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England
nick mitchell
With management consultants predicting that up to a third of operations will be automated over the next five years and universities under pressure to cut costs, artificial intelligence offers a more efficient way to keep higher education institutions running smoothly, a recent webinar revealed.
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The influence of geopolitics on HE around the world is accelerating
Fuang Huang, Niancai Liu, Simon Marginson
The private seminar, which analyzed the forces that will shape world-class universities in the 2050s, ended with a shared conviction that universities face unprecedented disruption that will reshape global academic life, but have unique potential to shape a more collaborative global future.
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US-China
Jan Petter Myklebust
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US-World
Nathan M. Greenfield
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Australia-New Zealand
John Gerritsen
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Denmark
Jan Petter Myklebust
Universities, academics and trade unions have welcomed the recent announcement by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science of a new fund for basic research that will lay the foundations for scientific progress and innovation over the next four years.
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Global – Sweden
Jan Petter Myklebust
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cameroon
Elias Ngalame
Cameroon’s re-elected President Paul Biya, 93, who has ruled the country for 43 years, has promised to chart a new course for the country’s higher education system, starting with the resumption of doctoral programs at state universities this year. His plan provoked mixed reactions.
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egypt
Wagdi Sawahel
Egypt needs at least 65 new universities by 2030 to meet the demand for higher education as the university student population grows rapidly, a market research report has found. Student enrollment is expected to soar to more than 5 million students over the next five years.
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Ireland
John Walsh
A cross-border partnership involving Northern Ireland’s Queen’s University Belfast and Ireland’s Dundalk Institute of Technology has been agreed after weeks of confidential discussions. Irish Treasurer and Tánaiste Simon Harris said the collaboration was an important milestone in the development of the island-wide education system.
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Edtech, AI, higher education
South Korea
james unil au
NVIDIA’s promise to provide 260,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) to South Korea is more than just a hardware deal, it’s a test of whether a nation can educate, govern, and evolve faster than its own machines. Universities can become the intellectual infrastructure of the AI era and the key to converting computational richness into cognitive richness.
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world blog
global
Nita Tenmerman
For some academics, the entire quality assurance activity can be seen as an imposition that increases their workload, which they perceive as primarily focused on compliance rather than true quality improvement. As a result, their activities are not perceived as adding value.
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Special Report: Education for Sustainable Development XI – Climate Science
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| Climate science is essential to addressing global sustainability challenges, and future leaders will need strong climate and sustainability skills. The COP30 climate conference, like the 11th COP30, reflects the growing importance of climate education for sustainable development. university world news Special report in support of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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global
lauren rickards
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global
karen mcgregor
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Africa
Eve Lwoko
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South Africa
Desmond Thompson
The tension between accelerating climate change innovation and the limits of the readiness of science and governance systems was the focus of the first South African Ocean and Land CDR Science Policy Workshop held at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in the run-up to COP30.
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Singapore
Kalinga Seneviratne
Responding to the region’s growing need for robust climate adaptation strategies, the small but densely populated island nation of Singapore is spending millions of dollars on climate-related research focused on tropical regions where scientific knowledge has traditionally been ignored.
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SDGs
global
UWN reporter
Sweden’s Lund University has been awarded the top spot in the 2026 Quacquarelli Simons World University Rankings for Sustainability. The results reflect continued progress in Asia, the strength of the UK, the most successful higher education system in the rankings, and declines in parts of the US.
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global
Nathan M. Greenfield
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sudan
Gihad Ibrahim
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global
Milan Kovacevic
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Last week’s top stories
Netherlands
Joe Ritzen and Job Zommerprague
The results of recent elections in the Netherlands have given universities some breathing space from the threat of cuts, but have highlighted the challenges facing many universities across Europe. It requires demonstrating that international excellence and regional relevance are mutually reinforcing rather than competing priorities.
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global
Vousu Trantin
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India
Shriya Niazi
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global
Zhang Zha and Ya Xuan Wang
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global
Louise Nicol
The announcement of Ministerial Instruction 115 in Australia is yet another sign that governments in major English-speaking study destination countries are confusing international education with migration risks. While this may be politically expedient, it is economically self-defeating, and students will be the biggest losers.
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Kazakhstan
Elena Denisova Schmidt, Tatyana Kim, Aliya Kuzabekova
Interviews with senior university officials in Kazakhstan suggest that misconduct is embedded within broader educational and cultural structures, underpinned by inherited norms, weak institutional regulations, and patterns of social dependence, all of which require a rethinking of approaches to ensuring academic integrity.
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US
Brendan O’Malley
The Trump administration’s pressure on universities and science poses an “existential threat” to higher education and democracy and is turning universities into hotbeds of compliance, university leaders and academic freedom experts warned on Magna Chart’s MCU anniversary in 2020.
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global
Sujul Bergan
It is no small thing that 37 new universities signed up to the Charter University on November 13th. In doing so, they join a growing global family of more than 1,000 educational institutions interested in and committed to academic freedom and institutional autonomy.
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