Universities are ‘key enabler of all SDGs’, UN platform instructed
Nathan M Greenfield
A consensus assertion on larger training’s function in “Building Sustainable Futures” has been permitted by the contributors within the Global Higher Education Symposium 2026, held on the sidelines of the UN’s High-Level Political Forum 2026 and evaluation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
INDIA
Shuriah Niazi
PALESTINE
Tarek Abd Elgalil
SOUTH AFRICA
Imraan Valodia
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AUSTRALIA
Shadi Khan Saif
Australia’s choice to triple the price of its worldwide scholar visa charge to assist restrict migration has triggered concern throughout the upper training sector, with universities and analysts warning the transfer might weaken the nation’s attraction in an more and more aggressive international scholar market.
SOUTH AFRICA-EUROPE
Desmond Thompson
UNITED KINGDOM
Brendan O’Malley
A 3rd of PhD college students are dissatisfied with profession steerage from their supervisors, at a time when educational roles are usually not preserving tempo with the rise within the variety of PhDs, in line with a brand new report, printed by the Higher Education Policy Institute within the United Kingdom.
GLOBAL
A UWN Reporter
The Association of Commonwealth Universities – with 400 member universities in 40 international locations – and the Institute of Leadership have introduced a brand new strategic partnership designed to strengthen management functionality throughout larger training and equip universities to navigate an more and more complicated and quickly altering international setting.
GERMANY-CUBA
Michael Gardner
ZaPF, an organisation representing departmental scholar councils in physics and associated topics in German-speaking international locations in Europe, has printed a decision opposing the tightening of sanctions by the United States in opposition to Cuba, the nation with the very best share of presidency spending on training on this planet.
Edtech, AI and Higher Education
GLOBAL
Muhammad Aamir Cheema
AI has stripped away the hassle it as soon as took to supply an instructional paper, and with ‘publish or perish’ pressures, it’s driving continual over-publication. The uncomfortable response could possibly be to restrict what number of papers every educational can publish, shifting focus from output in the direction of the standard of scholarly work.
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CHINA
Cheryl Yu
Transnational training, or TNE, in China is altering and operates in another way in numerous establishments and areas. It continues to draw worldwide universities however requires long-term dedication and a willingness to continue to learn. In easy phrases, we be taught by doing, observing, pondering after which making an attempt once more.
SDGs
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Birgit Schreiber, Nomalanga Mpofu Hamadziripi and Stephen Simukanga
A brand new landmark regional research by the Southern African Regional Universities Association requires bolder management and nationwide funding to rework analysis and advance societally impactful analysis within the Southern African Development Community, or SADC. The research can be a name to centre African data.
EUROPE
Saygi Ünlü
Sustainability is now all over the place in larger training. It has already entered the standard assurance agenda, however the response have to be fastidiously calibrated. If it’s too weak, sustainability can be superficial. If it’s too strict, it would change into one more compliance train.
AFRICA
Ngotho Gichuru
Transparent, simply and merit-based promotion methods are usually not only a matter of human useful resource retention: they’re about African universities’ means to retain the intellectuals who’re in a position to form their graduates, their institutional futures and the way forward for the continent.
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GLOBAL
Mohammad M Rahman
For many years the dominant story of upper training has been considered one of enlargement. However, it’s now getting into a structural section of contraction. To climate this modification requires management that’s prepared to behave early on the completely different selections out there to them.
CANADA
Rosemary Salomone
GLOBAL
James Yoonil Auh
EUROPE
Anna Przybylo-Józefowicz
GLOBAL
Nathan M Greenfield and Suvendrini Kakuchi
Do cross-sectoral collaborations – with trade, authorities, the army or civil society – actually serve the mission of the college, or do they perturb the college? Renowned chemist Jay Siegel put the query to panellists on the Association of Pacific Rim Universities Annual Presidents’ Meeting.
EUROPE
Rebecka Lettevall, Annika Olsson and Andrea Petö
The concept of a unified and broadly aligned educational group defending educational freedom in opposition to exterior threats is deceptive. It denies the fact of the ideological, skilled and generational divisions that basically form how educational freedom is skilled. Acknowledging that makes us stronger.
INDIA
Shuriah Niazi
In a significant effort to spice up India’s analysis capabilities and encourage high scientists of Indian origin to return from overseas, the federal government has launched the Prime Minister Research Chair Scheme providing substantial analysis funding, fellowships and institutional help to draw achieved researchers.
AFRICA
Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis
The gradual withdrawal of development-oriented funding by the German Academic Exchange Service, or DAAD, has understandably generated concern throughout universities in Africa and past. Much of the talk has centered on what Africa stands to lose. That concern is justified. Yet, maybe we’re asking the unsuitable query.
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