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valign="top"> <div class="article-brief"> <div class=""> <div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div> <div class="botmar4"><h1 class="muchbiggerheading"><a href="?publication=global&report=EducationforSustDevVII">Higher education and sustainability – Green jobs</a></h1></div> <table><tr><td valign="top"> <div class="botmar4 strapline" style=""></div> <div class="byline-country botmar12"></div> Ahead of the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP29 – which kicks off in Baku, Azerbaijan, next week, <I>University World News</I> explores ways in which higher education is or ought to be responding to the urgent need for more graduates with the sustainability skills required for the world’s rapidly growing number of green jobs. </td> <td style="width:357px" valign="top"> <img src="https://www.universityworldnews.com/images/articles/20241104092359605_5.jpg" style="float:right; width:350px; padding-left:8px; padding-top:3px" alt="PHOTO"> </td></tr></table> </div> </div> </td> </tr></tbody></table> </div><div class="section-head-white-on-black botmar8"><a href="?publication=global&report=EducationforSustDevVI">Education for Sustainable Development VI</a></div> <div style="" class="botmar12 botmar8"> <table><tbody><tr> <td style="width:100%" class="" valign="top"> <div class="article-brief"> <div class=""> <div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div> <div class="botmar4"><h1 class="muchbiggerheading"><a href="?publication=global&report=EducationforSustDevVI">Higher education and sustainability – Learning organisations</a></h1></div> <table><tr><td valign="top"> <div class="botmar4 strapline" style=""></div> <div class="byline-country botmar12"></div> In advance of the United Nations’ Summit of the Future, <I>University World News</I> is publishing the latest in its series of special reports on higher education and sustainability. This report focuses on how ‘learning organisations’ that are innovative and adaptable are helping to advance education for sustainable development worldwide. </td> <td style="width:357px" valign="top"> <img src="https://www.universityworldnews.com/images/articles/20240912154922683_5.jpg" style="float:right; width:350px; padding-left:8px; padding-top:3px" alt="PHOTO"> </td></tr></table> </div> </div> </td> </tr></tbody></table> </div><div class="section-head-white-on-black botmar8"><a href="?publication=global&report=HESIGlobalForum">HESI Global Forum</a></div> <div style="" class="botmar12 botmar8"> <table><tbody><tr> <td style="width:100%" class="" valign="top"> <div class="article-brief"> <div class=""> <div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div> <div class="botmar4"><h1 class="muchbiggerheading"><a href="?publication=global&report=HESIGlobalForum">Higher education at the 2024 UN political forum on sustainability</a></h1></div> <table><tr><td valign="top"> <div class="botmar4 strapline" style=""></div> <div class="byline-country botmar12"></div> There were multiple activities around higher education and sustainability at the United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development held in New York from 8 to 17 July 2024, coordinated by the UN’s Higher Education Sustainability Initiative, HESI. <I>University World News</I> reports. </td> <td style="width:357px" valign="top"> <img src="https://www.universityworldnews.com/images/articles/20240729134858201_5.jpg" style="float:right; width:350px; padding-left:8px; padding-top:3px" alt="PHOTO"> </td></tr></table> </div> </div> </td> </tr></tbody></table> </div><div class="section-head-white-on-black botmar8"><a href="?publication=global&report=AIandResearch">AI and Higher Education III</a></div> <div style="" class="botmar12 botmar8"> <table><tbody><tr> <td style="width:100%" class="" valign="top"> <div class="article-brief"> <div class=""> <div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div> <div class="botmar4"><h1 class="muchbiggerheading"><a href="?publication=global&report=AIandResearch">Exploring the fast-growing role of AI in academic research</a></h1></div> <table><tr><td valign="top"> <div class="botmar4 strapline" style=""></div> <div class="byline-country botmar12"></div> Research that uses generative AI is expanding rapidly across fields, and is accelerating and transforming scientific knowledge. For three months <I>University World News</I> has published a weekly series of articles on ‘AI and Research’, exploring the multiplying ways in which AI is involved in higher education research, and culminating in this Special Report. </td> <td style="width:357px" valign="top"> <img src="https://www.universityworldnews.com/images/articles/20240701082646872_5.jpg" style="float:right; width:350px; padding-left:8px; padding-top:3px" alt="PHOTO"> </td></tr></table> </div> </div> </td> </tr></tbody></table> </div><div class="section-head-white-on-black botmar8"><a href="?publication=global&report=EducationforSustDevV">Education for Sustainable Development V</a></div> <div style="" class="botmar12 botmar8"> <table><tbody><tr> <td style="width:100%" class="" valign="top"> <div class="article-brief"> <div class=""> <div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div> <div class="botmar4"><h1 class="muchbiggerheading"><a href="?publication=global&report=EducationforSustDevV">Higher education can make a key contribution to peace</a></h1></div> <table><tr><td valign="top"> <div class="botmar4 strapline" style=""></div> <div class="byline-country botmar12"></div> Higher education can advance healing and reconciliation in situations as varied as post-apartheid South Africa and post-conflict Colombia and strengthen resilience in conflict situations such as Ukraine. But there is also value in helping all students globally develop peace-building skills for life. </td> <td style="width:357px" valign="top"> <img src="https://www.universityworldnews.com/images/articles/20240617102803398_5.jpg" style="float:right; width:350px; padding-left:8px; padding-top:3px" alt="PHOTO"> </td></tr></table> </div> </div> </td> </tr></tbody></table> </div><div class="section-head-white-on-black botmar8"><a href="?publication=global&report=WorldConferenceonResearchIntegrity">World Conference on Research Integrity</a></div> <div style="" class="botmar12 botmar8"> <table><tbody><tr> <td style="width:100%" class="" valign="top"> <div class="article-brief"> <div class=""> <div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div> <div class="botmar4"><h1 class="muchbiggerheading"><a href="?publication=global&report=WorldConferenceonResearchIntegrity">Crafting research integrity responses for a tumultuous time</a></h1></div> <table><tr><td valign="top"> <div class="botmar4 strapline" style=""></div> <div class="byline-country botmar12"></div> The World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation’s 8th WCRI took place in Athens, Greece, from 2 to 5 June. The biennial WCRIs are key events on the global research integrity calendar that convene experts from across fields to discuss developments in research integrity and to draft a policy statement. <I>University World News</I> reports. </td> <td style="width:357px" valign="top"> <img src="https://www.universityworldnews.com/images/articles/20240606135334548_5.jpg" style="float:right; width:350px; padding-left:8px; padding-top:3px" alt="PHOTO"> </td></tr></table> </div> </div> </td> </tr></tbody></table> </div><div class="section-head-white-on-black botmar8"><a href="?publication=global&report=Changemakers">Changemakers</a></div> <div style="" class="botmar12 botmar8"> <table><tbody><tr> <td style="width:100%" class="" valign="top"> <div class="article-brief"> <div class=""> <div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div> <div class="botmar4"><h1 class="muchbiggerheading"><a href="?publication=global&report=Changemakers">Universities for transforming society and planetary health</a></h1></div> <table><tr><td valign="top"> <div class="botmar4 strapline" style=""></div> <div class="byline-country botmar12"></div> This <I>University World News</I> series looks at higher education institutions that are making it their mission to become vehicles of societal transformation and champions of planetary health by refocusing teaching, learning and research on engaging with communities to solve local and global challenges. </td> <td style="width:357px" valign="top"> <img src="https://www.universityworldnews.com/images/articles/20240525082903955_5.jpg" style="float:right; width:350px; padding-left:8px; padding-top:3px" alt="PHOTO"> </td></tr></table> </div> </div> </td> </tr></tbody></table> </div><div class="section-head-white-on-black botmar8"><a href="?publication=global&report=2024ASUGSVSummit">2024 ASU+GSV Summit</a></div> <div style="" class="botmar12 botmar8"> <table><tbody><tr> <td style="width:100%" class="" valign="top"> <div class="article-brief"> <div class=""> <div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div> <div class="botmar4"><h1 class="muchbiggerheading"><a href="?publication=global&report=2024ASUGSVSummit">2024 ASU+GSV Summit explores the AI revolution in education</a></h1></div> <table><tr><td valign="top"> <div class="botmar4 strapline" style=""></div> <div class="byline-country botmar12"></div> The annual ASU+GSV Summit is a collaboration between Arizona State University and venture capital company Global Silicon Valley, held this year in San Diego in the United States from 14-17 April. It is a leading education technology summit at which researchers and innovators debate developments and trends in digital learning and skills. <I>University World News</I> reports. </td> <td style="width:357px" valign="top"> <img src="https://www.universityworldnews.com/images/articles/20240425170423383_5.jpg" style="float:right; width:350px; padding-left:8px; padding-top:3px" alt="PHOTO"> </td></tr></table> </div> </div> </td> </tr></tbody></table> </div><div class="section-head-white-on-black botmar8"><a href="?publication=global&report=ABET2024Symposium">ABET 2024 Symposium</a></div> <div style="" class="botmar12 botmar8"> <table><tbody><tr> <td style="width:100%" class="" valign="top"> <div class="article-brief"> <div class=""> <div class="byline-country countries">GLOBAL</div> <div class="botmar4"><h1 class="muchbiggerheading"><a href="?publication=global&report=ABET2024Symposium">Exploring science fiction and fact, AI and higher education</a></h1></div> <table><tr><td valign="top"> <div class="botmar4 strapline" style=""></div> <div class="byline-country botmar12"></div> <I>University World News</I> was the media partner at the 2024 ABET Symposium, titled “Science Fiction to Science Fact: The impact of AI on higher education” and held in Tampa, Florida, in the United States from 4-5 April. 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