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Universities should lead the fight to preserve humanity.

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Universities should lead the fight to preserve humanity

Trent Batson

As Australia burns and the global climate emergency proceeds, now is the time for universities to become leaders for global action against climate change by pledging to teach students to prepare humanity to mitigate the effects of the wave of extinction events to come.

GLOBAL

Developing disability-inclusive higher education systems

Stephen Thompson
Disability-inclusive higher education will be essential for universities to contribute to addressing societal inequalities and global challenges. Despite calls for inclusion, the implementation of disability-inclusive higher education has remained limited. So what are the barriers and what would overcoming them mean?

GLOBAL-SOUTH AFRICA

Universities are a decisive battlefield of our time

Nico Cloete
The formation and diffusion of ideology, particularly as it relates to the development of citizenship and state formation, is still a fundamental function of universities, which we neglect at our peril, particularly at a time marked by the rise of populist and autocratic regimes around the world.

UNITED KINGDOM

‘Dehumanising’ impact of casualisation of HE staff exposed

Brendan O’Malley
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GLOBAL

Soros puts US$1bn into HE to counter authoritarianism

Brendan O’Malley

George Soros, the global financier and philanthropist, has announced that he is donating US$1 billion to create a new global university network to foster critical thinking and open inquiry and better prepare students for current and future challenges “amid the current resurgence of authoritarianism”.

SWEDEN

First graduate school programme on SDGs hugely popular

Jan Petter Myklebust

CHINA

Ministry reverses university autonomy in admissions

Yojana Sharma

IRAN-UNITED STATES

Academics decry Trump’s threat to hit cultural sites

Shadi Khan Saif

INDIA

Students, professors seek investigation of violence

Shuriah Niazi

KENYA

Court rules against minister in university leadership tussle

Gilbert Nakweya

ALGERIA

New minister puts damper on switch to English in HE

Azzeddine Bensouiah

AUSTRIA

Universities in support of Fridays for Future movement

Michael Gardner

ZIMBABWE

Curricula review delays intake of first-year students

Kudzai Mashininga

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GLOBAL

HE institutions must learn to adapt to innovate

Patrick Blessinger, Enakshi Sengupta and Mandla Makhanya

The needs of contemporary society are changing and so must higher education. It must adapt to the bio-tech revolution, for instance, and find ways to make innovation work for all people, as well as teaching creative thinking, which now is as important as knowledge acquisition.
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Commentary

GLOBAL

New media, digital literacy and the mechanics of trust

Ibrar Bhatt and Alison MacKenzie

As exploitation of new media makes it harder to distinguish between truth and lies, and fact and fiction, higher education needs to teach students digital literacy and convey the importance of interrogating the different ways that authority and power hide, get hidden and subvert knowledge creation and truth.

GHANA

Social work education needs to be culturally relevant

Fidelia Fredua-Kwarteng

CANADA

Universities must share their oppressive pasts

Evadne Kelly and Carla Rice

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CANADA

Mission to build capacity in Africa has a French twist

Nathan Greenfield

Canada’s University of Ottawa is helping to build capacity in African universities through a dozen African partnerships and by founding an innovation network, but it also sees an opportunity to strengthen its bilingual mission in a continent where French-speaking populations are growing fast.
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Global Challenges

JAPAN

Disaster research refocuses on climate-related flooding

Suvendrini Kakuchi

Natural disaster-prone Japan, which focuses heavily on earthquake-prediction research, technologies and countermeasures, is allocating new funds for building resilience against climate change-related typhoons and flooding, and will also boost flood and earthquake resistance measures as host to the Olympic Games this year.

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HONG KONG