Transformative Leadership: Social Impact and Civic Engagement
GLOBAL
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Nic Mitchell
There are many ways for universities to improve their social impact, but the key is listening to communities, learning from them, understanding their needs and working together to find solutions, speakers told a University World News webinar held in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation.
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GLOBAL
Wei Liu
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GLOBAL
Peter Sutoris
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SOUTH AFRICA
Siphosethu Nxumalo
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LEBANON
Brendan O’Malley
A scholarship programme geared to encouraging transformative leadership is enabling African students and alumni of the American University of Beirut, such as Claudette Igiraneza, to work to ease the plight of exploited migrant domestic workers in the Lebanese capital, some of whom have faced harrowing abuse.
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PAKISTAN
Brendan O’Malley
Three students, with the support of a university incubator, have turned a vague aspiration to save waste food and eradicate hunger in Lahore, Pakistan, into a sustainable social enterprise which has delivered more than seven million meals to poor families who earn around US$100 a month or less.
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EAST AFRICA-GLOBAL
John Agaba
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EUROPE
Josep Maria Garrell and Thomas Estermann
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INDIA
V Santhakumar
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IRELAND
Brendan O’Malley
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NORWAY
Jan Petter Myklebust
The concentration of universities in cities is contributing to depopulation and deprivation of rural areas in Norway and government should respond by legislating to decentralise higher education provision to encourage more people to stay and study and work in rural areas, according to a new government report.
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GLOBAL
Brendan O’Malley
The United Nations secretary general has called on the world to take urgent climate action and has praised the work of universities as “essential to our success”. He has called on all organisations to examine their contribution to achieving carbon neutrality.
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UNITED KINGDOM
Brendan O’Malley
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SOUTH AFRICA
Elaine Davie
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GERMANY
Michael Gardner
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AFRICA
Matthew Wallace, Omotayo Fakinlede, Matthew Harsh, Victor Kongo, Ravtosh Bal, Ann Kingiri and Gussai Sheikheldin
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GLOBAL
Budd L Hall and Rajesh Tandon
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EUROPE
Brendan O’Malley
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UNITED KINGDOM
Amatey Doku
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INDIA
Monika Maini
The sudden switch to online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic does not seem to be a temporary one, yet it has caused rising inequality and has highlighted the lack of a student voice in India’s higher education system, particularly for the most disadvantaged students.
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GLOBAL
Michael Peak
Tertiary education works and is vital in many ways for development, but evidence shows how it could have a greater social impact through collaboration, consideration of context and clear communication, if only its contribution was not being overlooked by major funders and the public.
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GLOBAL
Marina Malgina and Dag Hovdhaugen
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GLOBAL
Dongxin Feng and Leonardo Peroni
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Transformative Leadership: Employability in the Digital Age
MEXICO
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María Elena Hurtado
Tecnológico de Monterrey or Monterrey Tec is redesigning itself to develop students as entrepreneurial and socially minded leaders who can adapt to the future. It has revamped the role of professors and increased the focus on cutting-edge technologies, challenge-based learning and personal competencies, such as flexibility, leadership skills and values.
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GLOBAL
Marc-Jan Zeeman and Leon Cremonini
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RWANDA
John Agaba
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GLOBAL
Marguerite J Dennis
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CANADA-KENYA
Keith Nuthall
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UNITED STATES
Linda A Wendling
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SINGAPORE
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Kalinga Seneviratne
Singapore’s Nanyang Polytechnic, partnering with industry players, is launching a bold and unprecedented approach to course design and delivery by introducing a new Professional Competency Model for students in business intelligence and analytics, structured around gaining workplace competencies rather than a subject-based approach.
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GLOBAL
Maurits Van Rooijen
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EUROPE
Nic Mitchell
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GLOBAL
Nathan M Greenfield
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UNITED KINGDOM
Brendan O’Malley
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Transformative Leadership: Webinar on Employability
GLOBAL
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Nic Mitchell
Universities will need to focus much more on the successful exit of their students if they are to prove their relevance to employers in the next decade, a webinar on ‘Employability in the Digital Age’, hosted by University World News in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, was told.
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Transformative Leadership: Internationalisation for Change
KENYA
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Reuben Kyama
Researchers from the University of Greenwich in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute have created a first of its kind credit scheme to cushion smallholder farmers in Kenya’s dryland areas from frequent droughts.
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UGANDA-UNITED STATES
Mary Beth Marklein
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GLOBAL
Simon Marginson
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GLOBAL
Mary Beth Marklein
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GLOBAL
Nico Jooste
Internationalisation of higher education can no longer be seen to be practised only within and by higher education institutions. The translation of the global to the local will only impact the local community beyond the university community if intentional internationalisation activities are implemented through alumni.
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GLOBAL
Brendan O’Malley
None of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs – the internationally agreed framework for tackling poverty, inequality, disease and climate change – can be achieved without the contribution of higher education through research, teaching and community engagement, networks representing 2,000 universities have told the UN.
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GLOBAL
Scott Clerk and Grace Karram Stephenson
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GLOBAL
Uwe Brandenburg, Hans de Wit, Elspeth Jones and Betty Leask
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Transformative Leadership: Regional Impact
LIBERIA
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Brendan O?Malley
Steeped in transformative leadership training at Ghana's Ashesi University, former refugee Kpetermeni Siakor was determined to do something about the Ebola crisis spreading through his country, Liberia. He and his peers came up with a data collection and tracking solution that helped cut response times dramatically.
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AFRICA
Christabel Ligami
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EUROPE
Lidia Borrell-Damian and Thomas Jørgensen
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INDIA
V Santhakumar
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JAPAN-SRI LANKA
Suvendrini Kakuchi
Japanese and Sri Lankan universities are collaborating in a project that challenges paradigms of development in a way that will make universities drivers of change, supporting research towards economic growth, social transformation, combating climate change, peace-building and disaster prevention in their regions.
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PAKISTAN
Zainab Faiza
An award-winning student initiative aimed at women in a squatter community in Pakistan has had a transformative impact on healthcare and education by spreading awareness, raising funds and providing teaching and is looking to expand to other areas.
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INDIA
Shuriah Niazi
India has a surfeit of software engineers and America needs more. This supply and demand situation, along with steep differences in earnings in the United States and the Indian subcontinent, is inspiring growth in the number of ‘remote’ US jobs for software engineers in India. But there is a gap in coding skill levels between the countries, creating a need for upskilling.
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CANADA
Grace Karram Stephenson
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MEXICO
Fernando León García
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GHANA
Vincent Avornyo and Eric Fredua-Kwarteng
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AUSTRALIA
Thanh Pham and Chris Thompson
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Transformative Leadership: Innovation and Technology
GLOBAL
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Brendan O’Malley
The leading global environmental authority has warned that many universities are struggling with the concept of ‘greening’ and has urged higher education institutions worldwide to replicate exemplar universities who are pioneering green innovations and developing and implementing strategies to reduce their carbon footprint.
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SOUTH AFRICA
Laura Czerniewicz
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GLOBAL
Michael A Peters
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KENYA-UNITED STATES
Brendan O’Malley
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LATIN AMERICA
José-Ginés Mora and María-José Vieira
Latin American universities stand out for the way they have prioritised social engagement and pioneered innovative community programmes, from technology incubators for cooperatives to compulsory community service, which could provide a model for universities in other regions that are interested in transformative leadership.
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GLOBAL
Brian Cantor
The World Technology Universities Network is a collection of universities dedicated to exploring best practice in how technology can change the world for the better, addressing the most pressing global challenges and contributing to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
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GLOBAL
Nadine Burquel and Anja Busch
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Transformative Leadership: Ethical Leadership
UNITED KINGDOM
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Michael Shattock
The move to a market-oriented governance model has not improved higher education. Unless the academic community is placed at the heart of the sector, it will lose many of those innovative and transformative characteristics that have made higher education internationally successful.
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AFRICA
Paul Ndebele
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NEW ZEALAND
Geoff Maslen
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FINLAND
Jan Petter Myklebust
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GLOBAL
Bernhard Streitwieser
Refugees are an important part of international higher education. By studying transformative approaches to how refugees are integrated into education and wider society, we can ensure that they achieve their potential and that higher education institutions fulfil their humanitarian duties.
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GLOBAL
Peter D Eckel
University governing boards are important, but ethical lapses set them and their universities back. Ethical behaviour can be promoted through board culture, but also through developing awareness of the specific weaknesses of particular board cultures and safeguarding against them, transforming university behaviour.
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GLOBAL
Elena Denisova-Schmidt
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VIETNAM
Mark A Ashwill and Eddie West
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Transformative Leadership: Towards Gender Empowerment
SWEDEN
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Jan Petter Myklebust
Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, has launched a strategic Gender Initiative for Excellence to address gender inequality in the faculty via a comprehensive long-term US$32 million programme that will involve changes of academic culture, systems and processes, together with selective recruitment.
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CHILE
María Elena Hurtado
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JAPAN
Suvendrini Kakuchi
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RUSSIA
Karen MacGregor
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COSTA RICA-ZIMBABWE
Brendan O’Malley
Supported by her professors, Tanyaradzwa Chinyukwi is working with other young change-makers to enable local women and girls in Zimbabwe and Zambia to break through the barriers of poverty and patriarchy to end the normalisation of abuse and exploitation and help them achieve their potential.
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EUROPE
Martine Rahier and Lidia Borrell-Damián
While more women are making their way to the highest levels of academic leadership in Europe, the numbers are still shaky and many obstacles remain in their way. How can we change this and propel women to top institutional positions?
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GLOBAL
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Brendan O’Malley
Women world leaders have warned of regressive movements gaining traction that could seek to halt and erode both multilateralism and the gains in rights for women achieved via multilateralism in recent years. University World News talks to Susana Malcorra, former foreign minister of Argentina and one of the founders of the group.
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GLOBAL
Jan Petter Myklebust
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RWANDA
Rodrigue Rwirahira
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LATIN AMERICA
Julieta Suárez-Cao and Alondra Arellano
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GLOBAL
Miriam David
To truly transform higher education and promote gender equality requires more than raising numbers of female students and dealing with individual cases of abuse. It needs a deeper structural approach, but an increasingly competitive global higher education sector means such approaches take a low profile.
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FRANCE
Hélène Périvier
The PRESAGE programme at Sciences Po in France aims to transform the way gender inequalities are treated within higher education through embedding a gender perspective across the humanities and social sciences. Instead of gathering researchers in a specific unit, it promotes this approach throughout every graduate school and research centre.
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KAZAKHSTAN
Svetlana Shakirova
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Transformative Leadership: Human Capital
GLOBAL
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Sean Gallagher
The growth of microcredential offerings is just one strand in a broader trend towards more continuous, more industry-aligned and competency-focused post-secondary learning and an era of greater overlap and integration between education and experience, with real-world employer projects and micro-internships.
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GLOBAL-UNITED KINGDOM
Sonal Minocha
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GLOBAL
Olga Nazaykinskaya
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UGANDA
Evelyn Lirri
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AFRICA
Brendan O’Malley
Studying information systems combined with leadership classes and project experience with students from multiple disciplines have enabled one young Kenyan to develop an award-winning app that could save small tea farmers billions of shillings in wasted crop.
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SOUTH AFRICA
Riaz Moola
African start-ups are often among the most innovative because of the challenges they have to overcome. One start-up aims to succeed where many university computer science courses fail, transforming the labour market by giving Africans the IT skills they need to access the jobs of the future.
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GLOBAL-UNITED KINGDOM
Martin Hamilton
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GLOBAL
Jiro Kokuryo
A multicultural study in the Pacific Rim region has shown that there is a serious divide between technology – especially artificial intelligence – and society, and we desperately need universities to develop talent that can design technological and social systems simultaneously, moving towards a concurrent design of technosocial systems.
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GLOBAL
Michael A Peters
The digital university will need to prepare for a new stage of the knowledge economy that will unify science and higher education, but it is likely to be one with fewer jobs for many and may mean universities need to rethink their purpose.
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Transformative Leadership: Towards Social Equity
LIBERIA
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Brendan O?Malley
Undergraduate student Emmanuel Gweamee, 24, has suffered from war, discrimination and disability growing up in Liberia. But after being trained in transformative leadership at a university in the United States, he is finding practical ways to empower excluded disabled young people back in his homeland.
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GLOBAL
Rajesh Tandon
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GLOBAL
Joanna Newman
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AFRICA
Ihron Rensburg
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GLOBAL
Nic Mitchell
Widening access to and participation in higher education is not enough to tackle social exclusion; psychological support for disadvantaged students struggling with the problems they face at university is just as important, the first World Access to Higher Education Day conference heard.
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MIDDLE EAST
Nic Mitchell
Higher education has for years been overlooked by aid programmes. But universities in the United Kingdom, Jordan and Lebanon are partnering in a UK aid scheme helping Syrian refugees access good quality short courses that will open a pathway into formal academic qualifications.
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AFRICA
Teppo Jouttenus and Gabi Zolla
Since it launched in Rwanda in 2013, Kepler has set up a refugee campus which combines in-person, online and on-the-job learning and has led to increased employment outcomes. It hopes to work with partners and other institutions to expand its model to other parts of the continent.
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EUROPE
Hanne Smidt
Empowering academic refugees can help to change mindsets so that refugees are regarded as a social asset rather than a cost. They can also enhance inclusion and contribute to a deeper understanding of refugees and the challenges they face in higher education.
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CANADA
Keith Nuthall
A project inspired by Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is attempting to show how the quality of education among the country’s Indigenous people can be improved and how it can help young people to bring social and economic change to their communities.
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UNITED STATES
Andrés Castro Samayoa
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Transformative Leadership: Social Equity in South Africa
SOUTH AFRICA
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Rajani Naidoo and Rushil Ranchod
To achieve truly transformative change, South Africa needs to develop a world-class higher education system that supports differentiated forms of education, with institutions linked to an overall developmental goal. That requires adequate incentives for different types of institutions to excel in different missions.
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Transformative Leadership: 2018 Overview
GLOBAL
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Nadine Burquel
Transformative leaders who inspire academics and students, and are able to help their institutions compete with more agile external providers, are critical to the future development of universities in a fast-evolving world.
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GLOBAL
Brendan O’Malley
For Carolyn Shields, a leading thinker on leadership education, transformative leadership means challenging how inequity impacts the most marginalised, neglected or oppressed people, but if universities are going to encourage students to change the status quo, they first need to change themselves.
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GLOBAL
Brendan O’Malley
What is the role of universities in driving positive change in the world? How can they prepare students to face the challenges ahead? These key questions will drive our second series on Transformative Leadership, published in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, starting this week.
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AFRICA
Brendan O’Malley
Ubah Ali was six when she was circumcised in a country where 98% of girls are victims of the female genital mutilation (FGM) procedure that brings considerable pain and health risks. Empowered by higher education and transformative leadership thinking, she is working for change in her homeland, Somaliland.
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GLOBAL
Stephen Coan and Brendan O?Malley
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GLOBAL
Lennart Levi and Bo Rothstein
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NORWAY
Dag Rune Olsen
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GLOBAL
Simon Marginson
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AFRICA
Eric Fredua-Kwarteng
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EUROPE-ISRAEL
Rachael Gelfman Schultz
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LATIN AMERICA
Alicia Cantón
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Transformative Leadership Webinar: Leaders of Social Change
GLOBAL
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Paul Rigg and Brendan O’Malley
Can universities be crucibles of transformative leadership developing students to be capable of making an impact on society? As part of its Transformative Leadership series published in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation, University World News joined DrEducation to answer this question in an international webinar held on 8 February.
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Transformative Leadership: Innovation
AFRICA
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Brendan O’Malley
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, the first elected woman President of Mauritius, Africa’s third most developed country, is a former biodiversity scientist and champion of higher education and research on the continent. She talks to University World News about her vision for transforming the continent.
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GLOBAL
Mary Beth Marklein
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BRAZIL
Paulo Savaget and Cleonir Tumelero
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EUROPE
Joseph M Piro
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PAKISTAN
Arif Naveed
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GLOBAL
Todd Davey, Victoria Galan-Muros and Arno Meerman
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AFRICA
Thierry Zomahoun and Barry Green
African countries must make universities engines of development. To achieve this, universities should be at the centre of sustained ecosystems of innovation and able to produce scientists who can turn ideas into businesses.
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GLOBAL
Paul Benneworth, Magnus Gulbrandsen, Ellen Hazelkorn and Andrew Gibson
Arts and humanities research has a profound capacity to transform society and shows how innovation is not just the preserve of science and business, but can occur in everyday life.
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Transformative Leadership: Internationalisation
GLOBAL
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Brendan O’Malley
Arthur Muneza's family fled the fighting in Rwanda when he was five. With an international scholarship, he has been able to turn his experience as a refugee, collaborating with peers from other cultures, to his advantage by working with researchers from the United States and across Africa to save the continent's giraffes from the threat of skin disease.
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ASIA
Joshua Mok Ka-ho
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GLOBAL
Ellen Hazelkorn
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LATIN AMERICA
Bruno Morche
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CHINA-UNITED STATES
Shuangmiao Han and Zhou Zhong
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RUSSIA
Yulia Grinkevich and Maria Shabanova
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ASIA
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Robert M Hollister
A recent international summit in Beijing highlights the growing role of Asian universities in social responsibility initiatives – that educate students to be transformative leaders and mobilise universities to address societal challenges – alongside innovative new approaches.
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Transformative Leadership: Ethical values
GLOBAL
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Mervyn Frost
There have been various attempts to narrow the scope of what universities stand for, but first and foremost universities have a commitment to seeking truth, providing ethical leadership and upholding academic freedom.
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GLOBAL
Brendan O’Malley
Jamil Salmi has provided policy advice to governments and university leaders in more than 90 countries. University World News invited him to discuss how higher education institutions and systems can provide and promote ethical leadership that is transformative.
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NIGERIA
Brendan O’Malley
Blooming Soyinka not only became the first person in her family to study in college, she earned two degrees in North America. Now she is determined to help Africa’s artisans transform their lives by showing the world that continent has beautiful skills and products to offer.
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NIGERIA
Brendan O’Malley
Blooming Soyinka not only became the first person in her family to study in college, she earned two degrees in North America. Now she is determined to help Africa’s artisans transform their lives by showing the world that continent has beautiful skills and products to offer.
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GLOBAL
Hans de Wit
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CHINA
Rui Yang
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GLOBAL
Stephen Heyneman
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GLOBAL
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Margaret Andrews
After the global crash there was some soul-searching about business ethics and many courses started up. But do any of them work?
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GLOBAL
Dennis Tourish
Investing ultimate power in strong leaders leads to ethical failures. True transformation will only happen when there is a more equal exchange, where leaders are subject to criticism and where everyone has an input into making decisions that affect them.
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AFRICA
Eric Fredua-Kwarteng
Developmental universities are a model for developing countries and they should have a distinct, ethical way of doing research, where the power in the relationship between researcher and research participant is evenly distributed.
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GLOBAL
Neal King
Ethics should be at the heart of universities’ mission and yet there is no global body overseeing ethical behaviour. In its absence, the United Nations Academic Impact provides a way for universities around the world to commit to high standards.
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GLOBAL
Gillian Brock
Carefully crafted programmes of compulsory service and taxation can reasonably balance the interests, freedoms and opportunities of all who are affected by brain drain, offsetting the losses of those who are left behind in an ethical way.
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Transformative Leadership: Gender Empowerment Debate
GLOBAL
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Rebecca C Conklin
A debate, organised by University World News within a larger conference organised by the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program, examined how universities can encourage women leaders through personal development and institutional assistance.
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Transformative Leadership for Gender Empowerment
AFGHANISTAN
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Jennifer Murtazashvili and Aarya Nijat
Women leaders in Afghanistan appear imposed from above, often to placate foreign donors. To truly transform Afghan society, they need to develop more links with grassroots movements and to engage with men in their families and in their communities.
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AFRICA
Sharon Dell
At the age of 12, Malawi’s Mphangera Kamanga realised that there was a need for labour-saving technologies and improved policies to help smallholders – women in particular – to improve their yields. At 24, her potential contribution to change is being recognised at the highest levels.
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CANADA
Melody Viczko
Women seeking leadership ought to challenge the ways in which they are positioned by universities. Let’s flip the mentorship concept on its head, asking who needs to be mentored in order for change to happen? Let’s ask what kinds of universities we want to lead and invest our labour towards creating institutions that inspire great leadership.
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GLOBAL
Brendan O’Malley
Gender inequalities remain deeply entrenched in every society, the United Nations says, but the international consensus on the need to achieve gender equality is stronger than ever – and universities have their own part to play.
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GLOBAL
Mary Beth Marklein
United States journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana about a young woman who built a business under the Taliban and Ashley's War, the story of 20 women recruited to carry out missions for the US Army in Afghanistan, talks to University World News about women and leadership and the impact of higher education.
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GLOBAL
Kate White
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ASIA
Emma Sabzalieva
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GLOBAL
Zuleika Arashiro
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GLOBAL
Jennifer Piscopo
What can universities learn from women’s transformative leadership in politics and business? One lesson is that women tend to win top posts at times of crisis and that can shorten their time in office.
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AFRICA
Nompumelelo Motlafi
Feminist studies have been dominated by white feminists. It is time for black academics and students to transform the debate and for different forms of feminism to be part of the decolonisation movement.
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Transformative Leadership for Social Equity
KENYA
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Brendan O’Malley
For years lack of teachers fuelled despair over education in Dadaab, a camp complex for 340,000 mostly Somalian refugees. An innovative higher education project involving Kenyan and international universities has brought radical improvements to teaching quality and opened up a pathway to study for a university degree in the camp. But a drastic government decision could make it very difficult for the project to continue.
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GLOBAL
Rebecca Farnum
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SOUTH AFRICA
Suellen Shay
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GLOBAL
Marybeth Gasman
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INDIA
Brendan O’Malley
Geeta Dharmarajan has dedicated her life to challenging poverty in the slums of Delhi through using the power of story and student-centred learning to transform educational achievement and questions whether Indian universities are preparing young people to think, ask questions and take action to change society for the better.
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UNITED STATES
Brendan O’Malley
Aya Waller-Bey suffers from survivor guilt. She knows she is one of the lucky few from a mostly-black community of blue collar workers to make it to not just one but two elite universities and she is using the opportunity to tackle the injustice, inequality of opportunity, by pressing for diversity on the curriculum – and the study of hip hop.
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GLOBAL
Margaret Andrews
There’s a huge focus on leadership in business schools, including transformative leadership, but with very few tangible results. A focus on visionary leaders may be too simplistic, though, and more innovative approaches are being trialled.
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CHINA
Bin Wu and W John Morgan
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ISRAEL
Gad Yair and Nofar Gueta
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Transformative Leadership: An Overview
EUROPE
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President Michael D Higgins
In an age of intellectual crisis at least equal to that of the late 19th century, it is in our universities that we can begin to enact the transformative thinking required to reconnect us with deeper issues of what it means to be human and create a more inclusive society.
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BRAZIL
Marcelo Knobel and Renato HL Pedrosa
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SOUTH AFRICA
Heather Nel
In an age of innovation and change, universities need transformative leadership, which is characterised by moral courage and activism. In Africa this means seizing the opportunities offered by protests like #FeesMustFall to drive change.
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GLOBAL
Lisa M Dietlin
What is the attraction of today’s scholarship programmes focused on social leadership and social enterprise and why are increasing numbers of philanthropists putting their money behind them?
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GLOBAL
Chris Roche
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GLOBAL
Rajika Bhandari
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GLOBAL
Carolyn Muriel Shields
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COSTA RICA
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Paul Rigg
Sindy Patricia Ramos Pocón had to drop out of school to help her family survive. Now she is studying at university and leading a project to help poor families change their lives with support from university staff and peer discussions on leadership.
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UGANDA
Brendan O’Malley
Joseph Munyambanza was one of only four children in his refugee camp primary school to make it to secondary school. He made it his mission from the age of 14 – supported by leadership training and scholarships – to transform education opportunity and quality in his camp.
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AFRICA
Stephen Coan
“We aim to develop the future Nelson Mandela, the next Wangari Maathai, and the African Bill Gates.” There’s nothing shy about the aims of the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa, which is preparing students not just for university but for playing a leading role on the continent.
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Sponsored Article
University of Victoria staff
Accelerating Community Energy Transformation is a University of Victoria-led collaborative initiative that brings together over 40 partners, including Indigenous knowledge keepers and community leaders, to create innovative place-based solutions for energy system transformation.
Promoted by the University of Victoria.
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Sponsored Article
Stellenbosch University staff
Africa needs to stop paying the price for the rest of the world’s recalcitrance to act fast enough in response to the irrefutable conclusions that climate change is real and that the impact of global warming could be devasting, says Professor Guy Midgley, interim director of the School for Climate Studies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Promoted by Stellenbosch University.
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Sponsored Article
UAE University staff
Researchers from the United Arab Emirates University have shown that the potential benefits of building energy savings and a cooler indoor environment, as well as improved cooling effect on air temperature at pedestrian level, strongly indicate that a cool roof with high solar reflectance and albedo is a promising strategy for buildings in regions with hot, arid climates.
Promoted by United Arab Emirates University.
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Sponsored Article
Aftab Dean
A new university ranking system aims to serve as a catalyst for positive transformation in higher education, ensuring that universities create an environment grounded in integrity and sustainability that inspires and supports students and staff in the development of novel solutions to global challenges.
Promoted by Globethics.net.
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Sponsored Article
University of Pretoria staff
In the publication of its first progress report on its contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals, the University of Pretoria is navigating new territory at the same time as it is acknowledging its clear stewardship role in protecting the environment and biodiversity.
Promoted by the University of Pretoria.
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