breaking news
Japan
Svendolini Kakuchi
Japan’s private universities, which account for 80% of the nation’s higher education enrollment and whose student numbers continue to decline, are facing a battle for survival, and are required to actively engage in efforts to optimize the size and form of their universities.
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top stories
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“It’s about redesigning the way knowledge itself is generated.”
Nathan M. Greenfield
A new UNESCO report is described as a “social contract” for higher education that reaffirms its role in weathering change, generating prosperity and making a world more sustainable, peaceful and just, beset by political crises and where trust in higher education is declining in some regions.
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China
amber one
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Russia
Nina Izmailova
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US
Nathan M. Greenfield
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news
Lebanon
Tarek Abd Elgalil
Lebanese University, Lebanon’s only public higher education institution, killed two senior faculty members in an Israeli drone attack on its Hadas campus in the southern suburbs of Beirut. An Israeli military spokesperson claimed that one of the victims was a prominent Hezbollah figure.
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Norway
Jan Petter Myklebust
More Norwegian students than ever are taking part in study abroad exchange programs, and while Australia remains the most popular destination, the latest data shows interest in destinations in Europe, particularly in the south, is increasing at the expense of the US and UK.
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Sweden
Jan Petter Myklebust
Government plans to limit the hours foreign students who graduate in Sweden can work are undermining independent measures aimed at making Sweden more attractive to foreign researchers and students, higher education officials claim.
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uganda
michael ainomugisha
Uganda’s film industry, known as Ugawood, has grown in recent years, with low-budget productions reaching audiences through online platforms and local events. Films shot with basic devices often explore everyday stories, and some have even won spots at festivals worldwide. Despite this, formal training in universities lags behind.
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Edtech, AI, higher education
global
james unil au
The rise of artificial intelligence on campuses is creating conceptual confusion. People believe that machine intelligence will replace human intelligence. In reality, most AI systems are statistical predictive tools. The most important intelligence that universities should cultivate is human understanding and judgment.
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global
Wagdi Sawahel
Collaboration between generative artificial intelligence developers, universities, academic publishers, and policy makers is urgently needed to develop academically consistent, citation-trackable AI systems based on peer-reviewed scholarly collections, especially in underrepresented regions and contexts, according to new research.
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Africa
Oscar Koopman and Karen Joy Koopman
The questions that orient the curriculum as self-authentication are: What real questions does the discipline pose to students, and how do students change when they authentically engage with these questions? AI-generated work fails this test not because the software detects it, but because the journey has not taken place.
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world blog
global
Imanol Ordorica
A multipolar world inevitably redistributes voice and visibility. Our task is to ensure that redistribution strengthens, rather than fragments, global knowledge sharing. It means dispersing Western standards. Expose coercion, including within the home. And design multiple secured infrastructures for collaboration.
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SDGs
global
Min Bahadur Vista
Over the past decade, the number of women leaders at the world’s top universities has nearly doubled, reflecting one of the most important cultural shifts in higher education today. However, progress remains uneven. A growing body of research is providing insight into why.
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Africa
Alberto Rennie
Science diplomacy can contribute to building climate resilience and adaptive capacity, according to a French initiative involving six East African universities. The Doctoral Alliance for Climate Adaptation was founded on the premise that science diplomacy provides a powerful framework for addressing climate change.
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Africa
Wachira Kigoto
Vice-chancellors in African universities deal with a complex academic environment in which important decisions are regularly taken without the vice-chancellor’s input, a factor that often runs counter to the principles of academic freedom aimed at protecting the rights of academics and the interests of universities.
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Last week’s top stories
Middle East – Iran
Wagdi Sawahel
Many countries in the Middle East, including Iran, Israel, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Palestine, and Iraq, have announced the temporary closure of universities in response to escalating military conflicts between the US and Israeli forces and Iran.
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Canada
Nathan M. Greenfield
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Africa
Aslam Fatale
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global
karen mcgregor
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Africa-Italy
Wagdi Sawahel
Through the implementation of the Mattei Plan for Africa, Italy engages African countries to build strategic and balanced educational and scientific research partnerships. Experts say this is part of a broader effort to build a sustainable and development-focused relationship.
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India-Canada
Shriya Niazi
Canada and India are deepening their higher education relationship with the launch of the new Canada-India Talent and Innovation Strategy, which aims to go beyond traditional student flows and create a structured, long-term framework for research collaboration, skills development and innovation-led growth.
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UK-India
Mr. Sahil Gupta and Mr. Amarjit Singh
The recent economic and trade agreement between India and the UK has an impact beyond traditional economic measures, recognizing that higher education collaboration is becoming an essential long-term strategy to address skills gaps, strengthen innovation and employability, and strengthen business and economic links.
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world united kingdom
Fadime Shahin
The conflict in the Middle East is just the latest in a decade of once-in-a-generation shocks. Universities need to treat disruption as the new normal. This means you need a flexible, scenario-based planning approach that allows you to quickly adapt to changing conditions.
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