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UNITED STATES
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Nathan M Greenfield
The increasingly hostile regime being created for international students and scholars in the United States – involving denial of entry, detentions, deportation and even being ‘disappeared’, according to human rights experts – has triggered a plethora of travel warnings from foreign governments and higher education institutions.
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AUSTRALIA
Brendan O’Malley
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THAILAND
Wasinee Pabuprapap
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UNITED STATES
Sam Yang and Gerardo Blanco
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DENMARK
Jan Petter Myklebust
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NORWAY-NORDIC COUNTRIES
Jan Petter Myklebust
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UNITED STATES
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Princeton, Brown also face funds freeze
Nathan M Greenfield
Harvard University, which stands to lose up to US$9 billion in federal monies if it does not satisfy the Trump administration that it is doing enough to combat antisemitism, is the latest target of what some commentators believe are essentially attempts to silence truth-seeking institutions.
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UNITED STATES
Graeme Atherton
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GLOBAL
Karen MacGregor
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AFRICA
Mark Paterson and Thierry M Luescher
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News
INDIA
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Shuriah Niazi
Well over half of professorial positions at India’s premier higher education institutions, including its renowned Indian Institutes of Technology and centrally funded universities, are vacant – with implications, experts argue, for quality and India’s aspirations to become a global hub for innovation and higher education.
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EUROPE
Liz Newmark
The ‘European degree’, a new qualification to be awarded after transnational bachelor, masters or doctoral programmes, offers a unique value proposition, but needs to be effectively managed, according to experts participating in an online meeting hosted by the League of European Research Universities.
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JAPAN
Suvendrini Kakuchi
New measures are being introduced by the Japanese government to try to make longer-term study abroad more attractive in a sector deeply affected by a weaker local currency, financial uncertainty and student concerns about missing out on local job recruitment opportunities, according to experts.
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SOUTH KOREA
Yumi Jeung
South Korean medical students who have been on a prolonged ‘leave of absence’ in protest over a government plan to increase medical school admissions have re-registered and are expected to return to campus. Whether it marks a definitive end to the boycott remains unclear.
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NAMIBIA
Clemence Manyukwe
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Edtech, AI and Higher Education
CHINA
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Amber Wang
To accelerate AI-empowered education reforms, and inspired by the launch last year of the homegrown generative AI intelligence model DeepSeek, the Chinese government is pushing a shift to open-source models, including the development of a government-led open-source collaboration platform to foster cross-sector innovation.
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Academic Affairs Division
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
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World Blog
CANADA
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Nadia Lana and Victor Kuperman
The goal of undoing pandemic-related grade inflation is not to punish students for receiving higher grades during the pandemic measures, but to restore the validity of a university grading that accurately reflects student achievement and to prepare students for their next career step.
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Features
UNITED STATES-CANADA
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Nathan M Greenfield
The imminent arrival of three eminent American Ivy League professors and efforts by Canadian universities to attract researchers from the United States, Canadian officials hope, herald the reversal of a perennial problem for Canadian universities: the brain drain to the US.
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AFRICA
Wachira Kigotho
New academic reflections as part of a discourse about the crisis facing postcolonial African higher education are shedding more light on the role of political, economic and social influences on struggles and strained relations between the African ruling elites and public universities, staff unions and students.
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AFRICA-GLOBAL
UWN writer
A new study on equity, mutual benefits and sustainability in higher education partnerships across Sub-Saharan Africa offers key insights into existing practices, challenges and opportunities for fostering balanced and impactful collaborations between African higher education institutions and international partners.
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Education for Sustainable Development IX: Future Pathways
GLOBAL
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Universities and academics around the world are helping to create alternative and more sustainable futures through their research and through Education for Sustainable Development. This is the ninth in a series of special reports published by University World News in support of the global effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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GLOBAL
Tianchong Wang and Libing Wang
As AI continues to progress, its ability to amplify universities’ contributions to global sustainability efforts is unprecedented. A thoughtful and strategic approach to AI integration will not only improve educational outcomes but also equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to lead in a sustainable world.
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GLOBAL
Andreia Nogueira, Poorna Rodrigo and Raghavendra Verma
The development of virtual global classrooms is helping universities and colleges to boost education for sustainable development by teaching students who otherwise would not have access to higher education and by facilitating interactions that prompt the invention of global solutions to sustainability challenges.
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GLOBAL
Rajesh Tandon and Budd Hall
While the field of Education for Sustainable Development has focused on schooling, students and educators, lifelong and life-wide learning have been increasingly called upon as a critical element in addressing the complex issues around sustainability. This has implications for the roles of universities.
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GLOBAL
Karen MacGregor
There’s been a tidal shift in thinking around futures studies in the past decade. “Universities are the laggards here,” says futurist Professor Sohail Inayatullah. “But working with students everywhere; agility, diversity, sustainability, AI, global thinking, even spiritual thinking – those come up more and more.”
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GLOBAL
Andreia Nogueira
Increasing investments by academic institutions in interdisciplinarity are not just boosting flexibility and lateral thinking, they are strengthening the ability of universities to support sustainability worldwide. Oxford University Press has just launched an online series of interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences.
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SDGs
LATIN AMERICA
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Uwe Brandenburg, Carla Camargo Cassol and Paulina Latorre
Internationalisation in higher education for society, or IHES, is one of the few concepts that works well and is transferable anywhere. Connected to the concept of impact, it is a means of measuring the contribution of higher education to the sustainable development of communities.
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ASIA
Kalinga Seneviratne
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AFRICA
Scovian Lillian
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UGANDA
Scovian Lillian
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Top Stories from Last Week
SOUTH AFRICA-UNITED STATES
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Mia Malan
A leaked memo for grant management staff of the United States government’s National Institutes of Health instructs officers to hold “all [research] awards to entities located in South Africa”. Some experts estimate that as much as 70% of South Africa’s medical research is funded through the National Institutes of Health.
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GLOBAL
Nathan M Greenfield
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GLOBAL
James Yoonil Auh
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CHINA-UNITED STATES
Denis Simon
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AFRICA
Wachira Kigotho
How can barriers be broken and gender equality be accelerated in African universities? Who is responsible for women’s under-representation in leadership roles and harassment in those institutions? Who can be counted on to advocate for gender social justice and safe campuses in African universities?
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GLOBAL
Lily Kong and Hamish Coates
The possibility of living 100 years is shaping up into a distinct reality which opens up all kinds of prospects for higher education. To remain relevant in this new demographic reality, universities need to support relearning and reskilling, and more socially purposeful research.
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SWEDEN-NORDIC COUNTRIES
Jan Petter Myklebust
The recent attacks by the Trump administration on United States higher education and research institutions – seen as global leaders in scientific research-based progress – have prompted the Swedish academic community to call on the government to strengthen constitutional and statutory protections for academic freedom.
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AUSTRALIA
Shadi Khan Saif
Alarmed by the impact the Trump administration’s anti-diversity, equity and inclusion, or anti-DEI, agenda is having on research collaborations across the Pacific, Australia’s leading universities and the Australian Academy of Science are pressing for greater collaboration with Europe and seeking deeper bilateral ties in Asia.
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UAE University staff
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Indian higher education has become fundamentally politicised in the current era of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, posing a grave danger to academic institutions, the academic profession and intellectual life, particularly as India seeks to build world-class universities and engage with the world’s best.
International university consortia – which pool resources, expertise and networks to enhance research capabilities, educational offerings, societal impact and influence – can also act as resilient bridges and ‘soft infrastructure’ for stability and cooperation beyond political cycles in the current complex geopolitical environment.