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Given that micro-credentials are a gateway to lifelong learning in Asia, it is imperative for the region to adopt a model that recognises both national qualifications frameworks and quality assurance as essential academic infrastructure to support quality micro-credential education for all learner types.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, medical specialists’ voices were at times drowned out by misinformation and disinformation. In response, a medical school has introduced a module that focuses on socio-political and historical influences, such as structural racism and healthcare, and the nature of the post-truth world.
While African countries have been stubbornly preoccupied with often stale decolonisation narratives, hegemonic forces have consolidated their self-preservation and -interest. Now that a new global reality is unfolding, African countries need to proactively engage, re-calibrating their discourses. In this, the role of universities is critical.
The Academy of Science of South Africa, the country’s official national science academy, has issued a sharply worded public statement warning that science – and the international systems of scientific collaboration that sustain it – are “under threat” from the actions of the current United States administration under President Donald Trump.