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Strategies taken to boost the number of women in higher education are having a positive impact and should result in more women in more senior roles in the future.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241120094303129" style="color:#000;">Campus student diversity is becoming difficult to measure</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Karly Sarita Ford</div>As reports suggest that more students are keeping their race and ethnicity hidden on college applications, the impact of the Supreme Court ruling on race-based admissions in the United States will become more difficult to measure due to changes in how the statistics are recorded.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CHINA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241120093525357" style="color:#000;">Is China on the path to global higher education leadership?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Futao Huang</div>The government’s Double First-Class initiative is transforming China’s higher education system, with far-reaching implications for global competition. But there are areas where improvements are needed to sustain momentum, including evaluation reform, interdisciplinary collaboration, research translation, internationalisation and governance.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">LITHUANIA-EUROPE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241120073418531" style="color:#000;">Benefits of engaging in the European Universities Initiative</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Lina Zenkiene</div>Lithuanian universities are benefitting from engagement in the European Universities Initiative when it comes to deeper interactions between universities and with other sectors. The aim is to foster innovation, enhance university capacity and redesign teaching and research to drive social and economic transformation.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241119145556468" style="color:#000;">How Project 2025 could reshape US HE for Asian students</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">James Yoonil Auh</div>Donald Trump’s re-election has intensified discussions about the influence of Project 2025. If enacted, it marks a dramatic shift in the United States’ approach to higher education. While designed to protect American interests, it may deter international talent, particularly from Asia, and diminish US influence.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CARIBBEAN</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241119131740477" style="color:#000;">TNE in the Caribbean: A positive outlook, some challenges</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Shazim Husayn</div>Transnational education, or TNE, has opened doors for students in the Caribbean. It has addressed human capital drain, allowing students the opportunity to study globally but contribute regionally to the development of the Caribbean. But there are some quality assurance and recognition challenges to overcome.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241112093043508" style="color:#000;">Entrepreneurship education should be accessible to everyone</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Hao Ni and Libing Wang</div>Entrepreneurship education should be accessible to all, yet it often highlights male role models like Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Jack Ma, which can alienate key groups such as women, people with disabilities and those in rural areas with limited educational access.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241113122214630" style="color:#000;">Specifics aside, Trump’s rule will mean less global exchange</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Brendan Cantwell</div>Because Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ movement traffics in ethno-nationalism, his administration may be concerning for internationalisation. While the specifics are hard to predict, all indicators point to reduced backing for science, especially global science, and less support for international academic exchange.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241113073628537" style="color:#000;">Universities need to prove their value to local communities</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Hamish Coates and Angel Calderon</div>Over the past 20 years, universities have become less interested in benchmarking and have relied too heavily on high-level measurement rather than understanding and assessing the economic, environmental, social and cultural impact of higher education on the communities that surround and sustain them.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241112105337568" style="color:#000;">International education needs to join the AI conversation</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Shanton Chang, Marc Cheong and Eduardo Araujo Oliveira</div>The impact of increased digitisation and use of AI in international education is not yet fully understood – a situation that calls for new knowledge to support and empower students in the evolving landscape of international education against the background of increasingly pervasive AI.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CHILE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241111104741762" style="color:#000;">Lessons from a post-marketised higher education sector</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Patricio Sanchez-Campos</div>As countries such as England grapple with the balance between market forces and public good in its higher education sector, Chile’s bold move towards free education provides a blueprint for challenging the status quo and imagining an alternative, more equitable educational landscape.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241107143209104" style="color:#000;">Commonwealth has a key role in mitigating HE funding crisis</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nnamdi O Madichie</div>The global higher education funding crisis poses a significant threat to the future of education in Commonwealth countries. However, through coordinated action, strategic policy development, leadership training and international collaboration, the Commonwealth is well positioned to mitigate the worst effects of this crisis.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241106092936296" style="color:#000;">Social media influencers can widen access to study abroad</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Sazana Jayadeva</div>Study abroad influencers are arguably democratising access to study abroad by acting as a virtual ‘elder sibling’ or friend, providing prospective international students with the social and cultural capital necessary for successful student migration – resources to which many might otherwise not have access.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241106085748144" style="color:#000;">Venture competitions – An excellent first step for students</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Robert A Phillips</div>Recent academic research suggests that venture competitions are highly effective as a way of supporting student startups and an excellent learning experience for students as they offer as close to ‘real world’ conditions as it is possible to get at university.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241106071053766" style="color:#000;">Flexible work offers benefits for people and institutions</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Jon McNaughtan and Catherine Shepard</div>While support for flexible work arrangements among higher education leadership is mixed, research suggests that rather than simply an administrative tool, flexible work arrangements, when implemented effectively, can act synergistically to shift employee relations in ways that significantly improve engagement and retention.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AUSTRALIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241106070335337" style="color:#000;">Financial recovery for universities could be years away</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Angel Calderon</div>Australian universities’ governance frameworks were constructed in a period of economic stability, which means that policy-makers, regulators, university leadership and governance will all be tested as institutions enter an uncertain future compounded by operating deficits, a weaker economy and rising unemployment.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241104092943203" style="color:#000;">How sustainability education fuels the green job market</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Patrick Blessinger, Pamela Maseko and Abhilasha Singh</div>As the global green economy grows, so will the significance of education for sustainable development in the composition of the future workforce. The responsiveness of universities to the needs of the green job market requires greater coordination between governments, education institutions and businesses.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">KAZAKHSTAN</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241029133357464" style="color:#000;">Transnational education: Key to shared global challenges</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Sayasat Nurbek</div>The transformation of Kazakhstan’s higher education system is part of a broader global movement to rethink how education can better serve society’s needs. The goal is not only to become a regional leader in education and research, but also to contribute to the global academic ecosystem.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">EUROPE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241030070818539" style="color:#000;">Multiple enrolment could offer several benefits to students</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Alexander Loder</div>University systems seeking to adopt a multiple enrolment policy as practised in Austria should be aware of the advantages and disadvantages this brings for university management and students. Most important is that the overall system be supportive of students who choose multiple enrolments.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">EUROPE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241029151054322" style="color:#000;">New-era policies aim to halt erosion of academic freedom</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Peter Maassen</div>Studies initiated by the European Parliament have proposed several policies aimed at raising awareness about the importance of academic freedom and improving its protection. The input of the academic community is crucial for their further development and implementation, at European and national levels.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241029144810388" style="color:#000;">Universities can expect a frontal attack if Trump returns</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">John Aubrey Douglass</div>If Donald Trump returns to the presidency, we will likely see an extreme return of his policy agenda for higher education, a convergence of the attacks on university autonomy currently being pursued by red states, and a more organised notion of a president’s executive authority.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024102912421613" style="color:#000;">Digital era offers infinite potential for student mobility</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Denada Liça and Silvana Gashi</div>The potential of digital technologies to expand and enhance international student mobility is now infinite. By embracing these technologies, the global education community can provide more equitable access to international experiences and prepare students for a culturally diverse and interconnected world.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241028135546429" style="color:#000;">What do the 2024 Nobel prizes tell us about human society?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Philip G Altbach and Tessa DeLaquil</div>As resources committed to basic science are increasingly contested, and access to research opportunities becomes more elite – though critical to securing humanity’s future – the Nobel science prizes give us universal pause to consider what we, as a human society, want to invest in.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024102508233637" style="color:#000;">Universities have a duty beyond the production of knowledge</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nishat Riaz and Mary Stiasny</div>It is time to rethink higher education’s role – not only for the next decade but for generations to come. The promise of higher education is not merely to provide knowledge but to build a world where equity, justice and sustainability are realities, not aspirations.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">ETHIOPIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241023191557744" style="color:#000;">Ethiopia’s bold plan to train five million coders should involve HE</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wondwosen Tamrat</div>In one of the biggest projects of its kind in Africa, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Innovation and Technology has started to recruit five million young people, including students, to become coders – a bold attempt to create active participants in a digital economy. What role can higher education play to ensure its success?</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">ASIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241022144029685" style="color:#000;">‘Common space’ agreement heralds new era for HE cooperation</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Romyen Kosaikanont, Philip Masterson, Roger Y Chao Jr and Darren J McDermott</div>The recent joint declaration adopted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the body representing the region’s education ministers represents a profound breakthrough in harmonising Southeast Asian higher education, forging a common space to drive the region’s socio-economic development and global relevance.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AUSTRALIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241022133918783" style="color:#000;">Digital era migration brokerage: We need more research</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Earvin Charles B Cabalquinto, Ly Tran, Luzhou Li, George Tan and Zala Volcic</div>Against a backdrop of international education and migration policy changes, there has been increased promotion of migration pathways by brokers across online channels, yet we know little about how digital technologies are used to broker migration pathways among prospective students and temporary migrants.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241022114043257" style="color:#000;">Saving science from temptations of big data: A worthy fight</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Gary N Smith</div>The assault on science posed by modern computers and big data goes beyond large language models like ChatGPT. However, there are steps that can be taken to restore the lustre of science, including more rigorous review by journals and investment in reproducibility studies.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">EUROPE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241022105712715" style="color:#000;">Developing new income streams is not easy for universities</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Enora Bennetot Pruvot</div>Faced with steady cost pressures and limited prospects for higher public funding, universities are looking to manage risks and generate income from diversified sources, but building financial resilience through diversification is no easy task and requires staff professionalisation and a focus on leadership development.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241018115946430" style="color:#000;">‘Responsible partnership’ starts by examining our language</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Elizabeth Agbor Eta and Anaïs Georges</div>The 26th Annual Conference of the International Education Association of South Africa was an opportunity to reflect on the real meaning of ‘responsible partnership’ and the importance of preceding any partnership with a critical examination of the power dynamics inherent in communication practices.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">ETHIOPIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241016182328277" style="color:#000;">The language predicament in multilingual universities</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wondwosen Tamrat</div>Ethiopia is a multi-ethnic country in which about 80 languages are spoken across the nation, explaining ongoing efforts to recognise multilingualism in the educational context. However, proper language planning and pragmatic policy-making are needed to address the apparent neglect to develop a language or languages of integration.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024101610082715" style="color:#000;">Student voices on the global policy-making stage are growing</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Manja Klemencic</div>Participation of students in formal decision-making varies from country to country. However, the emerging global narrative of student agency and students as partners in transforming education suggests students have a role in educational decision-making, even if the democratic ideals of educational governance diminish.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CHINA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241016075456861" style="color:#000;">Can research-based undergraduate education be scaled up?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Futao Huang</div>While the research-based education model aimed at producing innovative and high-quality talent at undergraduate level has achieved notable success in China’s research universities, its widespread implementation faces several challenges such as funding and the design of more comprehensive and flexible evaluation systems.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241016075125202" style="color:#000;">What makes for a successful international education hub?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Fabrizio Trifiró</div>There is no single best model for an international education hub as each will depend on various factors, particularly the rationale underlying its establishment and the broader socio-economic and regulatory context. But there are key aspects to consider in developing a successful hub.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241015152402851" style="color:#000;">Visa trends: The US needs a new international education plan</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Ragh Singh</div>Denying a student visa based on the probability the applicant will immigrate can be a complicated issue. The next United States administration needs a plan that creates a clear pathway from the issuing of student visas to work visa opportunities and, ultimately, immigration options.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CHINA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241015145513146" style="color:#000;">More STEM PhDs come home as China’s global standing soars</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Xiujuan Sun and Hantian Wu</div>China is enjoying an escalation in return migration among Chinese early career STEM researchers trained in destinations across the world. To capitalise on this trend, Chinese higher education institutions need to embrace more formal and transparent faculty recruitment practices at a systemic scale.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241011085717672" style="color:#000;">Leveraging universities to achieve the Pact for the Future</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Kevin Wong, Meg Harris and Isabel Toman</div>Higher education institutions are not explicitly mentioned in the UN’s Pact for the Future, yet they are critical to advancing the pact’s ambitions to meet future challenges, optimising efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and can themselves be a catalyst for change.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL-AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241009183749883" style="color:#000;">To advance women in science, courageous leaders are needed</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Teresa Woodruff</div>Be globally strategic when seeking to empower women; be institutionally systematic in advancing women in science, and apply tactics that directly facilitate individual attainment and sustainability, higher education leaders heard at a discussion about advancing the role of women in science for sustainable development in Africa.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241009091044313" style="color:#000;">Drop in US recruiters creates risky information gap in China</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Xiaofeng Wan</div>The decline in the number of university recruiters travelling from the United States to China is not only creating a huge information gap but is closing down opportunities for people-to-people diplomacy that both countries urgently need – now and for the foreseeable future.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED KINGDOM</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241008154820578" style="color:#000;">Are overseas branch campuses reproducing class privilege?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Eva Hartmann, Sangwoo Lee and Nadiah Thanthawi-Jauhari</div>A recent study examines whether other types of transnational higher education are better equipped than the largely exclusive British overseas branch campuses to co-produce knowledge and contribute to epistemic justice that overcomes the colonial legacy of Western knowledge still taught in British universities.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES-CHINA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241008145758730" style="color:#000;">The current China-phobia is harming US national interests</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Denis Simon</div>The notion that anything beneficial for China must inherently be bad for the United States creates a barrier that will be increasingly difficult to overcome in the future. In the realms of education, science and technology, the US cannot afford to be estranged from China.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241008120257787" style="color:#000;">Students are active agents in transnational higher education</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wanwei Nie</div>While institutional strategies and geopolitical contexts set the framework, students themselves ultimately determine how transnational higher education programmes are perceived and used. By understanding students’ diverse perspectives, institutions can adapt their offerings to better serve a wide range of academic and professional aspirations.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AUSTRALIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241008110313905" style="color:#000;">Don’t be ‘dodgy’: How to build trust in higher education</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Hamish Coates, Gwilym Croucher, Nadine Zacharias, Angel Calderon and Ant Bagshaw</div>To regain public trust, universities must move beyond their ivory towers, acknowledge their shortcomings and strive to restore confidence by being open about their challenges and successes. Ultimately, trust in higher education is essential for its continued success and for the public good.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241003144700992" style="color:#000;">Why we need a balanced, two-tier approach to AI governance</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Tianchong Wang and Libing Wang</div>Comprehensive governance frameworks are essential to effectively manage risks and ethical dilemmas associated with AI. Governments must provide clear, enforceable regulations that address the needs of higher education, while institutions must develop tailored governance strategies that ensure AI is used responsibly and ethically.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CHINA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241001140701870" style="color:#000;">New law offers more scope for international joint degrees</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Yuzhuo Cai and Wenqin Shen</div>Although the new 2024 Degree Act does not mention the term ‘joint degree’, the act marks a significant milestone in the reform of Chinese higher education, aligning it more closely with international standards and substantially enhancing the scope for international collaboration.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241001140316637" style="color:#000;">We cannot adopt a blanket approach to research security</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Tommy Shih</div>As attention increasingly turns towards the protection of national interests, it is important to articulate the goals of research security measures, the processes through which national interests can be achieved and to critically analyse the impact and proportionality of research security measures.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241001140016317" style="color:#000;">More than ever, we need a focus on global employability</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Louise Nicol</div>At present the actions of governments and some sector bodies will encourage further restriction of international student recruitment. Finding ways to support international student employability – and even make revenue from it – could become even more critical if universities are to weather the coming storm.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CHINA-UNITED STATES</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241001135143943" style="color:#000;">The US needs to restart the Fulbright programme in China</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Philip G Altbach and Gerard A Postiglione</div>The Fulbright programme, which operated in Hong Kong for many years before it was terminated during the Donald Trump administration, represents a small but historically important contribution to international exchange and mutual academic understanding. As such, it should be immediately restarted.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES-QATAR</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240927115452995" style="color:#000;">The need to collaborate globally is stronger now than ever</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Francisco Marmolejo</div>The decision by the Texas A&M board of regents to close its Qatar campus is not only regretful but shows the vulnerability of higher education institutions as they face nonsensical political pressures aimed at damaging the academic integrity of colleges and universities.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">ASIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024092413470935" style="color:#000;">ASEAN declaration is milestone for regional HE space</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Que Anh Dang and Doria Abdullah</div>A recent declaration aimed at the creation of a common space for higher education in the Southeast Asian region signals a shift towards an inside-out region-building strategy, guided by the core belief that a region’s inner strengths and capabilities will build a sustainable future.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240925133125435" style="color:#000;">Digital literacy is a non-negotiable competency for students</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Patrick Blessinger</div>Digital literacy is one of the most critical competencies for future-ready students as digital transformation continues to reshape higher education and the world of work. Upgrading curricula, faculty professional development and student support are vital to preparing students and closing the digital divide.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240924135519463" style="color:#000;">Generative AI: The challenges for social science research</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Thomas Robinson</div>A workshop involving social science researchers at the cutting edge of applying and studying generative AI confirmed that although AI allows researchers to perform tasks at previously impossible scales and precisions, it does not remove the need for foundational social science skills.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CANADA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240924135041735" style="color:#000;">What employers really value in students who study abroad</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Melanie Siegfried, Kellie McMullin and Nannette Ripmeester</div>A study examining the real-world impact of studying abroad on career prospects of Canadian graduates found that international experiences are beneficial but are not a golden ticket to employment. The key lies in an ability to articulate how such experiences have sharpened skills.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240923113115848" style="color:#000;">Student loneliness is ubiquitous, but it can be addressed</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Alicia Wodika, Jacqueline Lanier, Jim Almeda, Aubrey Richter and Gabriella Schalasky</div>A recent research paper that highlights the prevalence of student mental health challenges offers insights into the devastating and collective impacts of social isolation, identifies organisations that are addressing loneliness on campuses and offers strategies faculty and staff can use to support students.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240919133624664" style="color:#000;">Startups can offer student interns real-life advantages</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Samantha Dewalt and Sarah Leedberg</div>An internship with an early-stage startup, as opposed to an established company, offers students a chance to tackle real-life challenges. Rather than merely listening to and observing more experienced employees in action, they participate in – and directly contribute to – day-to-day business functions.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SOUTH AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240916095036366" style="color:#000;">The new ‘et al’: High risks for university research</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Addamms Mututa</div>A new cohort of academic authors is short-changing the academic enterprise by deliberately and shamelessly unpicking the intimate connection that exists between the academic author and their research and publication. What does the cure for this kind of malaise look like?</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SOUTH AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024091707121233" style="color:#000;">Advancement: Navigating challenges with a mission-driven focus</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Karen Bruns</div>From student protests and policy changes to reputational crises and natural disasters – universities are familiar with crises. For advancement professionals and university leaders tasked with fundraising, it is crucial not to retreat in times of difficulty, but to remain open, transparent and engaged.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240918080908548" style="color:#000;">Presidential election rhetoric poses ongoing concern for HE</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Holly Buttrey</div>If there continues to be no welcoming rhetoric from the federal government, students considering the United States as a potential study destination, and their families, may conclude that there is a physical safety risk to attending college or university in the US.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CHINA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240918080519514" style="color:#000;">China’s unique path to scientific and technological power</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Caroline S Wagner</div>The literature on research policy often assumes a dynamic interplay between democratic nations, science and innovation, but at least in the case of China, science depends more on state capacities, a situation which may have an impact on the composition of global science.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">EUROPE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240917151528108" style="color:#000;">Greece enters the qualifications fold: Why it’s remarkable</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Sjur Bergan</div>Greece’s ratification of the Lisbon Recognition Convention, 25 years after it came into force in February 1999, demonstrates that the convention and, beyond it, multilateral intergovernmental legal treaties in general, continue to play an important role in furthering the fair recognition of qualifications.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240917140123829" style="color:#000;">Foreign medical education: Widespread. Unknown. Unregulated</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Philip G Altbach and Hans de Wit</div>No one knows exactly how many international students are studying in medical schools outside their home countries, but a conservative estimate might put it at more than 200,000 – many of them in institutions and in countries with a questionable quality of medical preparation.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024091114534938" style="color:#000;">Learning organisations help to advance sustainability in HE</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Patrick Blessinger, Abhilasha Singh, Madasu Bhaskara Rao and Mirela Panait</div>Adopting the principles of a learning organisation can enhance the ability of universities to embed education for sustainable development into teaching-learning, research and outreach. A culture of continuous learning and innovation equips students and staff to tackle the complex challenges of sustainability.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240910140958947" style="color:#000;">The environmental emergency is real. HE is our best hope</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Marcelo Knobel and Néri de Barros Almeida</div>Higher education institutions are strategic focal points for tackling the environmental emergency we are experiencing. The question is when institutions will react and whether they will do so in time to take advantage of the window of opportunity that is beginning to close.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES-GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240911102150634" style="color:#000;">What global outliers can teach us about internationalisation</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Jenny J Lee and Giorgio Marinoni</div>A global report on internationalisation of higher education sheds light on the ways that internationalisation in the United States operates in contrast to the rest of the world, showing the importance, in successful and sustainable international partnerships, of recognising a diversity of approaches.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240910141234265" style="color:#000;">Project 2025 poses a threat to US global leadership in HE</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">James Yoonil Auh</div>If implemented, Project 2025 may result in an erosion of diversity in thought and research that could stifle the innovation that has been the hallmark of higher education in the United States, leaving institutions less capable of addressing global challenges and damaging the US’s global standing.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">EUROPE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240910112202361" style="color:#000;">Universities need a new generation of visionary leaders</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Thomas Estermann and Maria Blanco</div>The European University Association has launched a pilot Leadership Development Programme with a distinct European focus, designed to equip university leaders with a diverse skill set that goes beyond traditional management and to enable them to steer their institutions toward a thriving future.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">INDIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024091010552880" style="color:#000;">India’s ranking framework is at odds with national policy</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Chetan Singai and TR Kumaraswamy</div>By aligning more closely with the National Education Policy of 2020, India’s National Institutional Ranking Framework will encourage the development of multidisciplinary education and research universities, and ensure that its greater mission of becoming a truly national framework for ranking is achieved.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240906083858230" style="color:#000;">Global student recruitment: Don’t expect any sudden shifts</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Hans de Wit</div>Countries in Asia and other regions are gradually shifting towards welcoming international students. While their competitive strengths are clear, this does not mean a major shift in international student mobility from the Global North to the rest of the world will happen soon.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">PAKISTAN</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=202409031309386" style="color:#000;">Rural students need support to bridge school-university gap</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Hamid Ali Khan Eusafzai</div>A study on the struggles of rural Pakistani students suggests that if universities want to create an equitable and supportive learning environment, they need to recognise the unique challenges faced by rural students and provide the necessary support to facilitate their successful integration.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240903115753524" style="color:#000;">Innovative universities deserve both attention and support</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Isak Frumin and Dara Melnyk</div>Despite being rare, innovative universities do appear and, if successful, can challenge the way other universities think about teaching, research, knowledge transfer or governance. We have a plan to showcase those institutions that think more boldly, more creatively, or just differently from others.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AUSTRALIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240903115454427" style="color:#000;">International student caps: A highly bureaucratic approach</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Gwilym Croucher and Christopher Ziguras</div>The Australian government’s new policy of international student caps is even more radical than the measures taken by two of its major competitors – the United Kingdom and Canada – and it could set a new benchmark in government micromanagement of international higher education.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240902105918760" style="color:#000;">University policies have not kept up with ‘everyday racism’</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Angie Beeman</div>University leaders who are serious about tackling racist targeting of faculty should appoint people who understand the nuances of subtle racism, as evidenced by their long-term scholarship and critical work on racism – not just their ability to superficially celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">ASIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240828185724794" style="color:#000;">Playing it safe is not an option in our bid to achieve SDGs</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Libing Wang</div>Given the challenges facing our world, a business-as-usual mindset is likely to fall short of achieving the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. True success will require innovative thinking, calculated risk-taking and creative problem-solving – skills and qualities that are central to entrepreneurship education.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240821210239251" style="color:#000;">Universities should include students with invisible disabilities</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Simon Ngalomba</div>Inclusive education has been a buzzword in multiple international contexts. The Salamanca Statement on Special Needs Education; Sustainable Development Goal 4, which aims to ensure inclusive quality education; as well as the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities have all helped to place the focus on persons with disabilities.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240828120741486" style="color:#000;">China vs the West: Snow’s ‘two culture’ theory goes global</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Richard Holmes</div>Two global academic cultures seem to be emerging with their centres in China, and in North America and Western Europe. While China is effectively the superpower in mathematics, science and engineering, the Anglo-American world still reigns supreme in humanities and social sciences.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">JAPAN</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240827180124245" style="color:#000;">‘Super-ageing crisis’ puts focus on HE’s global appeal</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Murod Ismailov</div>By fostering a more globally connected and innovative academic environment, Japan could transform its universities into attractive destinations for international students and researchers. This, in turn, can mitigate the financial challenges posed by declining domestic enrolments and revitalise the country’s academic institutions.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240827182451588" style="color:#000;">New frameworks of reference stir hope for academic freedom</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Liviu Matei</div>The emergence around the world, at different levels, of new frameworks of reference for academic freedom, which contribute to a puzzle of overlapping older and more recent frameworks, is a remarkable recent development that provides many positive signs and reasons for hope.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AUSTRALIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240827170543945" style="color:#000;">How would higher education look with a Students Accord?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Angel Calderon, Hamish Coates, Gwilym Croucher and Nadine Zacharias</div>By definition, a universal tertiary system will have students with more diverse needs and preferences. Providers need to be ready to meet the needs of learners, not just through a market-driven supply of places but also through inclusive education models and customised support.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">EUROPE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240820121942220" style="color:#000;">Gaps in research funding could be holding back SDG progress</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Yanick Inghels, Kris Boudt and Andre Spithoven</div>Despite formal integration of the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, in Horizon Europe, a new methodology monitoring the European Union’s research spending shows inequalities in how SDGs are funded and raises questions about the effectiveness of the EU’s substantial research funding in relation to advancing the goals.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240819111432800" style="color:#000;">Rebuilding HE after war is essential to a nation’s recovery</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Savo Heleta and Logan Cochrane</div>Rebuilding higher education after conflict is key to socio-economic recovery, peace-building, development and progress. Yet bilateral donors, who provide the majority of aid to higher education in conflict settings, prioritise international scholarships while neglecting rebuilding and strengthening of local systems and institutions.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">PALESTINE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240813161936167" style="color:#000;">Universities can take concrete steps to support HE in Gaza</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Mona Jebril</div>A new briefing paper which examines the role of universities at times of war and crisis offers concrete ways in which universities around the world can support students and academics from Gaza right now and can help to rebuild higher education after the war.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024081208153252" style="color:#000;">Teaching abroad is an invaluable experience: Ask Tim Walz</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Ryan M Allen</div>The international education sector often champions people-to-people exchanges by sending students abroad, but teachers are also an important part of this process. Tim Walz’s political ascendancy reminds us just how foundational teaching abroad can be to an individual – or even a nation.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CHINA-UNITED KINGDOM</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240805131807130" style="color:#000;">Transnational higher education: Lessons from China</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Cheryl Yu</div>Despite the fact that transnational education in China requires UK universities to invest additional resources in the running of the entire transnational education venture, joint institutes have been very popular for UK universities and they are also profitable – if they are implemented properly.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240805110823869" style="color:#000;">Olympics highlights ‘intense’ link between science and sport</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Yannis Pitsiladis</div>While millions turn their attention to the feats of elite athletes at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, behind-the-scenes academic research that supports Olympian efforts and the rules and regulations imposed by global sporting bodies and the International Olympic Committee is also being tested.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AUSTRALIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240801170139121" style="color:#000;">International education policy needs a critical re-think</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Xing Xu and Ly Tran</div>The public debates about international education and both the commercialisation and politicisation of international education overshadow international students’ contributions to Australian education, culture, society and communities – with dire consequences. All in all, the issue deserves more critical discussion from diverse voices.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240726092407654" style="color:#000;">Choosing a publisher? It’s not all about the impact factor</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Antigoni Messaritaki</div>As the academic publishing industry evolves, researchers have the opportunity to choose a publisher who is aligned with their own values. While the impact factor of a journal remains a significant consideration, it should not be the sole determinant when making a choice.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">VIETNAM</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240724155525437" style="color:#000;">Student recruitment: What a good partnership looks like</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Mark A Ashwill</div>The best partnerships between education agents and higher education institutions are forged via a two-way process that involves honest discussion, trust-building, intuition and due diligence. Here are some of the criteria I use in determining whether or not to work with an institution.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">EUROPE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240724140655494" style="color:#000;">Future scenarios for transnational university cooperation</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Anna-Lena Claeys-Kulik and Thomas Jørgensen</div>A European University Association report released earlier this year outlines four forecasts to describe possible futures for transnational cooperation between European universities and explores concrete situations, such as: what if the international office closes because nationalist politics have made it irrelevant?</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240723133711100" style="color:#000;">How student leadership drives sustainability activities</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Isabel Toman, Margaret Harris and Sonya Peres</div>The success of education for sustainability initiatives hinges on student engagement and leadership. Engaged students are more likely to internalise sustainability principles, apply them in real-world contexts and become proactive agents of change in their communities and later in their professional lives.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240722231808375" style="color:#000;">Revival of Africa’s railways needs a robust HE sector response</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Goolam Mohamedbhai</div>Higher education institutions in Africa will have to boost their engineering training to meet the expected increasing demand for experts in the railway sector. Also, because of the specialised nature of the industry, institutions will have to work closely with the industry to understand and meet its specific requirements.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240722120300732" style="color:#000;">Individualism and pluralism: A new mission for study abroad</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Brian Whalen and William Durden</div>American society is increasingly divided by emotionally charged tribalism, a damaging form of political division involving visceral dislike of the opposition. The high impact learning of education abroad can offer a possible remedy if it embodies the democratic principles of pluralism and individualism.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">VIETNAM</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240717153909525" style="color:#000;">Lies, damned lies and statistics: Overseas study edition</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Mark A Ashwill</div>It is important when looking at international student mobility to ensure that the figures used are accurate, so that shifting trends can be accurately tracked. Information collection paints a useful picture of where Vietnamese are studying and can easily be applied to any country.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED STATES</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240717141423969" style="color:#000;">Could the US benefit from the international student backlash elsewhere?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Rachel Scholten</div>The United States has the capacity to accommodate more international students as other major receiving countries restrict numbers. 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