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SUDAN
Wagdy Sawahel
The imprint that the current war in Sudan and the post-war environment will have on universities underscores the importance of introducing structural reforms in the country’s higher education sector, as well as involving the Association of Sudanese Universities and private higher education institutions in post-war recovery efforts.
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CHINA-MIDDLE EAST
Yojana Sharma
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UNITED STATES
Nathan M Greenfield
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Top Stories
INDIA
Incident is setback for the Study in India programme
Shuriah Niazi
Police in India have arrested five people suspected of involvement in a violent attack on international students at the state-run Gujarat University in Ahmedabad last weekend. The students were offering special prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan outside their university hostel.
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HONG KONG
Yojana Sharma
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AFRICA
Ernest Aryeetey
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UNITED STATES
Alonzo M Flowers, Sosanya Jones and Robert T Palmer
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War in Ukraine
UKRAINE-RUSSIA
Nathan M Greenfield
In a deeply personal interview, Lieutenant Oleksandr Bevziuk-Voloshyn, a Ukrainian academic who recently spent over a year in Russian prisoner of war camps, explains how his training as a sociologist gave him the strength and resources to stay one step ahead of his interrogators.
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News
UNITED KINGDOM
Nic Mitchell
Panic stations appear to have set in across the United Kingdom higher education sector with many universities – from the so-called premier league Russell Group institutions to mid-league players and Scottish universities – issuing warnings about course cuts and staff redundancies. But not all universities are struggling.
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NETHERLANDS-CHINA-EUROPE
Yojana Sharma
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SAUDI ARABIA
Wagdy Sawahel
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SOUTH KOREA
Yumi Jeung
An investigation by South Korea’s state auditor has uncovered allegations of collusion between high school teachers and private education companies, pointing to an illicit organisation set up to leak exam questions in exchange for cash, ahead of the competitive annual university entrance examination.
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AFRICA
Wachira Kigotho
A World Bank study that investigated the impact of high environmental temperatures on cognitive development and the performance of students in high-stakes examinations for university entry found that with each additional day with temperatures above 33°C, the total standardised test scores of students are reduced.
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GERMANY
Michael Gardner
With the cost of living rising and part-time job opportunities for students becoming ever scarcer, Germany’s ruling coalition has presented a draft law seeking to improve government financial support for students that also includes pump-priming support for those from less privileged families.
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FINLAND
Jan Petter Myklebust
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ZIMBABWE
Clemence Manyukwe
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World Blog
GLOBAL
Nita Temmerman
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.
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Engaged Research
GLOBAL
Nathan M Greenfield
From boosting high school attendance in poorer areas of the United States to managing waste in Ghana, the Engaged Scholar Award is facilitating the work of a range of academics united by a commitment to using scholarship to make an impact outside the classroom.
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SDGs
KENYA
Wilson Odhiambo
Kirinyaga University may have just breathed new life into Kenya’s ailing cotton industry after university dons developed a portable cotton gin. This may help cotton farmers, an industry that has been struggling to survive, and a government that wants to enhance its manufacturing sector.
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Features
IRELAND
John Walshe
Simon Harris, who rose from college dropout to become the first holder of the full cabinet post of minister for further and higher education, research, innovation and science, is set to become the next Irish Taoiseach (prime minister).
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Top Stories from Last Week
GLOBAL
Edwin Naidu
Professor Achille Mbembe, Cameroonian-born scholar and an academic at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, is the first African to be awarded the Holberg Prize – a major international prize that goes annually to a researcher for groundbreaking work in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology.
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UNITED STATES
Nathan M Greenfield
Findings of a recent survey suggest that the United States is in danger of falling behind other major international student destinations in the competition for international students because it lacks a national strategy to coordinate recruitment and help students navigate the immigration process.
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GLOBAL
Nic Mitchell
Refugees and students returning to their home country after gaining qualifications abroad are among those set to benefit from an international programme agreed upon by the first 28 countries to ratify the UN’s first global treaty on the recognition of higher education qualifications.
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SOUTH SUDAN
Wagdy Sawahel
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GLOBAL
Libing Wang and Tianchong Wang
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GLOBAL
Desmond Thompson
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GERMANY
Nannette Ripmeester
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Sponsored Article
Jessica Silwick
The fast-changing developments in artificial intelligence, a field that is dominated by men, are threatening to disrupt many economic and professional sectors worldwide. ABET has developed comprehensive guidance which it hopes will boost the role women play in STEM education and professions, including in AI.
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Sponsored Article
UAE University staff
In support of both national and global initiatives to address climate change, the United Arab Emirates University launched the ‘Green Research Projects’, a programme designed to finance and bolster research endeavours focused on sustainability and climate change.
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Sponsored Article
UAE University staff
In support of national and global efforts to find innovative solutions to the challenges of climate change and within the UAE University’s roadmap toward COP28 and beyond, the university has aligned its research priorities with the UAE’s (COP28) historic consensus.
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Sponsored Article
University of the Free State staff
The University of the Free State in South Africa has excelled over recent years as a research-led, student-centred and regionally engaged university that contributes to development and social justice through the production of globally competitive graduates and knowledge.
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Sponsored Article
Ashesi University staff
The Education Collaborative, an initiative started by Ashesi University in Ghana in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, is one of Africa’s biggest platforms of higher education stakeholders. Since 2017, the Collaborative has led a new model for collaboration in African higher education that is helping to grow the strength of the ecosystem.
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