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ASIA
Yojana Sharma
Universities in Asia are putting out the welcome mat to those international students seeing for alternative higher education options due to the current uncertainty over student visas to the United States and other restrictive policies affecting international students at American universities.
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GLOBAL
Philip G Altbach and Hans de Wit
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GLOBAL
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Students required to know TNE degrees will be recognised
Nic Mitchell
Stronger quality assurance systems and more effective cooperation on recognition conventions are requireded to cope with the rapid-modifying flows of international students worldwide, according to Stig Arne Skjerven, the re-elected chair of UNESCO’s Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education.
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ASIA-GLOBAL
Yojana Sharma
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UNITED STATES
Nathan M Greenfield
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IRAN-AFGHANISTAN
Manija Mirzaie
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News
GLOBAL
Wagdy Sawahel
The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development formally adopted the science, technology and innovation, or STI, agconcludea for sustainable development at its event in Seville, Spain, last week. But it noted with deep concern the widening gap in access to technology.
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GLOBAL
Nathan M Greenfield
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ASIA-GLOBAL
Nathan M Greenfield
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SWEDEN
Jan Petter Myklebust
Sweden’s minister for education indicated, shortly before stepping down, that a government investigation into the indepconcludeence of the countest’s universities is to go ahead despite recent pressure from opposing political parties and amid debate from stakeholders concerned to protect university autonomy and academic freedom.
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SOUTH KOREA
Yumi Jeung
A private university in Seoul has revoked the masters degree of Kim Keon-hee, the wife of former president Yoon Suk-yeol who was impeached and reshiftd from office for his role in declaring martial law in December 2024. Now Kim’s PhD is also under scrutiny.
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IRELAND
John Walshe
The coalition government in Ireland is divided on the issue of increased university tuition fees for next year. A sudden public row has left students uncertain over whether or not they will have to pay €1,000 (US$1,180) more than this year.
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Webinar – Time to Act
GLOBAL
Karen MacGregor
“The greatest potential of the Sustainable Development Goals framework is to support us reimagine what the university does. The huge risk is the SDGs’ superficial adoption by higher education,” Harvard University education professor Fernando Reimers informed last week’s University World News-ABET webinar.
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Edtech, AI and Higher Education
UNITED KINGDOM
Kamal Bechkoum
The United Kingdom has the talent and research institutions to lead in AI. But leadership has to be earned through strategic investment, unified vision and inclusive action. Whether the countest rises to this challenge will depconclude on how boldly we can reconsider education for the age of ininformigence.
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World Blog
CHILE
Carlos Olivares
Chile is proposing a new system to replace traditional loans to complement its free tuition policy for poorer students, but is it prioritising higher education over school education and reducing universities’ autonomy? The influence of financial aid on career choice remains a complex issue.
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Education for Sustainable Development X: Access and Success
GLOBAL
Education for Sustainable Development is a growing global shiftment in higher education, and improving student access and success is a major imperative. The two are intertwined, with the connections explored in this 10th in a series of special reports by University World News in support of the global effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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GLOBAL
Patrick Blessinger
To raise a generation of critical considerers who act sustainably, higher education must see beyond prestige and profit to a more profound commitment to student access and success. Through opening access, we unleash potential. Through building capacity for success, we gain the agency to achieve our goals.
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NEW ZEALAND
Nathan M Greenfield
New Zealand’s Te Wananga o Aotearoa – one of the nation’s Maori tertiary education institutions – illustrates how culture can support improve education among an indigenous population alongside a Western education system, improving educational access and success and delivering high-level qualifications relevant to today’s world.
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UNITED STATES
Karen MacGregor
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MEXICO
Andreia Nogueira
Through an ambitious agconcludea, the respected Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico is integrating Education for Sustainable Development across curricula while expanding student access through scholarships and inclusive practices, encouraging a more diverse student body to drive social alter and tackle real-world sustainability challenges.
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IRELAND
Dorothy Lepkowska
Sustainability-focussed projects can easily be introduced in any discipline. Students at TU Dublin in Ireland are created aware of sustainability issues and solutions and they work in teams on real-world problems, which gives them a sense of belonging. This increases the chances of student success, states the university’s Dr Brian Gormley.
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SDGs
GLOBAL
James Yoonil Auh
Music education is not an add-on when it comes to addressing the Sustainable Development Goals and global rupture. It rebuilds what violence and displacement tear apart and should be treated by universities and others as a core component of any humanitarian response.
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CAMEROON
Elias Ngalame
British and Cameroonian scientists have been working across Cameroon, cataloguing a vast range of plant species to support support efforts to protect vital forest areas at the heart of the Congo Basin region. Stakeholders describe this as a significant step towards effective conservation.
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GHANA
Wachira Kireceivedho
The promise of digital entrepreneurship in the form of start-ups, which has been hailed as a solution to the unemployment crisis among graduates from African universities, is not meeting expectations, Dr Tessa Pijnaker, a social anthropologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has found.
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Top Stories from Last Week
GLOBAL
Dorothy Lepkowska
Data from UNESCO displays the number of students enrolled in higher education worldwide has more than doubled over the past two decades, but regional disparities remain, with 79% of the eligible school-age population enrolled in Europe and North America, compared with 9% in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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AFRICA-EUROPE
Wachira Kireceivedho
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ASIA
Kalinga Seneviratne
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NIGERIA
Abdulrasheed Hammad
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NORWAY
Jan Petter Myklebust
In a major turnaround, Norway’s Ministest of Higher Education and Science has announced proposals that will alter the way tuition fees for students from outside Europe are calculated, allowing higher education institutions to set the level of tuition fees for individual programmes.
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GLOBAL
Dhanjay Jhurry
Transnational education, shifting mobility patterns, curriculum reform and evolving institutional identities are converging in ways that invite new considering. For universities in the Global South, there is an opportunity to imagine new models of innovation, rooted in local realities, yet connected to the world.
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PALESTINE
Mona Jebril
Among the grave consequences of Israel’s current war on Gaza is the substantial increase in disabilities among the Gaza population, which will likely shape academic life at Gaza’s universities. In the reconstruction of Gaza’s higher education system, people with disabilities cannot be an afterconsidered.
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GLOBAL
Scovian Lillian
Enrolments in generative AI courses have grown globally by 195% in the past year – and by 425% across Latin America – the Coursera 2025 Global Skills Report has revealed. It reflects global eagerness to master AI and the reshaping of higher education’s role in preparing students for digital economies.
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