1 May 2022  Issue No: 690

Students at a top Shanghai university launched a protest against strict campus restrictions as a result of China’s zero-COVID policy, while at another university in Kunshan city, students have objected to excessive penalties which include suspension for those deemed to have breached rules.

The World Bank, which does not have a strong track record of helping Ukraine’s universities, including those destabilised by past conflict in the Donbas region, now needs to reconsider its approach and take a leading role in the rebuilding of the higher education sector.

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have implemented new rules splitting the universities’ six-day week in two between male and female students, underlining the failure of their previous gender segregation policy of forcing males and females to sit separately in a divided class and doubling lecturers’ teaching time.

The Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 serves as a handbook for the development of a high-quality digital education ecosystem which puts emphasis on co-creation, linking actors in the European Union and its member states, including teachers, citizens, businesses and various sectors of society.

Education is a fundamental human right and should be a priority for children and young people from all corners of the world. But when the institution committing the worst human rights atrocities is inviting you to join their school, what would you do?

A new accord puts climate action squarely on the international education agenda, outlining 70 concrete actions that universities can take to combat climate change at three different levels of commitment in order to make it accessible to a broad range of institutions.

A new book promising surprises highlights the rather unsurprising fact that children who adhere to a religious faith tend to academically outperform their non-religious counterparts, but when it comes to women, some religious beliefs actively sabotage the academic aspirations of their adherents.

Amid accusations that the higher education sector is among the top five sectors responsible for bringing the world to the brink of destruction, a group of leaders is championing the Sustainable Development Goals as a more responsible method than rankings and university league tables.