Breaking News
INDIA
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Shuriah Niazi and Yojana Sharma
India’s University Grants Commission has recently announced two sets of new rules, the first of which allows students to simultaneously pursue two degrees in Indian universities, and the second involving a simplified partnership procedure for joint degrees with foreign universities.
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CHINA
Mimi Leung and Yojana Sharma
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Top Stories
CHINA-UNITED STATES
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The US may suffer as a result of Chinese scientists leaving
Xiaojie Li and Jenny J Lee
A recent study shows that despite a shared belief in the importance of scholarly collaborations, geopolitical tensions between the China and the United States have made international collaboration between the two countries less worthwhile and, in some cases, risky for scientists.
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GLOBAL-AFRICA
Mark Paterson and Thierry M Luescher
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EUROPE
Sjur Bergan
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RUSSIA-UKRAINE
Nathan M Greenfield
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Ranking by Subject
GLOBAL
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University World News reporter
The United States dominated this year’s ‘QS World University Rankings by Subject’ and China’s rise has slowed, but in terms of rankings per entry, New Zealand is top followed by Canada and Australia. Here University World News provides a global and region-by-region report of the results.
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News
UNITED KINGDOM
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Nic Mitchell
A new report commissioned by the vice-chancellors’ body, Universities UK, challenges ‘common myths’ reported in the media surrounding graduate employability, finding a one million shortfall in graduates qualified for professional jobs and says twice as many United Kingdom employees are underqualified compared to the number overqualified.
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RUSSIA-EUROPE
Eugene Vorotnikov
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SWEDEN-NORWAY
Jan Petter Myklebust
Swedish and Norwegian higher education ministries and universities welcome the proposal to expand the European Universities Initiative, but some stakeholders fear it will create an A league and a B league of universities and questions are being raised about whether giving alliances legal status is achievable or desirable.
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AFRICA
Eve Ruwoko
While artificial intelligence, or AI, has been touted as an important tool for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, it has also been identified as a major driver of inequality globally. In Africa, inadequate data is affecting contextual predictive modelling needed to benefit from AI.
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THAILAND
Sulakshana Lamubol
The thesis advisor of a prominent Thai academic is being held legally liable for reference ‘errors’ in a history PhD thesis after a descendant of the Thai royal family referred to in the thesis filed civil lawsuits against the author, his publisher and his thesis advisor.
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DENMARK
Jan Petter Myklebust
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World Blog
GLOBAL
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Alejandro Caballero
Given their importance, it can no longer be assumed that students’ social-emotional skills, traditionally emphasised by primary and secondary schools, are sufficient. Universities need to make social-emotional learning part of their operations if they want to keep students engaged, thriving and learning.
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Commentary
ASIA
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Libing Wang
Taken together, the adoption and implementation of the Tokyo Convention on academic recognition constitute a lengthy process, but one that yields a number of insights, including the need for political commitment, active ministry champions and strong narratives about the benefits of joining.
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UNITED KINGDOM
Louise Nicol
By ignoring mounting evidence that employability support and graduate outcomes for international students are huge opportunity areas, the United Kingdom is in danger of wasting the competitive advantage gained during the pandemic to rebrand the country as the ‘outcomes destination’ for international higher education.
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AUSTRALIA-VIETNAM
Diep Nguyen and Ly Tran
COVID-19 and other crises have brought significant challenges for higher education internationalisation. To move internationalisation forward, constantly updated professional development programmes are needed to build the capacity of academics, including early career staff, to adapt to changing circumstances and the new demands of internationalisation.
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Features
SOMALIA
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Ramadhan Rajab
A rush to medicine at the expense of other fields of study may hurt Somalia’s education sector in the long term as well as the country’s economic development. The high number of medical students and graduates has been fuelled by a combination of factors, including family pressure.
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Top Stories from Last Week
GLOBAL-ASIA
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Yojana Sharma
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hindered and in some cases reversed years of progress towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, universities are being encouraged to focus on forging broad partnerships as a means to effect meaningful change.
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SRI LANKA
Dinesh De Alwis
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UKRAINE-EUROPE
Nic Mitchell
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UNITED STATES
Nathan M Greenfield
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GLOBAL
Yuzhuo Cai, Heather Eggins, Svetlana Shenderova and Elizabeth Balbachevsky
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UNITED KINGDOM-GERMANY
Nic Mitchell
Student mobility exchanges between Germany and the United Kingdom will be cut by half and work placements for German students could dry up completely when the UK’s Turing scheme fully replaces the European Union’s Erasmus programme next year, an online briefing on UK-EU educational cooperation was warned.
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RUSSIA
Pouneh Eftekhari
While the swift higher education reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is understandable, it ignores the most vulnerable and could jeopardise the foundation of international collaboration and ultimately harm individuals and institutions with little to no control over state policy-making.
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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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Sponsored Article
UAE University staff
The International Emergency Medicine Education Project began in 2015 at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences of the United Arab Emirates University or UAEU with a vision to promote emergency medicine and provide free, reusable educational resources for the world’s medical students.
Promoted by United Arab Emirates University.
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