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\n\t\t\t\tAs three more branch campus proposals from the United Kingdom and Australia are approved in India, to be located in Bengaluru and Mumbai, academics have noted that foreign universities are not creating new educational hubs and are mostly strengthening existing centres of economic and academic concentration.
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\t\t\tIn the Times Higher Education, or THE, Impact Ratings 2026, which are geared to assessing institutions\u2019 contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Asian universities dominate the top 10 of the overall category, but the UK dominates number one spots on individual SDGs.<\/p>\n

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Angel Calderon<\/p>\n

\t\t\tTimes Higher Education, or THE, released its now-rebranded Sustainability Impact Ratings, which continue to showcase how universities are working towards addressing the United Nations\u2019 Agenda for Sustainable Development \u2013 and which still rank institutions, with the University of Manchester back top globally, and the number of Asian universities rising.<\/p>\n

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Wagdy Sawahel<\/p>\n

\t\t\tThere is growing institutional engagement with the sustainability agendas in Arab Gulf states, but implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, by universities remains largely shaped by global ranking frameworks and policy imperatives, with only limited evidence of substantive SDG localisation.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tThe bottom line for improving student access and success in higher education, says Dr Jamil Salmi, a renowned global higher education expert, is this: \u201cEliminate the financial barrier.\u201d Possibly Chile\u2019s targeted student tuition-fee system is a way to go, alongside myriad other innovations around access.
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Carlos Vargas<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tSovereignty in an AI domain with little respect for borders is not won by building higher ones. It is won by science systems that collaborate globally while governing locally \u2013 a capacity that doesn\u2019t begin at home and lives in institutions that national AI strategies have reduced to a pipeline: universities.
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Carlos Olivares<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tChile claims to be progressing towards a knowledge economy, but it lacks the structures that would underpin this. The government needs to set clear goals, change how universities reward work to encourage working with businesses and provide strong rewards for sharing knowledge.
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Wagdy Sawahel<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tNew analysis shows that University World News correspondents and expert commentary writers have been cited in thousands of academic publications and policy documents, embedding University World News in scholarly discourse as a trusted reference point for understanding higher education systems and policies and developments worldwide.
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Kalinga Seneviratne<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tConceived by famous Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore as a residential school to help preserve the traditional arts and philosophies of India, Visva-Bharati University is \u2018intimately\u2019 involved in its surrounding communities, working to raise literacy levels, teach entrepreneurship skills and improve villagers\u2019 socio-economic conditions.
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Wilson Odhiambo<\/p>\n

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Fintan Burke<\/p>\n

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Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman Akanbi<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tWhen war erupted in Sudan, Lama Hashim was not only afraid for her safety. She was terrified for the future she had just begun to build. Mere months earlier, the 21-year-old had started her first year in electronics and electrical engineering in Khartoum. Life felt stable, even predictable.
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Brendan O\u2019Malley<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\u2018Leaving no one behind\u2019 is the value infusing all of the United Nations\u2019 Sustainable Development Goals and universities are well placed to combat inequality through research, engagement, widening access and producing graduates ready to be changemakers. But incentives and metrics are needed to reward progress.<\/p>\n

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