EUROPE
Peter Maassen
CANADA
Nathan M Greenfield
AFRICA-EUROPE
Desmond Thompson
Leadership
GLOBAL
Brendan O’Malley
Sir Edward Byrne has led three top universities on three continents. He talks to University World News about how being president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology compares to his experiences leading Monash University in Australia and King’s College London in the United Kingdom.
News
UNITED KINGDOM
Nic Mitchell
After four years of spectacular growth in international student recruitment to British universities, it is time for vice-chancellors and governors to ‘sober up’ and stop relying on never-ending increases in lucrative foreign tuition fees to save them from financial disaster, a recent blog argues.
NORDIC COUNTRIES
Jan Petter Myklebust
BANGLADESH
Mohiuddin Alamgir
COLOMBIA-LATIN AMERICA
Gilbert Nakweya
Reparations for structural, institutional, and systemic racism inflicted upon people of African descent living in Latin America and the Caribbean should be rooted in enhanced access to higher education, according to comments made at the recent COP16 conference by Colombian Vice-President Francia Márquez.
CHINA
Amber Wang
Contradicting a popular belief that international degrees are losing their shine as record numbers of Chinese graduates return from overseas study, new research shows that returning students still have an edge over domestic graduates in securing academic or research jobs at Chinese universities.
HONG KONG
Yojana Sharma
Local student status, which eases university applications and scholarships, and bypasses limits on non-local students, has become coveted in Hong Kong as the city tries to attract more overseas talent, but parents say non-locals are exploiting loopholes to get their children into universities.
INDIA-AUSTRALIA
Shadi Khan Saif
CAMEROON-FRANCE
Elias Ngalame
NETHERLANDS
Jan Petter Myklebust
Edtech, AI and Higher Education
UNITED KINGDOM
Karen MacGregor
Three in five lecturers in 33 universities and colleges in the United Kingdom rate their digital teaching environment highly. But university support for digital technologies appears to have slipped since COVID-19 and most academics lack time or opportunity to learn new tools, a survey has revealed.
Latest Vacancy in HE
World Blog
GLOBAL
Alexandra R Costa, Natércia Lima, Clara Viegas and Amélia Caldeira
Research suggests that students will use AI tools regardless of teachers’ preferences, making it essential that teachers and universities encourage students to use the tools wisely. This includes fostering critical thinking, promoting ethical behaviour and encouraging interaction in the classroom to strengthen social skills.
Features
GLOBAL
Wagdy Sawahel
A study finding that only about 17% of the library and information science journals indexed by Scopus are multilingual offers insights into gaps in our understanding of non-English library and information science journals indexed in global databases and mulls the possibility of an alternative multilingual index.
GLOBAL-AFRICA
Desmond Thompson
What does it take to win a Nobel Prize? What happens in the committees that decide who receives such a coveted honour? These and other questions were answered with flair at a recent lecture delivered as part of the Nobel in Africa series.
SOUTH AFRICA-GLOBAL
Maina Waruru
Africa’s biggest international study destination, South Africa, could gain from international students who now face additional barriers to studying in the big four destinations of the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Australia due to policy changes. The country’s larger metropolitan universities would benefit the most.
Q&A
SOUTH AFRICA-PALESTINE
Desmond Thompson
The Academy of Science of South Africa has awarded a Science-for-Society Gold Medal to Professor Saleem Badat, a prominent figure in the country’s higher education sector. In his acceptance speech, he announced he would donate his prize money to the Palestinian cause.
SDGs
KAZAKHSTAN
Sayasat Nurbek
The transformation of Kazakhstan’s higher education system is part of a broader global movement to rethink how education can better serve society’s needs. The goal is not only to become a regional leader in education and research, but also to contribute to the global academic ecosystem.
THAILAND
Kalinga Seneviratne
A provincial university in the north-east of Thailand is at the forefront of a campaign using digital technologies to create ‘smart cities’ in partnership with local municipalities and central government agencies, and to build resources and tools that can be used in mitigating natural disasters.
MOROCCO-FRANCE
Wagdy Sawahel
Morocco, in cooperation with France, will establish a joint research centre, the first of its kind in Africa, for supporting scientific and technological innovation for sustainable development in the region. It is one of several recent initiatives in the region that appears to be targeting anti-French sentiments.
Top Stories from Last Week
GLOBAL
Nishat Riaz and Mary Stiasny
It is time to rethink higher education’s role – not only for the next decade but for generations to come. The promise of higher education is not merely to provide knowledge but to build a world where equity, justice and sustainability are realities, not aspirations.
NETHERLANDS
Jan Petter Myklebust
CHINA-GLOBAL
Yojana Sharma
ASIA
Romyen Kosaikanont, Philip Masterson, Roger Y Chao Jr and Darren J McDermott
ETHIOPIA
Wondwosen Tamrat
In one of the biggest projects of its kind in Africa, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Innovation and Technology has started to recruit five million young people, including students, to become coders – a bold attempt to create active participants in a digital economy. What role can higher education play to ensure its success?
GLOBAL-UNITED STATES
Nathan M Greenfield
A conference on the interface between universities, governments and democracy, co-hosted by the Magna Charta Observatory and PEN America, heard that Florida has copied restrictions on academic freedom from Hungary, a reminder that bad ideas can travel the globe just as well as good ones.
AFRICA
Gilbert Nakweya
Harnessing and accelerating the adoption of new agricultural technologies and innovations can help Africa realise the targets of its Agenda 2063’s flagship programme, the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme, says the director of the Biotechnology Research Institute at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation.
EUROPE
Enora Bennetot Pruvot
Faced with steady cost pressures and limited prospects for higher public funding, universities are looking to manage risks and generate income from diversified sources, but building financial resilience through diversification is no easy task and requires staff professionalisation and a focus on leadership development.
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