breaking news
India-USA
Shriya Niazi
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay will collaborate with the State University of New York (SUNY) Old Westbury to open its first overseas sub-campus in the United States. This is the first time that an IIT will run its own academic program on American soil.
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middle east
Tarek Abd Elgalil
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South Africa
Rudy De Lange
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top stories
global
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Employment conditions often reflect gig economy conditions
Min Bahadur Vista
The rise of adjuncts in higher education around the world shows how universities are de-emphasizing stable communities of scholars and moving toward corporate models organized around the provision of services by temporary, part-time, and contract-based academic workers.
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global
Nathan M. Greenfield
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UK-Europe
Anne Corbett
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global
John Lawrence Dennis and Sher Bergan
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news
India
Shriya Niazi
With three more branch campus proposals from the UK and Australia approved in India and set up in Bangalore and Mumbai, academics point out that foreign universities are not creating new educational hubs but are primarily strengthening existing economic and academic centers.
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global
UWN reporter
in times higher educationor TheIn the Impact Rating 2026, which aims to evaluate each institution’s contribution to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, Asian universities dominate the top 10 in the overall category, but the UK dominates the top 10 in individual SDGs.
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global
angel calderon
times higher educationor Thehas announced its rebranded Sustainability Impact Assessment. The assessment continues to showcase how universities are working towards addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda and continues to rank universities, with the University of Manchester back on top in the world and a growing number of universities in Asia.
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gulf countries
Wagdi Sawahel
Although institutional engagement with the sustainability agenda is increasing in Arab Gulf countries, implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by universities remains largely shaped by global ranking frameworks and policy imperatives, with limited evidence of substantive SDG localization.
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webinar
global
karen mcgregor
Dr. Jamil Salmi, a world-renowned higher education expert, says the key to improving student access and success in higher education is to “remove financial barriers.” Perhaps Chile’s targeted student tuition system, along with countless other innovations in access, is the way to go.
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Edtech, AI, higher education
global
carlos vargas
Sovereignty in an AI domain where borders are rarely respected is not gained by building higher boundaries. The winner will be a scientific system that governs locally and collaborates globally. This capability does not start domestically, but resides in institutions that are reduced to pipelines by national AI strategies: universities.
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world blog
Chile
Carlos Olivares
Although Chile claims to be progressing towards a knowledge economy, it lacks the structures to support this. Governments need to set clear targets, change the way university research is rewarded to encourage collaboration with industry, and provide strong rewards for knowledge sharing.
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academic publishing
global
Wagdi Sawahel
According to a new analysis, university world news Our correspondents and expert commentators have been cited in thousands of academic publications and policy documents. university world news It is utilized in academic discourse as an authoritative reference point for understanding higher education systems, policies, and developments around the world.
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SDGs
India
Kalinga Seneviratne
Conceived by the famous Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore as a boarding school to help preserve India’s traditional arts and philosophy, Visva Bharati University engages ‘intimately’ with the surrounding community, working to increase literacy levels, teach entrepreneurship skills and improve the socio-economic conditions of villagers.
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kenya
Wilson Odhiambo

Three fourth-year mining and mineral processing engineering students at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Ian Gumbau Wambua, Shaneel Mumbi, and Ruth Affandi Igunza, have devised a way to process minerals without the need for water, a key element in mining.
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Sweden
Fintan Burke

For thousands of years, people have dyed their clothes with the plant-based indigo to give them a deep, bold blue color. However, the production of these jeans can damage the environment by leaching harmful chemicals. Now, researchers are using algae to make an eco-friendly dye for jeans.
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Nigeria
Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman Akanbi
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Last week’s top stories
Rwanda
Jean Damour Mboninshuti
When war broke out in Sudan, Rama Hashim not only feared for his safety. She was terrified of the future she was just beginning to build. Just a few months ago, the 21-year-old started her first year of electronics and electrical engineering in Khartoum. Life felt stable, even predictable.
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global
UWN reporter
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China
amber one
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Palestine
Tarek Abd Elgalil
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global
Brendan O’Malley

Leaving no one behind is a value that infuses all of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and universities are well-positioned to fight inequality through research, engagement, widening access, and producing graduates prepared to be change-makers. But we need incentives and metrics to reward progress.
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Palestine
Brendan O’Malley

A new academic report published by Friends of the University of Palestine concludes that Israel has carried out the “systematic destruction of Gaza’s higher education sector” since October 2023, amounting to “academic murder” and claims that this provides “direct evidence” of genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
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global
james unil au

AI is reshaping the cognitive assumptions that underpin modern higher education. Universities may be moving from an individual cognitive model to a networked cognitive model, where the educational challenge is no longer one of accessing information, but of developing judgment, insight, and intellectual responsibility.
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global
Tobias Dalberg, Audrey Harosh, Hampus Est Gustafsson, François van Schalkwyk, Marie-Gabriel Verberg

Although well-intentioned, the recent emphasis on “young researchers” in research policy is counterproductive. This concept undermines expectations of academic life and personalizes the responsibilities and risks of academic labor for this group of researchers, who are assumed to be ‘academically young’.
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