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GLOBAL
Shrika Madivanan
Climate colonialism is hampering universities’ ability to fight climate catastrophe. We need decolonial climate education that moves beyond interventions that reproduce the power structures that have caused the problem in the first place and involves using community knowledge, climate justice framing and South-South peer learning.
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Top Stories
UNITED STATES
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Obama and Biden ‘provided a blueprint’ for Trump to follow
Nathan M Greenfield
Under the second Trump administration, university autonomy is being sacrificed to authoritarian state power by means of aggressively extortionate deal-making, pre-emptive cutoffs of funding and enforcement efforts that are largely illegal, according to a new report from the American Association of University Professors, or AAUP.
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INDIA
Shuriah Niazi
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MALAYSIA-AFRICA
Wagdy Sawahel
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UKRAINE
Nathan M Greenfield
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News
INDIA
Shuriah Niazi
Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after weeks of student protests in New Delhi demanding his resignation over the alleged leak of India’s medical entrance examination paper. It is expected to increase pressure on the government to reform India’s examination system.
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UNITED KINGDOM
Brendan O’Malley
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PACIFIC ISLANDS
Kalinga Seneviratne
At the University of the South Pacific students are being forced to skip meals or walk to university due to skyrocketing costs of living, and many others are limited to online learning due to the cost of accommodation, yet internet connections are not reliable.
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ICELAND
Jan Petter Myklebust
Students from outside the European Economic Area, or EEA, will be required to pay full tuition fees at public universities from 2027, bringing Iceland into line with other Nordic countries that already charge tuition fees for international students. A significant drop in applications is expected.
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SOUTH AFRICA
Desmond Thompson
South Africa’s leading student-success network, which has been described as a ‘global leader’, is laying the groundwork for a national partnership that would bring together the government, business, philanthropy, post-school education and training institutions and civil society into shared responsibility for student success.
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Edtech, AI and Higher Education
GLOBAL
Karen MacGregor
Generative AI in higher education is now ubiquitous – but its use varies between countries, groups and purposes, and persistent concerns remain, says an OECD report. For universities urgently seeking workable models of AI good practice, the report offers myriad examples of responses from around the world.
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World Blog
UNITED KINGDOM
Xuedan Yan and Franziska Lessky
The narrative of the ‘left-wing’ and ‘woke’ university is widespread in the media in the United Kingdom, but what is the evidence to support it? Analysis of newspaper articles about students shows much of the basis for this narrative relies on anecdotal and partial substantiation.
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SDGs
GLOBAL
Betty Leask, Giorgio Marinoni and Hilligje van’t Land
In today’s world, universities have a global social responsibility to help create dynamic and sustainable communities based on equalities in wealth, gender and cultural background. International higher education has been critiqued for being too neoliberal. Now is the time for it to change.
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AFRICA
Maina Waruru
The World Bank Group is recommending future operational autonomy backed by dedicated legal status, independent budget authority, and direct reporting to university leadership for the Eastern and Southern Africa Higher Education Centres of Excellence, or ACE II, project and similar higher education initiatives.
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AFRICA
Eve Ruwoko
Africa must move beyond producing knowledge to implementing solutions that tackle the continent’s sustainability challenges while positioning emerging researchers to lead a new era of African-driven research, delegates heard at the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2026, or SRI2026, Africa Regional Conference held in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Features
RWANDA
Clemence Manyukwe
Scientific excellence is determined by curiosity, perseverance, integrity, collaboration and commitment – not by geography, nor nationality, nor country of origin, says Dr Olivier Uwishema. The Rwandan researcher recently received the 2026 H Richard Tyler Award from the American Academy of Neurology.
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Top Stories from Last Week
AUSTRALIA
Shadi Khan Saif
Australia’s decision to triple the cost of its international student visa fee to help limit migration has triggered concern across the higher education sector, with universities and analysts warning the move could weaken the country’s appeal in an increasingly competitive global student market.
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INDIA
Shuriah Niazi
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GLOBAL
Nathan M Greenfield
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GLOBAL
Muhammad Aamir Cheema
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GLOBAL
Waseem Hassan and Fred Paas
International collaboration has many benefits in a world where we face a raft of global challenges. But do current global university rankings adequately distinguish between international scientific collaboration and scientific dependence, given they are one of the most influential measures of institutional performance?
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PALESTINE
Tarek Abd Elgalil
Gaza’s women academics navigate the ‘double burden’ of war, displacement and their fight to keep education alive amid systematic destruction. Their stories of transforming education into an act of hope and resilience took centre stage at the Gender, Work and Organization Conference in Kazakhstan.
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ETHIOPIA
Abebaw Yirga Adamu
Higher education systems are strongest when governments define public expectations, quality assurance agencies evaluate educational quality and universities exercise professional judgment in designing curricula. Preserving this balance enables institutions to innovate while remaining accountable for the outcomes they achieve.
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SOUTH AFRICA
Imraan Valodia
Three assumptions in Fossil Free South Africa’s report, Carbon Captured? A preliminary review of fossil fuel industry influence and greenwashing on SA campuses, deserve much closer scrutiny: the purpose of the university, the meaning of academic freedom and the nature of the climate transition itself.
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