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31 October 2021 Issue No: 666
UNITED STATES
Nathan M Greenfield
 Far from filling the hole of last year’s enrolment declines in the United States, the hole is getting deeper. A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, significant nationwide declines in undergraduate student enrolments are continuing, according to updated National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data.
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GERMANY-CHINA
Yojana Sharma The cancellation of events at two German universities promoting a book on China’s leader Xi Jinping, allegedly due to pressure from Chinese diplomats, has reopened the debate about university-hosted Chinese Confucius Institutes and renewed calls for government funding of more independent China research at universities. |
UNITED KINGDOM-AFRICA
Jonathan Braude The University of Cambridge’s Jesus College has become the first institution to officially hand over a Benin Bronze artefact to Nigeria – a bronze cockerel known as the Okukor – one of thousands of artifacts looted by British soldiers in an act of colonial violence. |
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SOUTH AFRICA
 Cape Higher Education Consortium
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UNITED KINGDOM
 University of Hull
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UNITED KINGDOM
 University of Hull
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UNITED KINGDOM
 University of Hull
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GLOBAL
Brendan O’Malley
 The United Nations climate change summit known as COP26 opens today amid warnings that the world is way off track on its carbon emissions targets. Governments must step up, but universities, too, have a vital role to play in enabling effective climate action and improving resilience.
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GLOBAL
Peter Sutoris
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CANADA-UNITED KINGDOM
Andrew Goudie and Ian H Rowlands
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| Coronavirus Crisis and HE |
SOUTH AFRICA
Riaan J Rudman
 As the world returns to ‘real’ new normal post-COVID, the higher education sector must make the time to understand the unintended consequences of online learning, ranging from the Zoom-bombing of lectures to the danger of lecturers becoming deepfakes. Institutional policies about privacy also matter.
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AFRICA
Gilbert Nakweya
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AFRICA
Fredrick Muyia Nafukho
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UNITED STATES-ASIA
Yojana Sharma
 Racial profiling of both Asian-American and Asian scientists in the United States is causing fear and anxiety, and particularly for researchers and faculty from China, leading them to reassess their future in the country, and leading universities to reassess engaging with projects in China.
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AFGHANISTAN
Shadi Khan Saif
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SWEDEN
Jan Petter Myklebust
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KENYA
Gilbert Nganga
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NORWAY
Jan Petter Myklebust
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UNITED KINGDOM
Nic Mitchell
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AUSTRIA
Michael Gardner
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DENMARK
Jan Petter Myklebust
UNITED STATES
Holly Hapke
 The technology already exists for universities to deliver live, online and asynchronous teaching so why not give more students the choice to learn in a way that best suits them by combining all three simultaneously? It’s a much more inclusive way of teaching.
UNITED STATES
Xiaofeng Wan
 Racism against Chinese and other large Asian communities in the United States has become more rampant, but Asian international students are ill-equipped to discuss race so US colleges and universities should help them – by enhancing counselling, support and training on race and racism for international students.
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IRELAND
Arthur M Hauptman
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GLOBAL
Meseret F Hailu and Earl E Lee
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GLOBAL
 The 2021 World Access to Higher Education Day or WAHED online conference is being held on 17 November. ‘WAHED 2021: Who will be going to university in 2030?’ will include more than 20 top speakers from six continents. You are invited to participate in this free event.
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