{"id":41829,"date":"2026-05-14T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/41829\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:22:28","slug":"global-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/41829\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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EUROPE<\/p>\n

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Brendan O\u2019Malley<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tThe Council of the European Union has agreed a position on the next Erasmus+ programme for the period 2028 to 2034 that would see a broadening of its remit and of future opportunities for non-EU countries to participate in some activities via \u2018partial association\u2019.
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Brendan O\u2019Malley<\/p>\n

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FINLAND<\/p>\n

Jan Petter Myklebust<\/p>\n

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Inflection point has profound implications for universities<\/p>\n

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James Yoonil Auh<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tIn the AI age, as technical skills become increasingly replicable, their role as a basis for differentiation begins to erode. In their place is an emerging shift towards meaning-based differentiation, where narrative coherence \u2013 what I describe as \u2018having a story\u2019 \u2013 becomes central. There are implications for universities.
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John Aubrey Douglass<\/p>\n

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AFRICA<\/p>\n

Oscar Koopman<\/p>\n

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INDIA<\/p>\n

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Shuriah Niazi<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tWomen now account for more than half \u2013 51.48% \u2013 of the total number of graduates in Indian higher education, and in recent years, female enrolment has consistently outpaced that of men. There are, however, still consistently fewer women in certain disciplinary areas.
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NEPAL<\/p>\n

Binod Ghimire<\/p>\n

\t\t\tIn a sweeping move that Nepal\u2019s new government claims will end politicisation in the sector, the leadership of universities, health academies and various educational governing bodies across the country has been relieved of its responsibilities, leaving a paralysing leadership vacuum at many institutions.<\/p>\n

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AUSTRALIA<\/p>\n

Shadi Khan Saif<\/p>\n

\t\t\tThe convergence of accelerated growth and tighter regulation of transnational education in Australia is intensifying debate in the sector over what offshore campuses are actually for: revenue generation, global brand-building, or an increasingly regulated extension of the country\u2019s higher education system.<\/p>\n

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NETHERLANDS<\/p>\n

Jan Petter Myklebust<\/p>\n

\t\t\tThe Netherlands\u2019 peak universities body says the budgetary allocations announced recently by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science \u2018partially reverse\u2019 the cuts implemented by the last government and mark an important step forward for universities hit by two years of reduced budgets.<\/p>\n

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Edtech, AI and Higher Education<\/p>\n


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ASIA<\/p>\n

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Phuong Nguyen<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tGraduate employability is falling. Generative AI is doing the cognitive work students were meant to do for themselves. The university response \u2013 adding more AI tools \u2013 is on the wrong side of the desk. And AI is now an institutional risk question, not a pedagogical preference.
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Min Bahadur Bista<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tThe mass dismissal of university leadership in Nepal is a reaction to the need for urgent reform, but at the same time it raises concerns about academic freedom, institutional autonomy, shared governance and procedural legitimacy that will affect the system in the longer term.
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Special Report: Education for Sustainable Development XIII \u2013 International Partnerships<\/p>\n


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\n\t\t\t\tHigher education and research collaborations across the world can be key drivers of societal transformation in line with Sustainable Development Goal 17. University World News explores how the distorting effects of unequal resources, unbalanced power dynamics and externally imposed agendas in international partnerships can be addressed.
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AFRICA-GLOBAL<\/p>\n

Dhanjay Jhurry, Fabrizio Trifir\u00f3 and Cato Rolea<\/p>\n

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GLOBAL<\/p>\n

Desmond Thompson<\/p>\n

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JAPAN<\/p>\n

Amane Tsuchimoto<\/p>\n

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COLOMBIA<\/p>\n

Nathan M Greenfield<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tA doctoral seminar on the 10-year anniversary of the end of civil war in Colombia surfaced the lived experience of real actors in the conflict and served as a reminder to US and Colombian academics of the role of communities in peacebuilding and democratic resilience.<\/p>\n

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GLOBAL<\/p>\n

Brendan O\u2019Malley<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUniversity World News talks to Damtew Teferra about the motives behind his proposal for a Global Compact in Research Collaboration, which caused a stir when it was launched in Addis Ababa last month, focusing especially on North-South partnerships \u2013 and what the response has been.<\/p>\n

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GLOBAL<\/p>\n

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INDIA-AUSTRALIA<\/p>\n

Shuriah Niazi<\/p>\n

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SDGs<\/p>\n


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GLOBAL<\/p>\n

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Julio Labra\u00f1a<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tMass HE is not only a story about universities. It is a story about labour markets, political, school and scientific systems \u2013 all of which have been reshaped by placing a single institution at the centre of social mobility, political legitimacy and knowledge production.
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GLOBAL<\/p>\n

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Aslam Fataar<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tA benchmarking engagement across Southeast Asian universities shows how AI is reshaping knowledge and why institutions must respond by redesigning pedagogy, assessment and learning for deeper engagement. The question is how we shape these responses to strengthen the intellectual and public purposes of higher education.
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Ameen Amjad Khan<\/p>\n

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Afeez Bolaji<\/p>\n

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GLOBAL<\/p>\n

Min Bahadur Bista<\/p>\n

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GLOBAL<\/p>\n

James Yoonil Auh<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tMusic education \u2013 and education more broadly \u2013 must be understood not as content delivered, but as systems sustained through relationships. If universities continue to prioritise models built on stability, continuity and selective access, they risk gradually detaching from the realities their students already inhabit.<\/p>\n

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CANADA<\/p>\n

Nathan M Greenfield<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tMemorial University in Canada has defended the exclusion of white heterosexual men from its call for applicants for federally funded national research chair positions as part of the programme\u2019s diversity and inclusion requirements that attempt to meet national equity targets and address system barriers in hiring.<\/p>\n

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SOUTH AFRICA<\/p>\n

Sioux McKenna<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tSouth Africa\u2019s Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, withdrew the country\u2019s Draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy after it emerged that the document contained fictitious sources in its reference list. For universities, this is a teachable moment about critical AI literacy.<\/p>\n

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