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India
Hemachandran K. and Raul Villamarin Rodriguez
India’s sovereign generative artificial intelligence efforts and infrastructure are quite impressive. But for higher education, the real differentiator between universities will not be access to AI hardware or trained models, but rather governing AI tools with an unwavering commitment to trust, equity, and human dignity.
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top stories
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“The capabilities that universities exist to develop will decline.”
james unil au
Universities risk ceding to AI the power to define what counts as knowledge, judgment, and learning. As AI evolves faster than institutional understanding, efficiency replaces reflection and convenience masquerades as progress. This threatens institutions whose legitimacy depends on the capacity for critical judgment.
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global
Tarek Abd Elgalil
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US
Nathan M. Greenfield
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England
Brendan O’Malley
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news
India
Shriya Niazi
India’s goal of achieving a 50% gross enrollment rate by 2035 requires a massive expansion of academic infrastructure, while the trend of out-migration of students and the emergence of overseas university campuses reveals changing student preferences, two new reports reveal.
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Sweden
Jan Petter Myklebust
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Nigeria
Abdulrasheed Hamad
In Nigeria’s higher education and examination system, candidates with visual impairments face barriers that limit their access to education, ranging from denial of accommodation for entrance exams to administrative negligence and policy reversals that impact their lives. Other students abusing the system also exacerbate the problem.
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Thailand
Jason Tan
Thai student groups have taken the initiative to raise suspicions about possible fraud in the general election voting and stage protests after the student-backed People’s Party finished in second place by a wide margin, despite a Sripattum University poll showing 49% of voters would vote for the party.
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Germany
michael gardner
Mario Vogt, the premier of the German state of Thuringia, survived a vote of no confidence by a far-right party after his alma mater revoked his doctorate over plagiarism allegations, a move Vogt challenged through a court review.
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Edtech, AI, higher education
global
Wagdi Sawahel
Ecological responsibility needs to be integrated into AI governance to contribute to climate justice efforts, a Brazilian study finds. Big Tech’s use of the discourse of algorithmic systems obscures the material, energetic, and extractive dimensions of digital infrastructures and reinforces environmental injustices.
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world blog
global
Dustin T. Duncan
The introduction of Writing Accountability Groups is a strategic response to the need for faculty empowerment in turbulent times. Forward-thinking university leaders need to see groups not just as a productivity intervention, but as a strategy to democratize access to instruction and organizational affiliation.
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SDGs
global
Anu Rainio and Anna Sofia Salonen
The ability to envision alternatives is essential to democratic life, and is becoming increasingly important given reports of young people’s declining hopes for the future and the global challenges we face. Cultivating political imagination should be part of higher education’s democratic mission.
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Last week’s top stories
global
Simon Marginson
The era of Western dominance is coming to an end, both in general and in higher education. If we are not fragmented into a culture of war dominated by corporate overlords, denizens of “apocalyptic fascism” and survivalist capitalism, what will be the next content of knowledge that tends to become universal?
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global
Thais França
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England
nick mitchell
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US
Nathan M. Greenfield
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latin america
Mandy Garner
Universities may need to compensate for cognitive deficiencies created by overexposure to technology, such as screen time in early childhood and extensive language modeling in adolescence, by teaching foundational and executive function skills, a leading educationist has argued.
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Africa-Europe
Desmond Thompson
The European Union has launched Africa Initiative IV, a substantial new package of Africa-focused research and innovation under Horizon Europe worth just over €600 million (US$707 million) over the next two years. This initiative forms part of the Horizon Europe Work Program 2026-27.
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Sweden-Finland
Gunvor Kronman and Marcelo Nobel
Universities play a critical role in addressing the big challenges that threaten a global sustainable future, but they need to find new ways to communicate with wider society and stand up for science when challenged by interest groups, a recent conference reported.
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US
Nathan M. Greenfield
Since affirmative action in admissions was abolished in 2023, enrollment of black and Hispanic students at America’s top universities has declined. Enrollment among these groups is increasing at flagship state universities, but the impact of the new trend is raising concerns among grassroots organizations.
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