Higher Education

In the sixteenth episode of Ignite the Way video series, Fr Stephen Sundborg, SJ, former president and current chancellor of Seattle University, discusses the application of “discernment in common” within boards of institutions such as universities and schools. He emphasizes that discernment...

What began as a simple encounter between urban students and forgotten hamlets has evolved into a profound Jesuit mission of accompaniment. For eight years, St. Xavier’s University Kolkata has answered the Society of Jesus’ call to “walk with the excluded” through its transformative...

Sri Lanka is known for its stunning, diverse landscapes and ancient sites. At the same time, its three decades of horrific civil war, the devastating 2004 tsunami, and the more recent political unrest, along with the strain of an economic crisis which deepens inequalities, also remain impressed...

On 30-31 March 2026, the Board of the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU) met at the General Curia in Rome to review the ongoing implementation of the Strategic Agenda (2024-2028) and the priorities defined at the Assembly in Bogotá in July 2025...

Scholars, researchers, and academic leaders from Jesuit universities around the world gathered from 9 to 12 March 2026 at the Ateneo de Manila University for the Inaugural Symposium of the Global Research Alliance of Jesuit Universities (GRAJU), marking a major milestone...

In 2025, while many organisations cut back or ceased activities in the face of global turmoil, Jesuit Worlwide Learning (JWL) remained steadfast and ensured over 13,000 students across 40 countries could continue to learn. Students’ resilience has been especially remarkable...

When Belgian Jesuit missionaries arrived in Chotanagpur in 1869, they stepped into a landscape of systematic oppression. The Adivasi tribes – Munda, Oraon, Ho, Santhal, Kharia – lived on land rich with minerals yet were themselves stripped of dignity, resources, and hope...

The inauguration of St. Xavier’s College’s new building in Simdega represents far more than bricks, classrooms, and laboratories. It’s a declaration: Quality higher education belongs here. Your children deserve the same opportunities as youth in Ranchi, Delhi, or Mumbai...

Continuing his visit to the Calcutta Jesuit Province, Fr General Arturo Sosa visited the Raghabpur campus of the prestigious St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. Raghabpur was originally established to extend higher education to women and to respond to the growing need for inclusive learning spaces.

The higher education mission of the Calcutta Jesuit Province is not merely a record of institutions founded or degrees awarded; it is the unfolding of a distinctive intellectual, cultural, and spiritual vision that has shaped Bengal’s academic and moral imagination for nearly two centuries...

The history of Jesuit education in the Calcutta Province of the Society of Jesus is more than a tale of institutions and academic achievement. Since the mid-nineteenth century, schools such as St. Xavier’s Collegiate School, St. Lawrence School and St. Xavier’s College have helped shape...

The XI World Union of Jesuit Alumni (WUJA) Congress will be held from Wednesday, 29 July to Sunday, 2 August, 2026, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, the cultural and educational hub of the world’s largest archipelago, at the prestigious Sanata Dharma University.