{"id":256830,"date":"2026-05-28T15:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/256830\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:01:41","slug":"global-edition-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/256830\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wagdy Sawahel<\/p>\n


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Deep concern over shift away from development goals<\/p>\n

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Michael Gardner and Brendan O\u2019Malley<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tDrastic budget cuts announced by Germany\u2019s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development will seriously affect the country\u2019s international academic links and threaten a key pillar of Germany\u2019s foreign science policy and development cooperation, the German Academic Exchange Service, or DAAD, has warned.
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Amber Wang<\/p>\n

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Binod Ghimire<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tIn a major crackdown against education consultancies allegedly defrauding students aspiring to pursue higher studies abroad, Nepal police on 15 May raided 95 such operators and arrested 69 people in Kathmandu Valley, an area in central Nepal that includes the capital city.
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Brendan O\u2019Malley<\/p>\n

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AUSTRALIA<\/p>\n

Shadi Khan Saif<\/p>\n

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GLOBAL<\/p>\n

Jan Petter Myklebust<\/p>\n

\t\t\tA newly published open access book on university governance explores the increasingly complex challenges in governing and managing contemporary universities and demonstrates how institutions can best respond to changing social, economic and political dynamics to ensure their efficient operation and continued growth.<\/p>\n

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Jan Petter Myklebust<\/p>\n

\t\t\tAcademics have welcomed the approval by the Swedish parliament of new rules governing the entry and presence of foreign researchers, doctoral students and other students in the country, due to come into effect on 11 June. They improve opportunities to gain residence permits.<\/p>\n

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Shuriah Niazi<\/p>\n

\t\t\tAcademics involved in a study tracking the use by a traditional tribe in Assam of medicinal plants with potential pharmaceutical value say scientific validation must be ethical, with indigenous communities receiving recognition, intellectual property protection and economic benefits from any commercial use.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tUniversity World News is hosting a webinar on 25 June on one of the major global challenges facing universities today: how to engage with the millions of potential students from low-income and other backgrounds that make higher education participation less likely.
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Min Bahadur Bista<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tGraduation ceremonies reveal the emotional condition of societies. They expose the moral assumptions institutions expect young people to celebrate publicly. When graduates reject those assumptions in one of the most symbolically important rituals of civic life, that rejection deserves our attention.
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Aslam Fataar<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe AI experiences of a leading Southeast Asian university demonstrate that institutions need not choose between technological surrender and reactionary resistance. It is possible to build adaptive ecosystems that combine regulation with experimentation, ethical reflection with innovation, and institutional coordination with disciplinary flexibility.<\/p>\n

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Robert Mason, Rikard Jalkebro and Ziad Hani<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe future of academic integrity will depend less on identifying AI and more on understanding human learning and developing policies that cater to it. Higher education\u2019s most effective response to artificial intelligence may ultimately be the oldest educational principle of all: know your students.<\/p>\n

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Michael Quinn<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tA project co-hosted by two universities is giving young Palestinian writers a platform to share their work and express their experiences in creative ways, ensuring the lived experiences of students whose lives have been irrevocably altered by conflict are heard around the world.
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Nathan M Greenfield<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tHow can international offices plan strategically amid shifting geopolitical tensions, changing visa regimes and changing student flows around the world? A new book published by NAFSA explores the complexities that have to be negotiated and the critical competencies required to achieve institutional success.
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Anette Wu, Cecilia Brassett, Jan L\u00fcdert and Alexander Preker<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tThere has been little intentional effort to raise the awareness of science diplomacy among medical students, but their inclusion as stakeholders in science diplomacy is a promising approach to promoting global collaboration and reducing national isolationism in light of modern geopolitical conflicts.
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Geoffrey Williams<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tA new law prioritising locally educated medical graduates for eligibility for the UK Foundation Programme, the bridge to full medical council registration and access to National Health Service careers, upends the lives of 850 Malaysian students and threatens the \u2018equivalence\u2019 claim underpinning UK TNE.
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Borhene Chakroun, Vanja Gutovic and Mathias Bouckaert<\/p>\n

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Amber Wang<\/p>\n

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Rebecka Lettevall, Annika Olsson and Andrea Peto<\/p>\n

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Wagdy Sawahel<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tWhile the decline of single-author publications is often attributed to greater scientific collaboration and research complexity, a new study highlights evidence that suggests that systemic publication pressures and metric-based evaluation systems have also created incentives for \u2018strategic co-authorship\u2019 practices that undermine research integrity.<\/p>\n

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Brendan O\u2019Malley<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tParliament\u2019s Education Committee has criticised the government for having no plan for universities facing insolvency and inadequate protection for students, as \u2018unprecedented financial pressures\u2019 mount on universities, risking severe consequences, including institutional closures and severe damage to the UK\u2019s global academic reputation.<\/p>\n

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