially more likely than domestic ones to graduate in STEM, and even stricter countries are making exceptions for advanced-degree applicants.
Read more at ICEF Monitor →About 5% of the world's 7.3 million international students study in Germany, roughly five times its share of world population, The PIE News reports. Five years ago the debate centred on the English-speaking big four. Germany now sits in what ICEF calls the big 14, with Ireland, France and Malaysia.
Read more at The PIE News →China remains Malaysia's largest source of international students, but its share of applications fell from about 41% in 2023 to about 27% in the first four months of 2026, Education Malaysia Global Services said. Applications from South Asia and Central Asia each grew 41% in 2025.
Read more at malaymail.com →Allianz Partners New Zealand has partnered with Sonder so Studentsafe Inbound insurance policyholders, and family members aged 18 or older, get confidential round-the-clock medical, safety and wellbeing support at no extra cost from October 2026. The service works by chat, phone or in person in over 300 languages.
Read more at insuranceasia.com →Australia absorbed 61% of all Asia Pacific capital deployed in student housing in the first half of 2026 while holding just 13% of the region's beds, JLL research shows. Greystar, Mapletree and M&G have entered the market. Students looking for a room may note who else is.
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Nigeria's Education Minister Tunji Alausa said the government will offer scholarships to medical students to build local expertise in robotic surgery. He spoke at the opening of the RHV-ROBOMED Robotic Academy at Redemption City, Ogun State, which aims to train surgeons at home rather than abroad.
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SNEPCo, with NNPC and partners, invited applications for the 2026 NNPC-SNEPCo National University Scholarship. It is open to Nigerian full-time 200-level students at NUC-accredited public universities with a CGPA of at least 3.5 on a five-point scale. Winners get a yearly grant until graduation.
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The Deepika scholarship, launched in September 2025 by Karnataka with the Azim Premji Foundation, gives eligible girl students ₹30,000 a year towards a degree or diploma. It aimed to support more than 37,000 girls from 2025-26, and the 2026-27 cycle is under way.
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The Greater Shepparton Foundation's Lift Off Education Scholarship, running since 2014, is open to young people moving from secondary school to further study in the Goulburn Valley. Last year it awarded 18 scholarships worth up to $10,000 each. Applications are on the foundation's website.
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Shanghai Ocean University's 2027 Chinese Government Scholarship covers tuition, shared accommodation, a living stipend and medical insurance for international master's and PhD students, including Pakistanis, with applications closing on February 1, 2027. The stipend amount has not been stated, which is a detail worth asking about.
Read more at en.dailypakistan.com.pk →Foundation for Excellence is accepting applications from first-year Engineering, MBBS and LLB students across India until December 31, 2026, at ffe.org/scholarships. Awards of ₹50,000 or more are based on merit and financial need, and applicants must have entered through a recognised entrance exam.
Read more at indiaeducationdiary.in →Nigerian students starting a first undergraduate degree at a federal or state university can apply for the Awareness Africa University Scholarship 2026/2027, worth up to ₦500,000 towards school fees and compulsory registration charges. It targets students facing financial difficulty. Applications close on October 31, 2026.
Read more at msmeafricaonline.com →IIT Gandhinagar will host the grand finale of the GIFT FutureLab Grand Challenge 2026-27, a national contest for technology ideas in financial services. Students and researchers can apply alone or in teams until November 12. Areas include AI-based financial systems, digital assets and programmable finance.
Read more at The Indian Express →Many fully funded master's and doctoral scholarships in Europe begin accepting applications from October 2026, Vietnam.vn reports. Erasmus Mundus master's programmes run across two to four universities for up to two years and cover tuition, living costs, airfare and visas. Most accept applications between October and January.
Read more at Vietnam.vn →The IL Corn Growers Association is accepting applications for its 2027 programme, awarding five $2,000 scholarships to high school seniors and college students pursuing agriculture degrees. Applications are due January 31, 2027. ICGA president Mark Bunselmeyer said agriculture needs smart people in the field, the lab and the statehouse.
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Breaking into the world's top 100 has become a common ambition among Korean universities, but QS and THE caution against ranking-driven strategies and urge schools to build on distinct strengths in the last of a Korea Times series. The advice from the scorekeepers is to stop watching the score.
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Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University ranked fourth in the US and 12th globally for case impact in the Financial Times Executive MBA Ranking 2026, ahead of Ross, Haas and Wharton. The measure tracks the reach and classroom use of teaching cases written by faculty.
Read more at news.asu.edu →TIME and Statista ranked 500 US universities and colleges for 2026 to 2027 on student outcomes, learning environment and attractiveness, with outcomes worth 75% of the score. Harvard, Princeton and Stanford top the list, while some California colleges beat several Ivy League schools.
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Southeast Missouri State University ranked 14th among Midwest public universities in the 2027 U.S. News ranking, up from 22nd, making it Missouri's top public university on that list. It also rose 39 places to 61st among top performers in social mobility.
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The University of Montenegro has been ranked in ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects for physics for the first time, in the 401 to 500 group for 2026. It is the only university from Montenegro on the list and scored better than four regional universities on citations and international cooperation.
Read more at Vijesti →City University of Hong Kong has 31 scholars on ScholarGPS's 2026 Highly Ranked Scholars lifetime list, the most among Hong Kong institutions. ScholarGPS selects the top 0.05% by publications, citations and h-index from data on over 30 million scholars, naming 14,466 worldwide this year.
Read more at en.antaranews.com →Ritwik Banerjee, professor and chair of economics at IIM Bangalore, has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, an ABDC A*-ranked journal. He studied economics at JNU, took a PhD at Aarhus University and was a visiting scholar at Harvard in 2015.
Read more at Mint →IIT Kanpur's Centre for Educational Research and Teaching Excellence hosted a workshop on AI in higher education with Banaras Hindu University and Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University. Faculty from the three discussed classroom use, assessment in the age of AI and ethics, with all three heads opening the event.
Read more at Elets Digital Learning →The Islamic University of Science and Technology in Awantipora signed an MoU with the YUVA Innovation Hub of IIM Jammu under Mission YUVA to support entrepreneurship and youth-led enterprise in Jammu and Kashmir. It covers knowledge exchange, mentorship, capacity building and institutional support for aspiring founders.
Read more at knskashmir.com →Kyiv School of Economics has signed a five-year memorandum with King's College London under the UK-Ukraine Twinning Initiative, which pairs universities from both countries. The partnership covers education, research and international programmes, opening new opportunities for KSE students and faculty.
Read more at kse.ua →Brandeis University is closing its English Language Programs, an on-campus service offering one-to-one sessions mainly for non-native speakers and international students, citing financial concerns, The Justice reports. Over 50 graduate students at the Heller School signed a petition asking the administration to reconsider.
Read more at thejustice.org →University of Leicester vice-chancellor Nishan Canagarajah is donating £100,000 through monthly salary sacrifice to the '2121: Founders of the Future' campaign, which aims to raise £100 million. His gift goes to the Student Success Fund. He funded his own Cambridge studies through philanthropic scholarships.
Read more at Times Higher Education →A judge has rejected the Office for Students' bid for a 10% discount on the University of Sussex's legal costs after the regulator lost their free speech case, citing the university's 'overall success'. The OfS had set aside £660,000 for the case. Sussex had challenged a £585,000 fine.
Read more at Times Higher Education →Small US colleges are starting or reviving football to boost shrinking enrolment. Azusa Pacific dropped the sport in 2020 after 55 years and Whittier in 2022 after 115 years, and both are back on the field. A football roster can number about 100 players, which is a lot of tuition.
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Jharkhand's Governor's Secretariat issued notices to 17 universities and colleges for failing to refund fees to students who cancelled admissions, acting on a UGC complaint. UGC data shows ₹4 lakh owed to a BIT Mesra computer science student, and ₹1.61 lakh and ₹1.21 lakh to NUSRL law students.
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Check Point ranks education as the most cyber-attacked of 23 sectors, with an average institution facing 4,696 attacks a week from January to July 2026, and 7,452 in Asia-Pacific. The writer argues India's DPDP Act makes campuses liable for student data, so policies must be real, not paper.
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NEP 2020 allows multiple entry and exit options, and universities are exploring flexible undergraduate pathways. The debate grew after former IIT Delhi director V. Ramgopal Rao questioned the IITs' 'one size fits all' approach and suggested five-year BTech programmes letting students finish at different paces.
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Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi said rote learning must give way to experiential learning, as students and parents have become fixated on marks. He spoke at the launch of an experience centre at CBSE's office complex in Dwarka. He called the mindset a different kind of 'marks-waadi'.
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Kenya's President William Ruto said that from January 2027 no student at a university, TVET institution or KMTC will be sent home over unpaid fees. He said legislation for a new higher education financing framework has been sent to Parliament, so students can learn regardless of parents' finances.
Read more at educationnews.co.ke →Gwangju University's dormitory ran a K-street food programme on Thursday and Friday where international students made and tasted kimbap and tteokbokki. Dormitory director Kang Hyeon-seung said he hoped it was 'a small help' in adjusting to life in Korea. Orientation, it turns out, works better with rice cakes.
Read more at mbiz.heraldcorp.com →A delegation of students and teachers from the Central University of Tamil Nadu arrived at Delhi University for the seventh phase of Yuva Sangam, a cultural exchange under the Education Ministry's Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat programme. The inauguration was held at DU's Vice-Regal Lodge.
Read more at Careers360 →A six-member University Grants Commission committee headed by Prof Abdullah-Al-Mamun is visiting Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology to resolve a stalemate that has suspended classes and exams for over a month. It will meet teachers, students and officials before recommending how to resume classes.
Read more at The Daily Star →BUILA chair Stuart Easter writes in The PIE that institutions need a transparent and consistent basis for understanding risk and timely visa outcome data to meet the UK's Basic Compliance Assessment while pursuing the international education strategy. BUILA supports a robust framework that protects the student route.
Read more at The PIE News →Korea opened caregiver visas to international students two years ago to tackle a caregiver shortage, but only 41 students on D-2 or D-10 visas had applied as of September, government data shows. Universities want clearer career paths, job placement support and simpler visas.
Read more at Korea JoongAng Daily →Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025 has entered Guinness World Records as the largest innovation solution competition, with 2,87,967 project submissions. Education Minister Pralhad Joshi will felicitate 10 national winning teams on Wednesday, when the ministry also launches guidelines for teacher education institutions under ULLAS.
Read more at EdexLive →Podium Education's Career Discovery, a for-credit first-year course with hands-on employer projects such as consumer interviews for L'Oréal, has expanded to 10 universities, Inside Higher Ed reports. Early surveys show gains in career confidence and intent to persist. Students get to change their minds on credit.
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