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Catch the latest offerings in the UWN Commentary Hub: 🗣Foreign medical education: Widespread. Unknown. Unregulated - Philip Altbach and Hans (J.W.M.) de Wit 👤China’s unique path to scientific and technological power - Caroline S Wagner 🗣 Greece enters the qualifications fold: Why it’s remarkable - Sjur Bergan 👤Presidential election rhetoric poses ongoing concern for HE - Holly Buttrey 🗣 Mentorship programmes: A vital part of student success - Salman Haq Access these and other commentaries: https://lnkd.in/dKueyDVb #highered #universities #mentorship #students #qualifications #science #medstudents

🆙 UK: Putting up tuition - 'even by £500 to £9,750' - was 'only marginally less unpopular than the supervised tooth brushing for 3-to-5 year-olds' that the Labour leader proposed during the general election campaign, according to public polling. (Jim Dickinson, Wonkhe) In this UWN story, Nic Mitchell makes suggestions the UK's Labour government might like to consider on how to fix what he terms the #highered financial ‘black-hole’. He argues, 'there may be better (more politically acceptable) ideas floating around than just putting up the headline tuition fee!' #universities #studentfees #studentrecruitment Universities UK Shitij Kapur King's College London John Rushforth Rt Hon Rachel Reeves David Willetts Diana Beech Johnny Rich Office for Students Sally Mapstone Jacqui Smith Keir Starmer

🌱🌐🏗🐛 In advance of the United Nations #SummitOfTheFuture, we publish the latest in our series of special reports on #highered and #sustainability - with a focus this time on how ‘learning organisations’ that are innovative and adaptable are helping to advance education for sustainable development worldwide. 🌿 Global: Learning organisations help to advance sustainability in HE - Patrick Blessinger, Abhilasha Singh, Prof. M. Bhaskara Rao & Mirela Panait 🌿 Global: Education for sustainable development’s global learning space - Karen McGregor 🌿 Japan: The Okayama ESD model, embedded in tradition and ‘kominkan’ - suvendrini kakuchi 🌿 India: New fellows partnership to train an army of climate warriors - Swaha Sahoo 🌿 Germany: Three decades of sustainability at Leuphana University Lüneburg - Karen McGregor 🌿 Canada: Victoria broadens climate focus to embrace sustainability Keith Nuthall and Andreia Nogueira See the full Special Report: https://lnkd.in/d4uMDNxM #Agenda2030 #SDGs #universities #ESD #learning #teaching #pedagogy Leuphana University of Lüneburg Okayama University ABET Atsufumi Yokoi FRSA UNESCO Keiko Hattori Hiroko Shibakawa The University of British Columbia Stellenbosch University The University of Georgia Imperial College London Arizona State University UN University – Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability Miki Konishi Betsy King International Association of Universities COPERNICUS Alliance - European Network on Higher Education for Sustainable Development Ubuntu Alliance Evance Ouya Oriana Silva Paridhi Mishra Anjan Das Gautam Menon Dr.leena James Prabhat Pankaj Kevin Hall Daniel Fischer

“One in two students say that they weren’t heard by their universities, that there was no response. That’s now about to change and that’s the purpose of this new National Student Ombudsman.” (Australia's Minister for Education Jason Clare MP) Australia's planned National Student Ombudsman will allow #highered #students to escalate complaints about the actions of their institution – including complaints about #sexual harassment, #assault and #violence – and promote best practice across the sector. Flanked by anti-sexual violence activists, the country’s education minister at a press conference on 11 September announced the introduction of the legislation to establish the office of the ombudsman, which will begin receiving complaints by February 2025, subject to the smooth passage of the legislation through parliament. “The evidence is clear; it’s been clear for a long time. Survey results show that one in 20 students at university has been sexually assaulted. One in six sexually harassed. And when the worst happens, too many of those students are let down by the system. The system has failed them,” Clare said. The minister’s announcement comes on the heels of a parliamentary inquiry into national #consent laws last year, during which victim-survivors detailed harrowing experiences on campuses. As per the proposed legislation, the National Student Ombudsman will have the powers to investigate complaints about a broad range of issues. While some have welcomed the development, others have been critical of “another major increase in higher education regulation”. Shadi Khan Saif reports. 👁️🗨️👁️🗨️Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/d3ZRi_r6 #studentsupport #mentalhealth #sexualviolence #universities #regulation Universities Australia Sharna Bremner End Rape on Campus Australia Camille Schloeffel The STOP Campaign Luke Sheehy Andrew Norton The Australian National University

#Universities need a new generation of visionary leaders, urge Thomas Estermann & María Blanco Palencia of the European University Association (EUA). It may not always be a simple endeavour, but universities have a responsibility to nurture #leadership within their institutions to ensure #sustainable success and long-term #resilience, argue the authors. It is this very imperative that has led the EUA to develop a pioneering Leadership Development Programme (to run in 2025), designed to equip university leaders with the tools they need to thrive. The first cohort will bring together up to 20 senior leaders from EUA member universities within a dynamic and collaborative environment. Here, they will build leadership capabilities, enriched by shared experiences and a strong #European perspective. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts in #highered and dive into the latest #research-informed and cutting-edge European higher education trends. Finally, the first cohort will tackle leadership challenges in transversal institutional transformations, such as European Universities #alliances, institutional strategies for sustainability, the #digital transition or #equity, #diversity and #inclusion. Participants will also jointly address leadership dilemmas around the major transformational challenges and opportunities for European higher education today. 📌 Read the full story in UWN: https://lnkd.in/gnzkXgX2 📌 The call for participation in the programme is open until 24 October 2024. Find more info here: https://lnkd.in/gf_H6YAm 📌 Info webinar: If you would like to learn more or ask any questions, you can join a dedicated webinar on 18 Sept 2024, from 14.00-14.45 (CEST). Webinar link here: https://lnkd.in/gEs6HgvQ 📌 Enquiries about participation in the pilot programme: eualead@eua.eu

💡 29 keen #highered minds bringing you 25 cutting-edge higher education stories: news updates, commentaries and analysis, features, and World Blog...It must be the latest edition of University World News Global. As always, read, engage, share, comment, and please let us know your thoughts. Thank you. 🙏 #universities #research Nic Mitchell Yojana Sharma wagdy sawahel Liz Newmark Jan Myklebust Amber Wang Shuriah Niazi Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman Kafil Yamin Dinesh De Alwis Francis Kokutse James Yoonil Auh Thomas Estermann María Blanco Palencia Jenny Lee Giorgio Marinoni Dr Chetan Singai Bassem Kaissi Nathan Greenfield Marcelo Knobel Néri Barros Almeida د.مصطفى شاذلي مصطفى Mustafa Shazali Mustafa Ahmed Kalinga Seneviratne Nuraan Davids John Walshe Elias Ngalame TR Kumaraswamy Clemence Charindapanze Manyukwe

🌱 🏗 🌿 The environmental emergency is real, urge physicist Marcelo Knobel and historian Néri Barros Almeida. And #highered is our best hope. The realisation that a significant portion of society has not yet understood the seriousness of these changes, and that the issue has not been accorded the absolute priority it deserves, makes one despair, argue the authors. Their intention in this commentary (which was previously published in The Conversation) is not to present solutions to this #systemic problem of planetary dimensions, but to discuss the potential of a #privileged agent of #transformation: #universities and other higher education institutions (#HEIs). They unpack the reasons for and ways in which HEIs can assume their role as 'strategic focal points' for tackling the environmental emergency we are experiencing. 🐛 Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/dQ7tfJ-D #research #humanrights #climatechange #climateemergency #science #knowledge #commongood #sustainability #justice #ecology #environment Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) UNESCO

'It has never been this political in all of my 40 years in higher education.' (David Pilsbury, chief development officer at the UK's Oxford International Education Group) 'I have never seen the intensity of focus, and it's only going to get worse across all dimensions of our activity. Immigration, funding and academic freedom issues are just the beginning,' continued Pilsbury. Nic Mitchell reports on a webinar workshop for global #universities this week, hosted by Studyportals, the Dutch-based global study choice platform used by around 50 million #international #students to find English-language #study programmes abroad. The subject was: ‘Who wins when everybody seems to be losing? Strategies for surviving the Great Policy Backlash’. Among other issues, this UWN story discusses: 📌 The need for international student #recruitment to be agile and adaptable 📌 The importance of universities learning from successful rivals and focusing beyond #enrolment 📌 The importance of considering relevant graduate #employment 📌 The importance of the US as a 'sleeping giant' 📌 High denial rate of #visas for the Global South (particularly India) #highered #immigration #academicfreedom #intled #TNE #studyabroad #agility Edwin van Rest The Group of Eight Jill Blondin Virginia Commonwealth University

🌎 🌏 🌍 University internationalisation is not a one-size outfit, comment Jenny Lee & Giorgio Marinoni in this UWN story. While universities throughout the world are advancing #internationalisation efforts, these efforts vary in importance, scope and activity. The authors highlight some differences as scholars, policy-makers and university staff seek to advance internationalisation, while also considering the diversity of internationalisation approaches. Recently, the International Association of Universities’ (IAU) 6th Global Survey Report on Internationalization of Higher Education: Current trends and future scenarios reported some broad global #trends, while noting regional variations. (📌 Find the full copy of that IAU report here: https://lnkd.in/gDiUphmM ) Most notably, the US is an outlier for reasons that have to do with the country’s global positioning and market-based financial model, with limited governmental appropriations for universities. As explained in the book, US Power in International Higher Education, internationalisation does not operate on a level playing field and #soft power shapes the direction and magnitude of university internationalisation activities. The IAU report confirms the dominance of the US’s role while also shedding further light on the ways US internationalisation operates in contrast to the rest of the world. 📌 Read the full story in UWN: https://lnkd.in/dJQa8S-F #highered #universities #TNE #intled #studyabroad #students #studentrecruitment Gerardo Blanco Hans (J.W.M.) de Wit Siro B. Pina Cardona Roopa Trilokekar Professor Ellen Hazelkorn Brendan Cantwell Chrystal A. George Mwangi, PhD Sean Jung-Hau Chen Pempho Chinkondenji, Ph.D. Dale LaFleur, PhD Christina Yao Chris Glass Sharon Stein Santiago Castiello-Gutiérrez, Ph.D.

👁👁 The new University World News Africa Edition is out! We bring you 20 Africa-related and Africa-relevant stories from top #highered thinkers on themes as diverse as: 💡 #climate #research 💡#decolonisation 💡undeclared #racism 💡#universities' role in nurturing #Olympians and #Paralympians 💡#language of #teaching and #learning 💡university #leadership 💡#student support services 💡#biotechnology and food security 💡a role for #quality assurance in war-torn contexts 💡global student #recruitment 💡#innovative universities 💡boosting African #literature and the love of #reading 💡the role of academic #salaries in boosting #quality Our contributors this week include: 💡Desmond Thompson 💡Scovian Lillian 💡Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman 💡Nuraan Davids 💡Francis Kokutse 💡Olabisi Deji-Folutile (PhD) 💡wagdy sawahel 💡Zachariah Mushawatu 💡Alberto Leny 💡Gilbert Nakweya Bsc (Moi), MA (UoN) 💡Hans (J.W.M.) de Wit 💡Isak Frumin 💡Dara Melnyk 💡Abebaw Yirga Adamu 💡Peter Mucanga 💡Clemence Charindapanze Manyukwe 💡Elias Ngalame 💡Wilson Odhiambo As always, read, engage, comment, share and please let us know your thoughts. Thank you.