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A group of academics has urged the central government not to sign a treaty at an upcoming World Trade Organization meeting that they said would turn higher education into a business, encourage foreign universities to set up shop in India, and drive fees through the roof, reports The Telegraph India.India and 48 other World Trade Organization, or WTO, member countries had in 2005 offered to make higher education a ‘tradable service’ and would this month face pressure to implement it, the academics said. The treaty's features, they said, would include: a level playing field for all universities and colleges – private or public-funded, Indian or foreign; the removal of any government regulation over education fees; and a nod to profits being distributed among the shareholders.

The government will make it compulsory for university students to interact in English in order to prepare them to compete in the ASEAN – Association of Southeast Asian Nations – Economic Community, which comes into effect at the start of 2016, reports The Jakarta Post.Research, Technology and Higher Education Minister Muhammad Nasir said recently that the ministry was preparing a bilingual curriculum that would use both Bahasa Indonesia and English in universities nationwide starting in 2016.

It’s not just big business; merger mania has hit universities across Europe. Since 2000, the number of university mergers have increased substantially and almost 100 mergers have taken place, according to a report by the European University Association, writes Aamna Mohdin for Quartz.Denmark kickstarted merger fever in 2007, halving the number of institutions in the country. Belgium followed between 2009 and 2011. A series of individual mergers resulted in the broader trend of establishing university communities in France; the world-famous Sorbonne could become part of a much larger Paris university in the next few years. Mergers have been a more isolated phenomenon in Germany, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Estonia has cut its universities by a quarter.

The Ministry of Education and Training said the professionally oriented higher education model must be used at universities and colleges to make sure graduates are qualified to get jobs without needing to be retrained, reports VNS.At a recent conference, Nguyen Thi Kim Phung, acting head of the ministry of education and training's higher education department, said that employers' demands regarding employees' knowledge, soft skills and work attitudes were increasing. But these skills have remained shortcomings in new graduates. Reforming higher education has become one of the ministry's main tasks. The connection between universities and colleges and enterprises was given priority to create more chances for new graduates to get jobs, she said.

The government has been urged to pick one or two public universities to be upgraded to global status. Conference organising chairman of the 2015 meeting of the Chairmen of the Board of Directors (Public Universities), Tun Zaki Tun Azmi, said the aim could be met if one or two were nurtured into becoming the 20 best in the world, reports Bernama."To implement the proposal, the government, for example, must appoint the best from among local or foreign candidates as vice-chancellors to manage the administration of the universities," he said in his speech at the conference last Tuesday. He said the funds to send local students abroad could be used to hire the best lecturers for the selected universities. Every public university in Malaysia must cooperate by giving their full support to the selected universities and dispel any feeling of jealousy, he added.

Maori success in education is being celebrated as new research shows more are graduating from university – with more than half being the first in their immediate family to do so, writes Corazon Miller for NZ Herald.The University of Otago study has revealed that nearly half of recent Maori graduates were the first among their immediate family, one third were parents and almost three-quarters were female. The findings are from the Graduate Longitudinal Study New Zealand, an ongoing project that over a 10-year period is investigating the employment, health and social outcomes of more than 8,700 graduates from all eight universities in the country.

The paper gives an overview of the scientific and pedagogical activity of Doctor of Science, Professor, Head of Department of Theoretical Mechanics at Moscow Bauman Higher Technical School in 1924-1944 Alexander Petrovich Kotelnikov. The basic details of his biography, as well as research and teaching at the Kazan University, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, the Moscow Bauman Higher Technical School. Particular emphasis is placed on the developed them "screw reckoning." It opened its main content and communications with the fundamental ideas of N.I. Lobachevsky, the prospects for its use at the moment. When covering the scientific and methodological aspects of the work as the head of the Department of Theoretical Mechanics, established N.E. Zhukovsky. The article is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of A.P. Kotelnikov.