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Public sector organizations are on the front lines and most at risk
Nathan M. Greenfield
Nearly a third of U.S. university researchers based in Republican-controlled states, where new laws restrict teaching on “divisive topics” such as “racial and gender ideology,” immigration, and climate change, report self-censoring their work, according to a report based on new research.
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Afghanistan-Pakistan
Ameen Amjad Khan
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Canada
Nathan M. Greenfield
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james unil au
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South Africa
Eve Lwoko
A new regional study by the South African Academy of Sciences has found that extreme heat is a critical climate and public health threat in southern Africa. However, a key finding of the report is the growing disconnect between scientific knowledge and policy implementation.
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Norway-Sweden
Jan Petter Myklebust
Two of the Nordic region’s leading business schools, the Stockholm School of Economics and the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, have launched a strategic cooperation on security and resilience in response to the geopolitical situation in which Europe’s democracies face increasing uncertainty.
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Netherlands
Jan Petter Myklebust
Amid rising global tensions, attention has been focused on the role of military and defense-related science at universities after the top university organization, the University of the Netherlands, granted so-called “network membership” to the Faculty of Military Science.
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bahrain
Wagdi Sawahel
Bahrain is stepping up efforts to position itself as a regional and global hub for international students and academic investment, with a new 10-year strategy aimed at driving research and innovation and increasing the quality, competitiveness, global profile and reach of the higher education sector.
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Edtech, AI, higher education
global
Aslam Fatale
Benchmarking efforts at Southeast Asian universities demonstrate how AI is reshaping knowledge and why institutions need to respond by redesigning pedagogy, assessment, and learning for deeper engagement. The question is how to shape these responses to strengthen the intellectual and public purposes of higher education.
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India
Hemachandran Kannan and Raul Villamarín Rodriguez
Short-form digital habits and increased reliance on generative AI are shaping student attention, learning behaviors, and decision-making. Business schools can respond by strengthening deep thinking, redesigning assessment methods, and teaching the use of AI as a reasoning tool rather than a learning shortcut.
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South Africa
Sue McKenna
South Africa’s Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi has withdrawn the country’s draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy after it was revealed that the reference list included fictitious sources. For universities, this is a teachable moment about critical AI literacy.
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webinar
global
UWN reporter
The leading figure behind the Global Compact proposal for research cooperation will join our panel of global experts in higher education, international development and quality assurance to discuss ‘North-South Partnership: How to achieve equity and impact’. university world newsWebinar on May 7th.
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world blog
global
Francesco Villari
If universities can maintain a balance between innovation and human understanding, between specialization and interdisciplinary openness, they will be able to continue to fulfill the role that has historically made them central institutions of social progress.
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Features
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patrick christie
ABET’s 2026 Symposium on Connecting to Purpose: Driving Innovation Through Partnerships opened with awe-inspiring footage of the Artemis space trip and a speech from astronaut Nicole Stott about the achievements that scientists from more than 15 countries achieved together on the International Space Station mission.
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SDGs
Asia
Michelle W.T. Chen
My autoethnographic research examines the cultural and institutional norms that shape victims’ behaviors and expectations when faced with sexual harassment in an Asian higher education context. The aim is to urge universities to strengthen current policies to protect victims and prevent further harm.
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India
Shriya Niazi
The world’s first comprehensive global university specializing in wildlife and veterinary medicine has been established in Gujarat, India. This curriculum provides students with the opportunity to work directly with rescued animals and gain real-world insight into wildlife medicine, behavioral science, and rehabilitation methodologies.
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Africa
Elias Ngalame
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Office of the University of the Francophonie An agreement has been reached to introduce children’s rights education at master’s level in universities in Central Africa and the Great Lakes region.
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Last week’s top stories
Africa
Elias Ngalame
Pope Leo XIV called on students to remain in Africa, serve their fellow countrymen through education and fight the “scourge of corruption.” During his first trip to Africa, he visited several universities including Algeria, Angola, Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea.
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US
Nathan M. Greenfield
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global
Samuel Getachew
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Damtu Tefera
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global
hans de witt
As universities struggle to figure out how to deal with the rise of far-right activity on campuses in the Netherlands and elsewhere, they cannot afford to sit idly by as far-right students increasingly violate human and academic values in their writings, declarations, and actions on campus.
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Africa
Wachira Kigoto
At an international meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, African governments are being urged to support the African Charter for Transformative Research Cooperation, which proposes to rebalance scientific partnerships by addressing structural power imbalances and repositioning the continent within the global research ecosystem.
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Netherlands
Derek Jan Fickers and Twan Opto Feld
Dutch higher education faces three major challenges that require system-level intervention. At the same time, most European and Dutch universities do not have a reliable strategy to prepare for scenarios that may materialize in the near future.
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France
barbara casassus
France’s main education unions have called on their members to protest plans announced by the minister of higher education to abolish high tuition fee exemptions for non-European students, saying they will damage university autonomy and harm disadvantaged countries.
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