The International Imperative in Higher Education is part of the Global Perspectives on Higher Education series, a series which provides analysis and comparative perspectives on key issues affecting higher education worldwide. This volume (number 27), consists of 40 short essays aiming to illustrate key challenges in the higher education landscape. Issues such as globalisation, massification, corruption, inequality, brain drain and brain exchange, rankings, academic freedom, the dominance of English as the academic language, etc. are being discussed, and China and India, two of the world’s largest academic systems, are being paid extra attention to.