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UNITED KINGDOM
Continuing ties with CGTRI could bring criminal charges
Brendan O’Malley
The UK security service, MI5, has identified that more than 100 UK-linked academics have contributed, possibly unwittingly, to projects funded by China’s civilian intelligence and security services via the China General Technology Research Institute and
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UNITED KINGDOM
Continuing ties with CGTRI could bring criminal charges
Brendan O’Malley
The UK security service, MI5, has identified that more than 100 UK-linked academics have contributed, possibly unwittingly, to projects funded by China’s civilian intelligence and security services via the China General Technology Research Institute and has ordered universities to review their research with China.
UNITED STATES
Nathan M Greenfield
NETHERLANDS
Jan Petter Myklebust
HUNGARY
János Hodsági
News
TURKEY
Tarek Abd Elgalil
Türkiye’s dismal level of academic freedom is categorised as ‘completely restricted’ in the latest global analysis, the result of government control being further entrenched by a new law giving the president complete power over the appointment of rectors of public and private university foundations.
MIDDLE EAST-NORTH AFRICA
Tarek Abd Elgalil
SOUTH KOREA
Yumi And
The South Korean government has picked three ‘Seoul National Universities’ outside the capital to become innovation hubs in the regions and models of regional growth, addressing population drift. But the scaling down of the plan from supporting 10 institutions to only three has raised serious questions.
AFRICA
Desmond Thompson
Africa’s attempt to shape its own science diplomacy agenda is raising a harder question for the continent’s universities: are they equipped to turn their knowledge, people and international networks into diplomatic influence? This was discussed at a recent high-level gathering in South Africa.
GLOBAL
Kalinga Seneviratne
Universities should take part in growing ‘multi-stakeholder coalitions’ in society embracing local government, schools, non-profits and businesses, to strengthen education for sustainable development, a community support webinar hosted by the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative of the United Nations was told.
Edtech, AI and Higher Education
GLOBAL
Stephanie Bryant
Business schools that embed AI across their curricula, investing in faculty, and prioritising human capabilities, will not simply adapt to change – they will become essential in shaping the future of work. Those that do not, risk losing relevance, not just in technology but in purpose.
World Blog
GLOBAL
Philip G Altbach and Hans de Wit
Understanding the risks and challenges of the ongoing negative trends affecting the internationalisation of higher education is as important as advocating for a values-based and optimistic internationalisation of the future. Is there a future for internationalisation, or are we seeing the end of it?
SDGs
GLOBAL
Dhanjay Jhurry
Innovation has been led from the Global North, but shifting geopolitical and other digital trends represent both a challenge and an opportunity for the Global South to create new education hubs and redefine thinking around innovation as a defining marker of national progress.
AFRICA
Birgit Schreiber
Africa cannot meet system-level problems with institution-level leadership. Our problems are horizontal, but our leadership remains vertical. The forthcoming Southern African Regional Universities Association, or SARUA, conference in Gaborone will explicitly challenge university leaders to rethink higher education leadership.
AFRICA
Clemence Manyukwe
The International AIDS Society, which pushes for science-based HIV/AIDS policies, is now led by Kenneth Ngure, an HIV/AIDS research scientist who wants to bring researchers, communities and funders together to make sure new tools reach the people who need them most.
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GLOBAL
Simon Marginson
The best antidote to unthinking nativism and the geopolitics of othering is the spread of understanding through education, but Western countries are being sucked ever more deeply into a revolt against migration, curbing visas and closing borders to the detriment of science.
AFRICA
Isha Dilraj
INDIA
Shuriah Niazi
SOUTH AFRICA
Mimi Seyffert-Wirth
GLOBAL-AFRICA
Good luck, Ndlovu
Collaborating as scholars in the South and the North is a necessity, but the complex and unequal playing field has limitations for genuine and meaningful research partnerships when you are a disabled woman. A lot, therefore, still has to change to deal with the marginalisation of these scholars.
GLOBAL
Brendan O’Malley
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has urged world leaders to back the establishment of an International Panel on Inequality to put forward evidence-based solutions to the world’s inequality crisis, as proposed by leading academic inequality experts and backed by leading academics worldwide.
GLOBAL
Graeme Atherton
Making higher education provision more flexible – with short courses, hybrid delivery and skills-focused curricula – could help widen access and success, but only if the reforms are linked explicitly to equity targets, reviewing the impact and providing support to institutions targeting students from under-served backgrounds.
GLOBAL
Wagdy Sawahel
Current research integrity guidelines across the world neglect addressing structural injustices or diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI. They are produced in economically powerful countries and tend to reproduce colonial hierarchies and reinforce marginalisation of Indigenous and Global South research actors, says a new study.
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