Special Reports – Global Edition
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The third UNESCO World Higher Education Conference was held in Barcelona in Spain between 18 and 20 May 2022. The theme was Reinventing Higher Education for a Sustainable Future and the plan was to forge a common roadmap for higher education to 2030. University World News is the exclusive media partner for the conference.
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The international academic network Scholars at Risk published its annual Free to Think report on 9 December. It describes a disturbing litany of attacks on academic freedom. While life on many campuses around the world may be safe and enriching, for academics and students in scores of countries, having a curious and critical mind and a social conscience can be a dangerous thing.
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After 18 months of global disruption by COVID-19, including of higher education, it is time to shine light and reflect upon two active areas of response – educational technologies and innovation. How have these pre-existing spheres evolved since institutions shifted online? What’s happening? How might they help tackle inequalities in the sector locally and globally? How might they shape teaching and learning, and higher education’s future? These are some of the questions probed in two Special Reports, published this week and last week.
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This week University World News reports on the performances and trends by region of individual universities and national systems in the just-published QS World University Rankings 2022, which this year ranks 1,300 institutions worldwide using data from academic papers, employers and academics.
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The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021, released earlier this month, compared 13,883 individual university programmes, taken by students at 1,440 universities globally, across 51 academic disciplines. Here we publish the findings from each region, using QS data and analysis.
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The third World Access to Higher Education Day or WAHED, held on 17 November, was marked by more than 30 events across 25 countries, including six online conferences involving over 2,000 delegates held in association with University World News, with a strong focus on the impact of COVID-19 on equity.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an unprecedented spurt in global research collaboration in the quest to find a vaccine. Over three weeks, University World News examines the phenomenon that has so far allowed for more than 200 clinical trials to be launched within months of the virus spreading across borders.
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The third edition of Student Affairs and Services in Higher Education: Global foundations, issues, and best practices is an enormous volume, involving around 250 authors and others from 125 countries. The open access book was recently published by the International Association of Student Affairs and Services with Deutsches Studentenwerk. In this three-part Special Report, authors describe and interpret the landscape of student affairs globally, developments and issues, achievements and challenges.
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Corruption in Higher Education: Global challenges and responses, edited by Elena Denisova-Schmidt (pictured), has just been published. The scope of the book is as far-reaching as the corruption it describes, which is serious and is steadily eroding societies, universities and authorities. This special report reviews the corruption in universities that the book reveals, its manifestations and definitions, and some new approaches to tackling the problem.
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Shadi Khan Saif and Yojana Sharma
Iran, which has had a high incidence of the coronavirus COVID-19, has found it spread outwards from the city of Qom which has many religious seminaries, mostly run by the state, and many international students and pilgrims, to neighbouring Pakistan, Afghanistan and even India.
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