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Luescher</div>Several regional initiatives allied with increasing digitalisation have led to greater student and graduate mobility and boosted knowledge production across east Africa, says Dr James Jowi, principal education officer at the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat.</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=20250221114146919" style="color:#000;">How the SDGs are redefining internationalisation in HE</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>As challenges become more interconnected, universities are uniquely placed to link research with practical solutions, connect local initiatives to global frameworks, and strengthen ties between academia and society. The Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs provide a framework for universities to advance internationalisation through partnerships that drive real change.</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=20250216204008380" style="color:#000;">Africa cannot afford ‘the old ways of thinking’ anymore</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Mark Paterson and Thierry M Luescher</div>Contestation over the nature of knowledge is mounting as new universities and think tanks challenge traditional approaches to higher education across Africa, says Professor Tade Aina, senior director of the higher education and research in Africa programme at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.</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=20250207090353961" style="color:#000;">The AI cold war, tech disruption and the role of universities</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">James Yoonil Auh</div>DeepSeek’s meteoric, interdisciplinary success starkly highlights inefficiencies embedded within many American universities. While deep specialisation has been the engine behind countless scientific breakthroughs, it is increasingly misaligned with the cross-disciplinary nature of contemporary AI research.</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=20250128135518163" style="color:#000;">Should the Year of Education become a Decade of Education?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>At the beginning of 2024, African leaders adopted education as a continental priority under the theme, ‘Educate an African fit for the 21st century: Building resilient education systems for increased access to inclusive, lifelong, quality, and relevant learning in Africa’.</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=20250128071056121" style="color:#000;">Indigenous science’s lessons on sustainable development</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nathan M Greenfield</div>Incorporating Indigenous knowledges into Education for Sustainable Development does not mean simply re-presenting ideas of First Nations’ stories or peoples in curricula; it’s about involving Indigenous peoples in university education to ensure their knowledge is respected and research is useful to Indigenous communities.</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=20250128070725969" style="color:#000;">Cultivating research leaders for a sustainable Future Africa</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>Africa’s scientific landscape faces twin challenges: low research output and limited participation in global scientific discourse. This hinders the continent’s ability to respond to its ‘wicked problems’ and contribute to global knowledge and sustainability. The pioneering Future Africa initiative is taking up the challenge.</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=20250127125348175" style="color:#000;">Sustainability and the OECD ‘Trends Shaping Education 2025’</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Keith Nuthall and Brenda Dionisi</div>The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s triennial assessment of the direction of all education has told universities that they must anticipate change in an uncertain world being transformed by generative AI, as they consider how to promote the global goal 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=2025012507442792" style="color:#000;">Trends in AI for student assessment – A roller coaster ride</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Karen MacGregor</div>The greatest challenges facing universities and educators in using generative AI for student assessment are the sheer speed at which the higher education sector is evolving and an exponential increase in the capabilities of AI tools, a <I>University World News</I>-ABET webinar heard this week.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">NIGERIA-BELGIUM</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20250114123421956" style="color:#000;">Nigerian postdoc in Belgium is a warrior for maternal health</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>Dr Josephine Aikpitanyi is on a mission to empower African women to take control of their own health. This Nigerian postdoctoral researcher at UCLouvain in Belgium is challenging traditional norms and revolutionising the way we think about maternal healthcare by exploring the link between personality traits and healthcare choices.</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=20250115065537857" style="color:#000;">Science journal a ‘must read’ in South Africa since 1905</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wieland Gevers</div>A scholarly journal that is national and multidisciplinary is key to bridging not only the divides between disciplines, but also those between policy-makers and policy implementers, on the one hand, and scientists and scholars, on the other. The <I>South African Journal of Science</I> has achieved this in different ways during its 120-year history.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SYRIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241217180116657" style="color:#000;">How male students managed to avoid serving in Assad’s army</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>Male Syrian university students managed to escape compulsory military service in Bashar al-Assad’s army through a number of strategies, including ‘deliberate failing’ of their courses or by travelling abroad, a new investigation published six days after the end of Assad’s rule has revealed.</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=20241214062350867" style="color:#000;">Council helps at-risk academics find new intellectual homes</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nathan M Greenfield</div>The Council for At-Risk Academics was founded in 1933 to help scientists, professors and researchers flee Nazi Germany. Today it serves as a lifeline for at-risk academics from all countries, including Ukraine – academics who seek not only safety but the right to keep working.</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=20241206112541137" style="color:#000;">Research helps rice farmers see the value of going green</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Kalinga Seneviratne</div>Several universities in rice-producing countries are working with students, farmers and communities to help them switch to growing ‘greener’ or more environmentally friendly varieties and to employ more sustainable farming methods that use only organic fertilisers. But not everyone is on board.</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=20241201170012769" style="color:#000;">Cut out the jargon when communicating basic science – Report</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>A groundbreaking report provides valuable guidance in a field that turns out to have been substantially overlooked – communicating fundamental research. It marks the culmination of a five-year study between several international collaborators in the field.</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=20241121113741915" style="color:#000;">Green technology training could curb unemployment in Africa</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Elias Ngalame</div>African climate stakeholders attending COP29 have called for more green technology training in specialised higher education institutions as a transformative opportunity to curb surging unemployment and empower African graduates to take over the relay in the climate change drive.</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=20241117143548493" style="color:#000;">Experts apply science to help resolve transboundary dispute</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Alberto Leny</div>For thousands of years, the Nile River has been a vital resource for millions of north-east Africans who rely on it for irrigation, drinking water, fishing and hydroelectric power. The Nile River flows over 6,650km before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea. With the Nile being shared by 11 countries, disputes persist.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CANADA-UNITED STATES</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241113173617714" style="color:#000;">How games can teach students more history than lectures</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nathan M Greenfield</div>Professors say that using games to teach history produces consistently higher levels of engagement among students and greater commitment to reading, including primary sources. Students say they gain a deeper and more sympathetic understanding of the motivations of historical figures and movements.</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=20241111072329266" style="color:#000;">Student leaders speak about their ‘University of the Future’</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>As the African continent marks Africa Universities’ Day on 12 November, <I>University World News</I> asked student leaders across the continent to envisage the ‘University of the Future’. Whether from the Gambia, Namibia or Kenya, the leaders touched on similar themes, sending strong messages to the higher education sector and governments.</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=20241105082329879" style="color:#000;">As green jobs demand rises, (some) universities make changes</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Kalinga Seneviratne</div>Singapore, the Philippines, India and Thailand are among countries in Asia that are taking seriously the call from international agencies and industry for more graduates with ‘green job’ skills by revising their higher education curricula and changing the nature of academic learning.</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=20241105081146488" style="color:#000;">Engineering the way out of global sustainability crises</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Karen MacGregor</div>‘Green skills’ are the skills required in many people’s day-to-day work and are offered by universities across many disciplines. But they are rarely taught in engineering, a profession crucial to achieving global sustainability. Engineering for One Planet tackles this problem with curriculum guides.</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=20241105093045553" style="color:#000;">Universities pressured to shift curricula as green jobs grow</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Keith Nuthall</div>As markets shift towards jobs that promote sustainability, prompted by concerns about limiting potential runaway climate change, higher education institutions the world over are being encouraged to more fully integrate sustainability skills into curricula in order to prepare students for green employment.</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=20241105093617192" style="color:#000;">Are universities falling behind in the ‘green skills’ race?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Karen MacGregor</div>There are major skills-related disruptions ahead for higher education, as the sector comes under governmental and labour market pressure to produce graduates – including micro-credential graduates – with skills needed for a ‘greening’ world, says Professor Patrick Paul Walsh, director of the United Nations SDG Academy.</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=20241030150039520" style="color:#000;">Sir Edward Byrne: Leading universities across continents</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Brendan O’Malley</div>Sir Edward Byrne has led three top universities on three continents. He talks to <I>University World News</I> about how being president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology compares to his experiences leading Monash University in Australia and King’s College London in the United Kingdom.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">THAILAND</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241101074637190" style="color:#000;">University partners with municipality to lower disaster risk</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Kalinga Seneviratne</div>A provincial university in the north-east of Thailand is at the forefront of a campaign using digital technologies to create ‘smart cities’ in partnership with local municipalities and central government agencies, and to build resources and tools that can be used in mitigating natural disasters.</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=20241031125551151" style="color:#000;">‘Oscars for Nerds’: Nobel insider reveals prize secrets</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>What does it take to win a Nobel Prize? What happens in the committees that decide who receives such a coveted honour? These and other questions were answered with flair at a recent lecture delivered as part of the Nobel in Africa series.</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=20241031123220298" style="color:#000;">New insights into status of indexed multilingual journals</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>A study finding that only about 17% of the library and information science journals indexed by Scopus are multilingual offers insights into gaps in our understanding of non-English library and information science journals indexed in global databases and mulls the possibility of an alternative multilingual index.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SOUTH AFRICA-GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241028152505104" style="color:#000;">Big four’s policy shifts drive global student interest to SA</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Maina Waruru</div>Africa’s biggest international study destination, South Africa, could gain from international students who now face additional barriers to studying in the big four destinations of the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Australia due to policy changes. The country’s larger metropolitan universities would benefit the most.</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=20241023192101323" style="color:#000;">Nobel in Africa symposium spotlights cardiovascular medicine</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>A Nobel symposium held in South Africa this week has focused on cardiovascular medicine on the continent, while simultaneously showcasing the crucial contributions of African scientists in this important field. In 2022, the first-ever Nobel Symposium outside of Scandinavia was hosted at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study.</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=20241011233352683" style="color:#000;">IAUP report examines the challenges women face as HE leaders</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nathan M Greenfield and Brendan O’Malley</div>A recently released publication by the International Association of University Presidents, as part of its Women’s Leadership Initiative, presents 10 personal stories about the challenges faced by senior women leaders in academia, including ‘imposter syndrome’, and highlights the value of having a robust mentor or coach.</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=20241008214041774" style="color:#000;">New IAUP president faces some new, some older challenges</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nathan M Greenfield</div>Both the outgoing and incoming presidents of the International Association of University Presidents will have assumed their positions in a time of different but, at the time, unimaginable challenges. We examine the legacy of the former president and the unconventional vision of the incoming leader.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UKRAINE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=202410042216204" style="color:#000;">Ukrainian scholars track war-related ecocide in real time</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nathan M Greenfield</div>In the days after the full-scale Russian attack on Ukraine in February 2022, as dark smoke rose steadily from collapsed buildings and burning oil depots, Ukraine’s ecological scientists were already totalling up what they knew was an ecological crisis in the making.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">NIGERIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240925142214606" style="color:#000;">Boko Haram kept them from school; now they are students</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Jesusegun Alagbe</div>Some of the children who survived abductions by the Boko Haram terrorist group in Nigeria and have been released have gone on to university study, despite indoctrination attempts by the group which forbids Western education. Despite their past traumas, these students are determined to succeed.</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=20240920144632455" style="color:#000;">Global consortium launches AI in education research project</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Keith Nuthall</div>A multi-partner research consortium will conduct global studies into how artificial intelligence can best be deployed within higher education, uniting expert researchers from the Global North and South with the aim of harnessing AI in the service of quality education for all.</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=20240917080112391" style="color:#000;">Sustainability – How are African universities faring?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wachira Kigotho</div>Although there are pockets of institutional excellence when it comes to the incorporation of sustainability education into African universities’ teaching, research and outreach activities, experts say there is some way to go before sustainability achieves its rightful place in African higher education.</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=20240913150647134" style="color:#000;">Victoria broadens climate focus to embrace sustainability</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Keith Nuthall and Andreia Nogueira</div>The University of Victoria in Canada’s temperate rain forest zone, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, has blazed a global trail in integrating education for sustainable development with an expansive range of courses and activities, deepening its sustainability research and learning impact.</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=20240917075420809" style="color:#000;">Three decades of sustainability at Leuphana University Lüneburg</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Karen MacGregor</div>Last year Leuphana University Lüneburg won Germany’s most prestigious award for sustainability in educational institutions. The university in northern Germany has been on a three-decade sustainability journey, embracing a ‘whole institution’ approach and infusing sustainability into all aspects of its teaching, research and operation.</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=20240913151009383" style="color:#000;">New fellows partnership to train an army of climate warriors</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Swaha Sahoo</div>AshokaX, a lifelong learning initiative from Ashoka University, recently partnered with the global Environmental Defense Fund to lead the Climate Corps Fellowship in India. The fellowship aims to nurture an army of climate warriors and leverage catalytic action towards tackling climate issues.</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=20240913151327270" style="color:#000;">The Okayama ESD model, embedded in tradition and ‘kominkan’</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Suvendrini Kakuchi</div>Professor Atsufumi Yokoi, vice-president for global engagement at Okayama University in Japan, isn’t going to stop talking about the criticality of incorporating education for sustainable development into higher education. He drives the Okayama ESD model that is deeply embedded in regional traditions.</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=20240916104840636" style="color:#000;">Education for sustainable development’s global learning space</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Karen MacGregor</div>With 190 Regional Centres of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development in more than 65 countries across the world, the Global RCE Network headquartered at the United Nations University in Japan could be the ultimate ‘learning organisation’ in the realm 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=20240910122019920" style="color:#000;">Pope’s letter offers surprise ode to humanities in education</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nathan M Greenfield</div>The publication of a letter from the Pope on the value of literature as part of one’s path to ‘personal maturity’ has been welcomed by some academics as an unexpected invitation to reflect on the importance of literature and humanities in 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=20240905145126529" style="color:#000;">Study provides evidence of AI’s alarming dialect prejudice</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nathan M Greenfield</div>A new study shows that large language models generate ‘covertly’ racial decisions about people based on dialect and are significantly more likely to suggest that speakers of African-American English be given less-prestigious jobs, be convicted of crimes, or be sentenced to death.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GHANA-NIGERIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240826193323707" style="color:#000;">Blended learning programme changed their lives, students say</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>An assessment of a three-year blended learning programme implemented in West Africa by the Association of Commonwealth Universities has established that there is a need to adopt blended-learning thresholds and accreditation models distinct from traditional teaching programmes.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GHANA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240826174025538" style="color:#000;">SDGs: Students positive about HE, doubt poverty will be erased</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Gilbert Nakweya</div>University students in Ghana are optimistic that the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, on quality education, gender equality and clean water will be achieved by 2030, but are less optimistic about poverty and hunger.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA-GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240820103148834" style="color:#000;">Ngugi wa Thiong’o on language empires, how to dismantle them</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wachira Kigotho</div>Kenyan academic and author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, in a public lecture hosted by the Indigenous Language Media in Africa at North-West University in South Africa, has spoken about the enslavement through colonial languages, resistance to coloniality, and multilingualism as the oxygen of all cultures.</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=20240730102719960" style="color:#000;">Sustainability survey shows need to engage (all) faculty</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Karen MacGregor</div>Engagement in sustainability among academics worldwide is being challenged by lack of strategic coordination in the higher education sector, too little training and a “critical need for tailored strategies” that target different profiles of academics in different ways, an international survey has found.</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=20240801155408965" style="color:#000;">TASK™ – Doing the job of assessing sustainability knowledge</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Karen MacGregor</div>Eighteen months after being piloted globally, TASK™ – a psychometric test of sustainability knowledge targeting the higher education sector – has been taken by more than 17,000 students and adopted by 60 universities worldwide. Some use it to track students’ progress in learning about 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=20240801144907374" style="color:#000;">UN unveils tool to track universities’ SDGs performance</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Laura Syrett</div>In response to a growing interest in sustainability among universities and colleges worldwide, UNESCO has developed a free, online and open resource tool that measures whether an institution is contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, it has chosen to prioritise.</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=20240801075307537" style="color:#000;">Raising the voice of HE on the global sustainability stage</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Karen MacGregor</div>Rankings of university sustainability practices and their impact have been “rocket fuel” for institutions that participate, says Professor Charles Hopkins, UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education Towards Sustainability. He was at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">ZIMBABWE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240729143420954" style="color:#000;">Students use mapping tools to help solve social issues</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>Zimbabwean Letwin Pondo, a surveying and geomatics student at the Midlands State University in Zimbabwe, has gathered a team of students who are working on challenges girls and women face by using open-source mapping tools and technologies, and identifying key factors that contribute to social issues.</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=20240726131927627" style="color:#000;">A university prison programme creating hope and purpose</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nathan M Greenfield</div>A university prison initiative based at Tufts University that is making it possible for incarcerated individuals to earn a degree is proving what is already known through research: that education is the one thing that ‘absolutely and radically’ reduces the incidence of recidivism.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">NIGERIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024071614033051" style="color:#000;">Academics plead for visa discrimination to be addressed</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Jesusegun Alagbe</div>The effort, time and money that researchers in Africa have to invest in visa applications to travel to conferences and network with their peers in the Global North are substantial. Despite some assistance, more has to be done to address the obstacles they face.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SRI LANKA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240718125912351" style="color:#000;">Ban on foreign research boats is bad for research – Experts</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Dinesh De Alwis</div>Sri Lanka’s ongoing moratorium on foreign research vessels has restricted the ability of the country’s universities to engage in collaborative research with foreign institutions and hindered access to advanced technology and funding opportunities critical for marine science research, according to experts.</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=20240618192529814" style="color:#000;">Does increase in postdoc fellows indicate market saturation?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>Postdoctoral fellows form a crucial, yet often overlooked, segment of South Africa’s academic workforce. Not much is known about their demographics, career trajectories, working conditions, or their aspirations. A new study sheds light on the challenges they face.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CAMEROON-FRANCE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240716211931452" style="color:#000;">Digitisation will improve access archival researchers need</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Elias Ngalame</div>Researchers and academics in Africa say it is challenging to retrieve information to enrich their academic work because archive preservation systems at most institutions across the continent are poor. They are calling for the digitisation of the African archival ecosystems to ease research work and obtain quality service results.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">ZIMBABWE-AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240527120740665" style="color:#000;">Archaeologists: Much to offer, but they are undervalued</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>Zimbabwean archaeologist Professor Shadreck Chirikure says archaeological data can be exploited to solve climate change, and that Africa holds some of the most significant archaeological sites in the world. But Africans are not behind the signature research, which calls for investment and transformation of the curriculum.</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=20240603105105571" style="color:#000;">Navigating a foreign land: Obstacles confronting black students</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Andrea Teagle</div>In South Africa, where universities remain heavily influenced by Western educational models, black students’ backgrounds significantly influence their chances of graduation. Specifically, factors like home language, economic background, and experiences of racism and sexism critically affect whether students can integrate socially and academically.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">NIGERIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240618084512481" style="color:#000;">What pushes female university students towards sex work?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Abdulwaheed Sofiullahi</div>Sex work among female students in universities nationwide seems to be on the increase in Nigeria, leading to unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections and substance abuse. Often blamed on financial need, in particular in the current economic crisis, studies show complex socio-economic factors driving the phenomenon.</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=20240627150036640" style="color:#000;">Faith-based universities: Stability in a fragmented nation?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nathan M Greenfield</div>The inaugural meeting of the American Council on Education’s Commission on Faith-based Colleges and Universities highlighted a collective mission to address what is perceived as a ‘crisis of meaning’ among young Americans and to provide a context for higher education filled with ‘values, meaning and purpose’.</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=20240619214639616" style="color:#000;">Pioneering pan-African research platform reaches milestone</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>When universities launch new research entities, these often serve mainly their own institutions. However, South Africa’s University of Pretoria broke the mould by establishing its Future Africa initiative that extends far beyond these single institution limitations.</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=20240613122455621" style="color:#000;">DEI values key in quest to equip students to work for peace</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Suvendrini Kakuchi</div>Sophia University is a landmark among Japanese educational institutions in its commitment to the study of ‘human dignity’ to develop people who can work together to create peace. <I>University World News</I> talks to its new UNESCO Chair in Education for Human Dignity, Peace and Sustainability.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">COLOMBIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240616105349915" style="color:#000;">Peace-building: Insights into a university’s ‘special role’</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nathan M Greenfield</div>The role of Pontifical Javeriana University in the Colombian peace process is dialectical: the university has developed programmes to foster peace and rural development, while programmes beyond the university’s gates have altered the university itself, re-casting its internal pedagogy and lines of research.</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=20240616080818633" style="color:#000;">Pearls of wisdom: Expert mentorship for new HE leaders</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Paul Cochrane</div>Newly minted leaders discuss how they have evolved their strategies and thinking on tackling their most pressing challenges through a dialogue with an experienced global mentor, at the International Association of University Presidents seminar on leadership development for new and emerging heads of 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=20240614161347759" style="color:#000;">New advanced AI tool generates personalised research ideas</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>“Advanced artificial intelligence systems with access to millions of research papers could inspire new research ideas that may not be conceived by humans alone,” write researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Germany, in a paper introducing SciMuse, an AI system that generates research ideas.</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=20240529085918781" style="color:#000;">University-industry agri-linkages ‘developing’ and diverse</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wachira Kigotho</div>University-industry linkages in Africa’s agricultural sector hold the future for creating well-paying jobs in various economic sectors, technology transfer and innovative research, but robust measures are needed to manage partnerships, according to a study focusing on eight universities.</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=20240612052458408" style="color:#000;">‘University Elders’ sound the alarm about HE leadership</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>A gathering of ‘University Elders’ at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study earlier this year interrogated the root causes of the leadership and governance crisis in South African higher education. Their recommendations chart a path towards a more stable and effective university system.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">NIGERIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240611131818611" style="color:#000;">Should academic staff members be tested for drug use?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman Akanbi</div>Should academic staff be tested for drug use? This question has been debated in higher education circles in Nigeria since a recent appeal by Professor Muhammad AbdulAziz, the immediate past vice-chancellor of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in Nigeria, that testing lecturers for drugs could better the higher education system.</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=20240609220130236" style="color:#000;">Universities, cities, communities join to solve local problems</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Eve Ruwoko</div>Universities in Africa have been challenged to progress beyond being ‘ivory towers’ to engaging at grassroots level with communities, helping them build resilience and adapt to changes around them, which include climate change, extreme events and pollution.</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=20240607225900449" style="color:#000;">Doctoral forums on research integrity change the course of PhDs</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Maina Waruru</div>Doctoral forums conducted during international conferences on research integrity around the world have been changing the course of research work undertaken by PhD students, and positively influencing the quality of work done as well as its focus.</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=20240606174901782" style="color:#000;">End paper mills menace to protect research integrity</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Maina Waruru</div>The research community around the world needs to come together and pool both material and intellectual resources to fight the growing menace of research paper mills, in order to protect the integrity and value of research, the World Conference on Research Integrity heard this week.</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=20240606132650214" style="color:#000;">Developments and challenges around AI and research integrity</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Karen MacGregor</div>Divisions created between academic and research ethics are largely artificial and should be dismantled. Academia needs to work collectively and urgently to integrate academic and research integrity with AI, global ethics expert Professor Sarah Elaine Eaton told the 2024 World Conference on 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=20240608063533835" style="color:#000;">Integrity helps translate research into trustworthy innovation</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Karen MacGregor</div>Bold expansion of a global research integrity framework to encompass industry and policy-makers – and all other parts of the research ecosystem – has been proposed following extensive consultations as well as discussions at the 8th World Conference on Research Integrity held in Athens last week.</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=20240606093942307" style="color:#000;">Avoid HE policy dramas by harnessing data – Experts</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Nic Mitchell</div>To avoid a repeat of the recent drama which threatened to wreck the Graduate Route, higher education stakeholders and government departments in the United Kingdom need to professionalise how they gather, share and use data to make policy decisions, particularly around foreign students and controlling immigration.</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=20240531171111728" style="color:#000;">Rapid progress in AI research and development faces hurdles</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Amber Wang</div>Major Chinese tech companies last week announced extensive price cuts for their large language model products used for generative artificial intelligence, a move that experts say is tipped to speed up the application of AI models in the domestic market and in research.</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=20240531124650229" style="color:#000;">Open access to scholarly publications is essential, experts agree</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Liz Newmark</div>Publishing models designed to shift journals to open access are failing to deliver change or reduce costs. 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