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Fostering psychological capital, including resilience, plays a vital role in enhancing doctoral students’ well-being – more so than supervisor support.</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=20241113122522792" style="color:#000;">Education tourism: A perfect solution to the West’s woes</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Louise Nicol</div>Reframing international education as education tourism could help to keep our esteemed universities solvent through international tuition fees while subsidising the degree studies of domestic students of limited means, as more young people in developed economies opt for skills-based education delivered through industry.</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=20241106070753910" style="color:#000;">Where choosing South-South mobility is a compromise</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Xing Xu and Ly Tran</div>Recent research shows that Malaysia represents a ‘realistic compromise’ as a study destination among Chinese doctoral students whose first choice – typically universities in Western countries – is unattainable. This shows the desirability and superiority of certain destinations over others with regard to student mobility.</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=20241030071254454" style="color:#000;">Study shows the importance of student guidance in use of AI</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Alexandra R Costa, Natércia Lima, Clara Viegas and Amélia Caldeira</div>Research suggests that students will use AI tools regardless of teachers’ preferences, making it essential that teachers and universities encourage students to use the tools wisely. This includes fostering critical thinking, promoting ethical behaviour and encouraging interaction in the classroom to strengthen social skills.</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=20241022145946618" style="color:#000;">Complicated grade conversion is limiting student mobility</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Joyce Aguiar and Thais França</div>Improved grade conversion practices are necessary not only to enhance efficiency but to foster greater equity and transparency in higher education, ensuring that learning mobility remains a key pillar of the European Higher Education Area, benefiting students, universities and society at large.</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=20241015135345229" style="color:#000;">Graduate jobs back home can curb far right’s HE threat</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Louise Nicol</div>Universities throughout the European continent need to focus on supporting their international graduates’ successful transition to the workforce back in their home countries and thereby ensure the far right does not hamper their ability and desire to internationalise now and in the 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=20241009101224751" style="color:#000;">Interdisciplinary research grabs policy-makers’ attention</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Liang Hu, Win-bin Huang and Yi Bu</div>A recent study indicates that interdisciplinary research receives more attention from policy documents in almost all fields when compared with research focused on a single discipline and thus plays a significant role in facilitating the translation of scientific research into tangible policy outcomes.</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=20241001135514347" style="color:#000;">How student mobility practitioners can benefit from research</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Elina Apsite-Berina and Eleonora Erittu</div>Regular engagement with research and the researchers who are involved in the academic study of international student mobility can empower student mobility practitioners to stay informed, to foster continuous improvement and to make a lasting impact on the world around 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=20240923103832706" style="color:#000;">Cultivating staff sensitivity to cultural differences</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nita Temmerman</div>Universities have a significant role to play in ensuring that those staff members who engage in international projects are sensitive to cultural practices that are different to their own and are aware of how their own culture influences their values and behaviours.</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=20240917150435265" style="color:#000;">Mentorship programmes: A vital part of student success</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Salman Haq</div>Academic setbacks are a natural part of the learning process, but they do not have to derail a student’s educational journey. With the support of a mentor, students can learn to overcome challenges, build resilience, and ultimately achieve their academic and professional goals.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">LEBANON</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240911104702585" style="color:#000;">Revitalising higher education requires a concerted effort</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Bassem Kaissi</div>Lebanon’s ability to maintain its competitive edge in human capital development in the region depends on a restructured higher education sector that is aligned with local requirements and emerging international higher education trends. This revitalisation process requires cooperation among all relevant stakeholders.</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=20240903115134927" style="color:#000;">Higher education needs to monitor these four undercurrents</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Marguerite J Dennis</div>While they may not be fully apparent in the present moment, there are several undercurrents of trends in higher education that are likely to affect the direction of the sector in the years to come. Here, four of them are outlined.</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=20240829081715342" style="color:#000;">PhD versus DBA: Let’s debunk the myth once and for all</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Raji Sivaraman and Breno Nunes</div>As we evolve towards impact-seeking research, the Doctor of Business Administration or DBA will become of strategic importance for business schools and faculties. For individuals, the degree offers the choice of a career in industry as a reflective practitioner or a well-earned place in academia.</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=20240814104415853" style="color:#000;">Universities are economic growth engines, not cost centres</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Louise Nicol</div>While the future looks bleak for Australian tertiary education right now, there is an opportunity to shift the narrative and conceive of students as ‘assets’ rather than costs by opening up a direct link between graduation and employment, thereby raising productivity and economic growth.</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=20240726103732778" style="color:#000;">European University Alliances: A strategy for the future</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Katerina Klimoska</div>European University Alliances create a sense of belonging and unity. As such, they are much more than a project; they are a strategy for a future through which Europe can transform its societies and play its role as leader on the global stage.</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=20240710133020903" style="color:#000;">Decision-making in universities cannot happen in a vacuum</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nita Temmerman</div>Decision-making, a crucial element in organisational success in all organisations, including multifaceted institutions like universities, does not nor should not take place in a vacuum. It must harmonise with the mission, strategy, goals, policy, procedures and delegations set down by the individual institution.</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=20240712204452721" style="color:#000;">Why universities need strategies for knowledge diplomacy</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Ylva Rodny-Gumede</div>Through knowledge diplomacy, universities will not only be able to engage more meaningfully with global grand challenges, but also change narratives around history and how these continue to influence geopolitical debates, narratives and perceptions, hopefully contributing to the decolonisation of geopolitics.</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=20240705135907543" style="color:#000;">International students: What can we expect from a new era?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Chris Millward</div>After Labour’s substantial election victory in the United Kingdom, vice-chancellors will have more confidence that their government understands the value of international partnerships and students. However, they will need more detail on the new government’s immigration and university finances approach before they can refocus on their higher purpose.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED KINGDOM-CANADA-AUSTRALIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024062614581124" style="color:#000;">All change. Have UK universities actually dodged a bullet?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Louise Nicol</div>Do restrictions on international students in Canada and Australia and political developments on the home front mean universities in the United Kingdom can relax about international student numbers or do they need to rethink the post-study work route and encourage students to return home after graduation?</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=20240618111226837" style="color:#000;">Student recruitment: An industry too long in the shadows</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Louise Nicol</div>Governments in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are calling for increased student recruitment agent regulation within international education. But is regulation the best path forward, or is demanding total transparency from all universities and agents regarding their relationships the better approach?</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">LEBANON</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240614101241135" style="color:#000;">Masters reforms threaten academic freedom and autonomy</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Bassem Kaissi</div>As part of the reform framework launched last year by Lebanon’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education which aims to organise and regulate the Lebanese higher education sector, several decrees, resolutions and circulars have been issued. However, the framework has some glaring omissions and oversights.</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=20240604115813345" style="color:#000;">What makes a Nobel Prize winner and why does it matter?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Richard SJ Tol</div>By studying the academic lineages of Nobel Prize winners, we can learn a lot about how they form relatively closely related and self-replicating groups and about good postdoctoral education.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">PORTUGAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240529154749383" style="color:#000;">The use of fixed-term contract researchers as factotums</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">David Cairns</div>Many early career researchers on fixed-term contracts are being exploited through their use as factotums, expected to carry out tasks for more senior staff at the expense of their own work. Universities need to address power imbalances between academic staff and rethink institutional ethics.</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=20240521150444987" style="color:#000;">Nurse practicum payment: A long overdue promise of equity</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Lesley Andrew</div>Without meaningful redress, the unpaid nursing practicum in Australia will continue to pose inequitable challenges for less privileged students and ultimately contribute to an unrepresentative nursing workforce with an insufficient breadth of skills and life experiences to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population.</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=20240514084738238" style="color:#000;">Twitter may still be a great place for student communities</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Olivia Kelly</div>It is recognised that distance learners in particular are more at risk of dropping out, lack regular connection with fellow students and struggle to feel a sense of community. Could Twitter (now X) offer that much-needed connection and community for distance learners?</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=20240510210951744" style="color:#000;">What went wrong with international education in the UK?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Louise Nicol</div>The United Kingdom higher education sector has gone from doing fairly well during the pandemic when it comes to attracting international students to facing more immigration curbs ahead of the elections, with the risks this poses to the UK’s international reputation and university jobs.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED KINGDOM-EUROPE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240502154128197" style="color:#000;">Youth mobility impasse reveals UK’s divide and rule tactics</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Anne Corbett</div>The United Kingdom’s rejection of the European Union’s youth mobility plan in favour of bilateral discussions with old allies on the continent may be intended to showcase the UK’s status as a powerful sovereign state, but it leaves the education policy sector on the sidelines.</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=20240423080045150" style="color:#000;">Why are non-Anglo scientists not being named in US news?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Hao Peng, Misha Teplitskiy and David Jurgens</div>American science journalism is rife with disparities when it comes to which researchers’ names are mentioned in news stories. As science globalises and is produced by authors from non-Western countries, the way English-language media responds to non-Anglo-named scholars will only grow in importance.</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=20240415185654229" style="color:#000;">Keeping qualifications relevant in an ever-changing world</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Kevin Ebenezer</div>International qualification provider Cambridge has established three global higher education advisory councils which cover its international reach across 160 countries and 10,000 schools. The councils’ aim is to ensure that Cambridge qualifications are adaptable and applicable to an ever-broader spectrum of international 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=20240408150140115" style="color:#000;">TNE offers many solutions, but it has to be done properly</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Fabrizio Trifiro</div>Transnational education, or TNE, is not a quick solution to address revenue shortfalls because of dwindling public funds and international student recruitment at home. Successful TNE, in its different modalities, is a resource-intensive endeavour requiring long-term commitment. And it should be transformational, not only transactional.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SOUTH KOREA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240402121015629" style="color:#000;">How women engineering students navigate barriers in universities</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Minji Kim and Meseret F Hailu</div>While national and institutional initiatives for women in engineering in South Korea have had an impact, more work needs to be done at the ground level in higher education to address the barriers women face in accessing and succeeding in the discipline.</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=20240326101311351" style="color:#000;">There is another way for universities to generate revenue…</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Louise Nicol</div>If universities were funded differently and students were considered an asset not a cost, huge revenue opportunities would open up and universities could avoid the default funding routes of either going cap in hand to government or raising student tuition fees.</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=20240319124348947" style="color:#000;">Teachers don’t need to be perfect, but they do need to care</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nita Temmerman</div>Students don’t expect all teachers to be the same and they don’t expect them to be perfect. But they do want teachers who care about them as students, who care about the learning process and who care about their own self-development as a teacher.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GERMANY</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240317052034734" style="color:#000;">International students’ mixed experience in Germany</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nannette Ripmeester</div>Germany offers a relatively clear-cut pathway to job opportunities, something that is no longer a guarantee for international students in other major study destinations for political reasons. But analysis of surveys of international students’ experience shows both the strengths and weaknesses of the country’s universities.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">LEBANON</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240306093239536" style="color:#000;">Universities are key players in renewal and deserve support</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Benjamin Schmäling</div>The economic and political situation in Lebanon is bleak. However, the resilience of the academic tradition in the country, the strong reputation of its universities, excellent performance in international rankings and continuous creation of new initiatives prove that not all hope is lost.</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=20240226141055526" style="color:#000;">The poorest will be affected most by student loan changes</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Charlotte Booth</div>New research released as part of a longitudinal study in England suggests that those students who will have to make repayments under the new student loans system who would not have before are more likely to be from marginalised groups or in precarious work.</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=20240220134437155" style="color:#000;">Here’s what international students say makes a good lecturer</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Cheryl Yu, Wei Liu, Stephane Waller and Heather McClean</div>Recent research that could inform future professional development suggests that good instructors of international students are able to create a learning environment that includes all students in deep learning without giving the impression that they are trying to accommodate certain groups.</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=20240213101609325" style="color:#000;">How AI can help students through the cost-of-living crisis</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Leo Hanna</div>A high percentage of students juggling work commitments alongside their studies marks a significant shift in the traditional university experience. Artificial intelligence stands poised to revolutionise this dynamic by offering innovative solutions to streamline tasks, optimise time management and enhance student outcomes.</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=20240206095736462" style="color:#000;">Academic accreditation: A continuous process of quality assurance</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nita Temmerman</div>Academic accreditation is about promoting and upholding the integrity of the academic profession and protecting the reputation of the higher education sector and its students and employers. Universities seeking accreditation need to ensure they are constantly reviewing their quality assurance processes.</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=20240131073123222" style="color:#000;">Using race in university admissions: we still have options</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Raquel Muñiz and Andrés Castro Samayoa</div>Proclamations that ‘affirmative action is over’ in the United States betray the reality that there are, in fact, paths forward to ensure students’ racial identities are not erased from colleges’ admissions processes nor institutions’ broader efforts to achieve racial equality and diversity.</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=20240123095419557" style="color:#000;">What AI means for higher education teaching: hype vs reality</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nicolaas Matthijs</div>As the higher education sector embraces the potential of artificial intelligence, it is crucial to acknowledge the pivotal role of educators. AI is not replacing educators; they are being empowered to enhance learning. True potential lies in the synergy between human and artificial intelligence.</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=20240116123834708" style="color:#000;">New platform fills gap in comparable data about HE systems</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Victoria Galán-Muros and Mathias Bouckaert</div>A new Higher Education Policy Observatory collects and standardises information on national higher education systems in nearly 150 countries in a freely accessible platform that allows researchers, leaders and policy-makers to compare different higher education systems, and develop or improve their own.</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=20240109104411803" style="color:#000;">Digging for dirt: The wrong way to tackle research integrity</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Till Bruckner</div>Singling out academics such as former Harvard president Claudine Gay in a politically motivated forensic scrutiny of their research records has a chilling effect on academic freedom and it detracts from efforts to address the more important systemic issues in research integrity.</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=20231211141633168" style="color:#000;">Education should look to the way artists are embracing AI</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Lucy Gill-Simmen</div>Education should learn from artists who have embraced artificial intelligence rather than seeing it purely in negative terms. AI has the potential to make a major impact on many sectors of society over the coming decades. Some of these effects may be positive, others less so.</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=20231208234200332" style="color:#000;">A nightmare for higher education before Christmas</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Louise Nicol</div>International students are coming under fire in the Global North as governments look to tighten immigration rules and despite the value they bring to higher education and society. Universities need to rethink how they respond.</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=20231201084257824" style="color:#000;">The downside to women academics’ ethical publishing choices</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">W Benedikt Schmal</div>A recent study suggests that female researchers make different publishing choices to their male counterparts, consciously rejecting publishers they consider unfair or exploitative. While rejecting journal prestige may be good for increasing marketplace competition, it could also come with career penalties.</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=20231123144027674" style="color:#000;">AI can help to flag students struggling with mental health</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Jamie Pitchforth</div>Timely access to effective mental health services for students has never been more important. With the assistance of artificial intelligence and data intelligence, it is now possible to pre-emptively flag when an individual might be experiencing mental distress and offer the support needed.</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=20231114085104212" style="color:#000;">Customer-centric HE starts with knowing what students want</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nita Temmerman</div>It is vital for higher education institutions to consider how they can deliver the quality, diversity and flexibility students increasingly value and desire. The hard part, of course, is translating these discussions into tangible implementation and seeing genuine positive progress occur.</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=2023110714221376" style="color:#000;">What is the purpose of international higher education?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Omolabake Fakunle</div>International higher education is traditionally driven by a Western agenda. Growing scholarly discussions around neo-colonisation, post-colonialism and decolonisation in relation to higher education internationalisation are promising contributions towards reimagining the field – but change is barely perceptible.</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=20231031135340617" style="color:#000;">Mental health: Tips to help international students flourish</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Alison Baines</div>Putting international students at the core of immigration discussions, and reducing or removing their right to relocate with partners or children increase concerns for students’ mental health. By recognising the specific concerns of international students, universities can help to create a more supportive environment.</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=20231023164318422" style="color:#000;">The 2023 Nobel prizes – What they mean for higher education</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Philip G Altbach and Tessa DeLaquil</div>This year’s winners of Nobel prizes in the sciences highlight the ingredients that help shape the best science, from academic freedom to adequate funding – and that if universities fail to provide these, researchers may be drawn to organisations that provide a home for them outside of academia.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">LATIN AMERICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20231017132008388" style="color:#000;">How systemic biases in academic publishing make us all poor</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Carolina Guzmán Valenzuela</div>When knowledge comes with a price tag, it is locked behind financial barriers and risks transforming academia from a space of intellectual inquiry and public benefit into a marketplace where one’s financial means can dictate the breadth and depth of intellectual engagement.</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=20231013142434886" style="color:#000;">Making the case for student mobility: A question of design</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Neslihan Onder-Ozdemir and Keanen McKinley</div>International student mobility researchers need to ensure that their research not only gets before policy-makers but is read and used. The findings of a survey of international student mobility scholars and practitioners enabled a refined understanding of how effective policy briefs might be designed.</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=20231006112040960" style="color:#000;">Study abroad has big benefits, but is out of reach for many</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Meseret F Hailu</div>An opportunity to take American students on a short-term study course to the United Kingdom, aimed at providing a better understanding of higher education today, highlighted the benefits of study abroad opportunities – for those who have the necessary financial, administrative and legal resources.</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=20230928142257706" style="color:#000;">Law suits against indebted students should be a last resort</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Donelle S Bailey</div>While there is no expectation that American higher education institutions should automatically forgive what is owed to them by students who have dropped out, better attention and care should be given to the financial upheaval created for specific populations in recovering lost revenue.</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=20230906103534803" style="color:#000;">When’s the best time for students to start a business? Now.</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Robert A Phillips</div>With students looking for ways to fund their way through university and with employers keen for graduates with entrepreneurial skills, universities around the world would be wise to increase their support for entrepreneurship education and help to normalise it as a career path.</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=20230913122307687" style="color:#000;">Ticking time bomb of foreign students must be defused with data</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Louise Nicol and Alan Preece</div>Universities in Britain need to get ahead of the politicians when it comes to visa clampdowns by providing the kind of data policy-makers take note of, proving that universities are good and responsible stewards who accept only international students with the requisite skills and intentions.</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=20230906102250508" style="color:#000;">The future of college admissions does not have to be bleak</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">John Anderson</div>A former seasonal application reader urges universities in the United States to pay extra careful attention to admission processes and the way they are communicated to the public, particularly in the wake of the Operation Varsity Blues scandal and the more recent Supreme Court affirmative action ruling.</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=2023082911514629" style="color:#000;">How six decades of solid research added value to HE policy</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Michaela Martin</div>The 60-year history of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning can be traced through several key research programmes that have helped shape higher education, from its burgeoning importance in the post-independence era to today’s calls for greater flexibility and student choice.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED KINGDOM-GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20230822114227159" style="color:#000;">Positioning HE and research: Is it time for a rethink?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Ellen Hazelkorn</div>While the United Kingdom played a critical role in helping to shape global and European higher education, at a time when adherence to internationalisation, collaboration and scientific exchange is so badly needed, the UK appears to have decided to exit the world stage.</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=2023080115424063" style="color:#000;">G20 presidency gives India’s HE an opportunity to shine</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Pankaj Mittal and Diya Dutt</div>India has emerged as the second largest education ecosystem in the world after China. The country’s ability to deliver good quality education at a reasonable cost puts it in a unique position to become a destination country for internationalisation in the near 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=20230725153340204" style="color:#000;">A renewed HE vision needs a focus on quality and inclusion</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Libing Wang</div>Future higher education systems around the world will need to proactively prepare for changes in demand as a result of variable demographic trends. This calls for a fresh approach that prioritises quality, relevance, equity and inclusion, supported of course by technological advancement.</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=20230719172634294" style="color:#000;">Affirmative action ruling unlikely to end at universities</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Tamara Box</div>It is hard to find any winners in the United States Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action at universities, which, in addition to changing the face of higher education, is likely to herald significant repercussions for industry and society as a whole.</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=20230710212521782" style="color:#000;">QS’ global university rankings revamp is a leap backwards</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Alan Ruby and Jie Lin</div>The QS rankings system’s first ever basic formula overhaul adds a new alumni impact measure to its graduate employment rate metric, which reinforces the idea that great universities are for the few, preferably male, candidates who will make their careers in business and politics.</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=20230704105601272" style="color:#000;">How pandemic-related pressure affected online learning</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Elif Manuoglu</div>Students struggled with online learning during the pandemic. This was not only because of practical issues and the suddenness of the transition from face-to-face classes, but also due to the knock-on impact of anxiety about COVID itself, which affected them and their teachers.</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=20230628142545495" style="color:#000;">Should the UK encourage more students to study through TNE?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Cheryl Yu</div>UK student outbound mobility should be regarded as a positive for the United Kingdom and its partners, not just economically and educationally, but also reputationally. Transnational education or TNE development could help to promote this and aid universities in diversifying their student population and enriching the learning experience.</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=20230619114250814" style="color:#000;">The academic promotion process: an eye-opening experience</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nita Temmerman</div>It is both a privilege and a responsibility to play a role in the validation of an academic’s submission for promotion. It is therefore vital that the institution concerned provides clear guidance to external international expert referees about the process at that institution.</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=20230615004205670" style="color:#000;">A new contribution to the debate on internationalisation</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans, Fiona Hunter and Hans de Wit</div>A new book which marks the 10th anniversary of the Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation in Italy opens up opportunities for a meaningful conversation on the role of internationalisation of higher education as an intrinsic part of university practice and responsibility towards society.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">VIETNAM-UNITED KINGDOM</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=202306051647516" style="color:#000;">Is Vietnam the next TNE destination for UK universities?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Cheryl Yu</div>Compared to other countries in Asia, such as China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Singapore, which represent a rather saturated market for United Kingdom transnational education or TNE, Vietnam represents a growing opportunity for the UK due to its increasing GDP and limited local education provision.</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=20230528103903360" style="color:#000;">The remarkable efficacy of organisational change networks</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Steven P Dandaneau</div>Organisational change networks – including those that weave in and between colleges and universities of all types – exemplify the idea that so-called ‘weak’ connections between individuals who share a commitment to the transformative potential of undergraduate education can be major drivers of organisational change.</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=20230523151511911" style="color:#000;">Doctoral education: preparing students for diverse careers</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Cláudia S Sarrico</div>Given the growth in doctoral graduate numbers, not all graduates can be accommodated in traditional academic or research careers. Doctoral education needs to prepare future graduates for diverse options, not only in higher education but in business, government, the non-profit sector and self-employment.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20230516113927322" style="color:#000;">Many students are craving more connection with their peers</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Jack Goodman</div>Research shows that helping students, particularly first years, to feel a sense of belonging in the university environment sets them up for learning, persistence, success and well-being over the course of their degree – to the benefit of both the students and the institution.</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=20230509120343196" style="color:#000;">PhDs alone cannot solve Africa’s developmental challenges</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Eric Fredua-Kwarteng</div>PhDs are not necessarily a panacea for developmental challenges, but they can make valuable contributions to African society and economies, provided their education and training are designed and implemented to achieve expected outcomes – and governments are ready to create opportunities to utilise them.</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=2023050311401541" style="color:#000;">Building cyber resilience in HE needs everyone’s commitment</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Dionne Barlow</div>Building cyber resilience in higher education institutions is a process that starts with a review of existing systems, requires investment in the areas that need it most, and can be maintained only through continued review and an ongoing commitment to cybersecurity from everybody.</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=20230418103823214" style="color:#000;">If university students are not taught to think, we all lose</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nita Temmerman</div>Pressure on university instructors to ‘dumb down’ what they do in order to ensure a certain percentage of students complete their degrees instead of producing creative graduates who can think for themselves and solve problems comes with high costs for all stakeholders.</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=20230412130513149" style="color:#000;">Africa needs more PhDs, but they must be of high quality</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Eric Fredua-Kwarteng</div>The World Bank has recommended that Africa produce as many as 100,000 PhD students in a decade. But that does not mean standard processes should be sacrificed on the altar of quantity. Africa needs quality PhDs, which takes time, effort, expertise, commitment and resources.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">BELARUS</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20230329141247104" style="color:#000;">Inside and outside their country, students are struggling</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Aliaksei Piatrenka</div>A report from the Belarusian Students’ Association, highlighting the persecution of students within Belarus and the discrimination they suffer beyond, urges the Czech Republic to resume issuing study visas for Belarusians and the European Commission to increase support for students fleeing persecution.</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=20230324075424285" style="color:#000;">Capitalising on COVID: Making research easier to access</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Rhodri Jackson</div>Academic research as a source of information is still trusted by a large proportion of people, which makes it vital that academic publishers around the world look at how to champion open research and empower experts to share their knowledge and perspectives.</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=20230315090403185" style="color:#000;">Race to publish: Academics are forced to resort to ‘tricks’</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Hamid Ali Khan</div>Short-term changes in research and publishing-related policies in universities and long-term changes to the education system more broadly are needed in Pakistan to produce research that not only has the promise of global impact but is connected to and usable by communities.</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=20230307071854754" style="color:#000;">Co-creation: the future of higher education policy-making?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Dara Melnyk and Egor Yablokov</div>Co-creation is one of the main megatrends across industries. It makes sense that a product, policy or framework is developed in collaboration with stakeholders and tailored to their context. So how can universities and policy-makers work together to co-create innovative higher education policy?</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=20230304073028552" style="color:#000;">International education versus immigration hokey cokey</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Louise Nicol</div>Countries around the world are promising post-study rights in a bid to boost international student numbers, but without proper jobs it will end in anger and disappointment. Instead, they should pivot towards supporting international students transition successfully to their early careers back home.</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=20230224100857341" style="color:#000;">We need graduates who can take new approaches to problems</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nita Temmerman</div>Study programmes that expect memorisation of facts and the passing of high-stakes exams are unlikely to set graduates up for success in the future work environment. So why do some lecturers still resist the call for education that encourages critical and creative thinking?</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=20230215101122714" style="color:#000;">How to boost the employability outcomes of Chinese students?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Minjie Tang</div>To boost Chinese students’ employability, universities in Australia and Chinese students need to do more to address cultural misunderstanding and encourage the creation of effective social networks. Students could do with support in applying for visas, and should improve their English and career management skills.</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=20230210110849747" style="color:#000;">First-year dropout: The role of student self-evaluation</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Italo Testa, Silvia Galano and Oreste Tarallo</div>Helping university instructors to become more aware of the metacognitive biases of first-year students when it comes to students’ evaluation of their own academic performance is crucial to the effective implementation of suitable systematic pedagogical approaches that may lower first-year dropout rates.</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=20230131142344597" style="color:#000;">What kind of society do we want our universities to serve?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Marc Spooner</div>The introduction of performance-based funding at universities in some Canadian provinces and other current trends are cause for alarm, necessitating an urgent debate about what kind of society we hope to maintain, foster and create – and how universities can best serve that society.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">LATIN AMERICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2023012714330595" style="color:#000;">Quality assurance must go beyond bureaucratic compliance</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Carlos Olivares</div>Quality assurance in the last 25 years has contributed relatively little to solving the structural problems of the higher education sector and the challenges facing the evolution of the sector in Latin America, as evidenced by its minimal competitive participation at the global level.</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=20230117141832985" style="color:#000;">Tuition fees: Finding a balance between quality and access</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Thong Minh Trinh</div>According to a university president, the current ceiling on tuition fees in Vietnam is too low compared to the expectations for and requirements of educational institutions – a claim supported by research which shows that students will pay extra if the quality of education is sound.</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=20230107163134406" style="color:#000;">2023: Hopes and fears for UK international education</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Louise Nicol</div>United Kingdom international higher education faces strong challenges in the new year from a government that appears keen to reduce dependant visas and cap student numbers, despite the economic benefits international students bring, to a housing crisis that deprives students of a first-class experience and damages the reputation of UK universities.</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=20221213091856663" style="color:#000;">Quality assurance and innovation: A delicate balancing act</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nita Temmerman</div>Higher education institutions, often accused of not keeping pace with society, can find themselves in a balancing act when it comes to meeting quality assurance standards while also leading innovative teaching-learning practices, advancing novel research and responding to change in a diverse environment.</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=20221206070120932" style="color:#000;">By harnessing digital technologies, we safeguard education</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Michael Agyemang Adarkwah</div>The return to ‘education as normal’ after COVID-19 should not stop higher education institutions in developing countries from being inventive because harnessing digital technologies can build education systems that are able to withstand unforeseen events and obstacles to progressive education and lifelong learning.</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=20221129123122420" style="color:#000;">How to stay connected with the world without destroying it</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Simon Guy</div>The higher education sector, like many others, faces an existential challenge to respond to the climate emergency, but by sharing solutions in the spirit of open learning and collaboration – activities at which universities excel – we can lead the way in responding.</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=20221122120549933" style="color:#000;">Community service and the problem of undefined obligations</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Eric Fredua-Kwarteng</div>Community service is a critical tool for decolonising African universities and can turn universities into real partners for development, but until the obligations of this key mission are enshrined in policy or law and adequate funding is provided, it will remain largely voluntary.</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=20221115104218802" style="color:#000;">Ending inequity: The embrace of humanity is non-negotiable</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Fay Patel</div>Beyond recruitment drives, equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives should enrich learners and learning, monitor quality education design, indigenise curricula, inspire leadership, assess academic impact and foster glocal community development – and there are examples from across the world to illustrate their multiple applications.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UNITED KINGDOM-GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20221112062521401" style="color:#000;">Rethinking how technology innovations can support students</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Iain Sloan</div>Institutions of higher education have a wealth of student data they can use to support students through their individual higher education journey by offering greater flexibility in their study patterns and being more proactive in identifying difficulties students may have along the way.</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=20221104101058465" style="color:#000;">Opportunities for internationalisation of medical education</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Anette Wu</div>The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the dangers of healthcare nationalism, which limits us in improving the health of all people and prevents us from acting together as a global medical community committed to working towards Sustainable Development Goal 3 on good health and well-being.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SAUDI ARABIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20221026152442219" style="color:#000;">New visas send welcoming message to the world’s top talent</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Ruwayshid Alruwaili</div>The Saudi government’s recent unveiling of new educational visas for international students aims to send a message that the Kingdom is a welcoming and emerging environment for research and study and restates the government’s commitment to the country’s Vision 2030 educational ambitions.</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=20221019114926402" style="color:#000;">The importance of reflection for students – and teachers</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Jonathan J Felix</div>Developing the capacity for reflection is one of the ways in which higher education prepares learners for life and work in the 21st century by fostering creativity. As much a virtue as a skill, reflection can also challenge teachers to re-evaluate academic practices.</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=20221011141807877" style="color:#000;">Governments can help universities to achieve their vision</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Eric Fredua-Kwarteng and Michael Antwi</div>The responsibility for designing and implementing a vision for African universities that aspire to be effective, relevant and responsive to the development needs of society and the economy does not rest on vice-chancellors alone, but should be shared between university leaders and governments.</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=20221006150306665" style="color:#000;">Looking back and ahead: How India can meet its R&D targets</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Aqueel Khan</div>India’s achievements in science and technology are impressive, but they could have been even better if greater attention had been paid to improving the quality of the country’s research and if more public and private sector investment in research and development had been forthcoming.</div> <div style="width:715px;height:0px"></div></td> <td style="width:261px;margin-left:10px;border-left:1px solid #999;padding-left:10px" valign="top"> <div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=uaeuoct2024"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=uaeuoct2024" style="" alt="uaeuoct2024"></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=nafsanov2024"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=nafsanov2024" style="" alt="nafsanov2024"></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=uukconfnov2024"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=uukconfnov2024" style="" alt="uukconfnov2024"></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=stelunijul2023"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=stelunijul2023" style="width:250px;height:400px" alt="stelunijul2023"></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=abetsympoct2024"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=abetsympoct2024" style="" alt="abetsympoct2024"></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=gulfconftlfnov2024"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=gulfconftlfnov2024" style="" alt="gulfconftlfnov2024"></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=hetl"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=hetl" style="width:250px;height:250px" alt="hetl"></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=hetl"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=hetl" style="width:250px;height:250px" alt="hetl"></a></div></div> <div></div> <div></div> </td> </tr></table> </div> <div id="footer" class="wdiv p8px" style="font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background:#000;color:#fff"> <a href="page.php?page=UW_Main">Global</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Africa_Edition">Africa</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Asia_Hub">Asia</a> | <a href="page.php?page=SDGs_Hub">SDGs</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Edtech_AI_Hub">Edtech/AI</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Commentary_Hub">Commentary</a> | <a href="topic-page.php?topic=World_Blog">World Blog</a> | <a href="special-report.php?publication=global">Special Reports</a> | <a href="page.php?page=subscribe">Subscribe</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Careers_at_UWN">Careers at UWN</a> <br> <a href="bookmarks.php">Bookmarks</a> | <a href="page.php?page=About_Us">About Us</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Advertising">Advertise</a> | <a href="page.php?page=sponsor-partner-profservices">Sponsorship</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Terms_Conditions">Terms & Conditions</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Contact_Us_Intro">Contact</a> | <a href="https://www.universityworldnews.com/fb/">Facebook</a> | <a href="version-force.php?ver=mobile">Mobile Site</a> </div> <div id="footer" class="wdiv p8px" style="font-size:12px;background:#000;color:#fff;border-top:1px solid #444">Copyright 2024 University World News</div> </div> </div> </div> <script> </script> <script> var bb = new BankersBox(1); 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