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Brendan O\u2019Malley<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tThe government of the United Kingdom has announced new rules that allow expansion of its highly skilled talent route but restrict the time allowed for international students to find a graduate-level job and raise the English language requirements for migrants to A-level equivalent. \n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n

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This is lowest level since height of COVID pandemic<\/p>\n

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Nathan M Greenfield<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tThe United States is experiencing its lowest level of international student interest in studying for a masters degree in over five years owing to regulatory and policy changes beyond the sector\u2019s control, raising fears of a longer-term shift that will be difficult to reverse. \n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n

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Brendan O\u2019Malley<\/p>\n

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Nathan M Greenfield<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tThe Trump administration\u2019s compact offered to nine elite US universities has provoked alarm among higher education leaders. It demands surrender of academic freedom and curbs on international recruitment in return for federal funding, a Faustian pact borrowing from the authoritarian playbook of Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n. \n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n

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Ameen Amjad Khan<\/p>\n

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Yojana Sharma<\/p>\n

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Jan Petter Myklebust<\/p>\n

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Desmond Thompson<\/p>\n

\t\t\tA three-year extension of the South Africa-Sweden University Forum has been launched, marking the start of a new phase that aims to deepen academic partnerships, expand intra-African collaboration and strengthen student mobility \u2013 even as international funding pressures raise questions about the sustainability of such initiatives.<\/p>\n

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Andreia Nogueira<\/p>\n

\t\t\tThe higher education system of Africa\u2019s least populous country \u2013 the Indian Ocean archipelago of Seychelles \u2013 is increasingly reaching out to universities across Africa to explore possibilities for partnerships with a view to expanding its educational offerings, strengthening its competitiveness and attracting more students.<\/p>\n

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Wagdy Sawahel<\/p>\n

\t\t\tThe Moroccan School of Engineering Sciences \u2013 the country\u2019s first officially recognised private engineering school \u2013 is to open a branch in the capital of Mauritania, Nouakchott, marking a milestone in Mauritania-Morocco bilateral academic cooperation and offering a model for intra-Africa higher education cooperation.<\/p>\n

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GLOBAL<\/p>\n\n
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Peter Salden<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tIdeologically preset large language models, as perfect tools for subliminal manipulation, threaten intellectual sovereignty and should be of particular concern to academia, where free thought is essential. But there are steps that universities can take towards AI sovereignty to prevent the worst effects. \n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe rise of large language models presents a compelling response to the logistical challenges of student assessment, offering efficiency and consistency at an unprecedented scale. But before adopting such systems in high-stakes educational contexts, we need to reduce variations between models and improve alignment with human judgements.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tA study using machine learning has revealed that around 10% of cancer research papers published in the past 25 years \u2013 including those in the top 10% of journals by impact factor \u2013 share title and abstract features with retracted paper mill papers. In recent years the proportion has soared to 15%.<\/p>\n

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Mark Sterling and Lia Blaj-Ward<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tA new book reminds us that academic citizenship is not what academic colleagues do in addition to teaching and research, but something that is firmly at the core of academic work, and benefits communities within institutions as well as the wider society. \n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n

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Min Bahadur Bista<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tGlobal patterns show that widening participation in higher education does not guarantee completion. As enrolment expands, policy-makers must recognise that large numbers of students leave without a credential, threatening both equity and economic productivity. The policy focus must shift from access alone to access plus success. \n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n

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Wilson Odhiambo<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tThe latest Scholars at Risk academic freedom report details how pressure on institutional autonomy and academic freedom in authoritarian states has combined with \u2018historic levels\u2019 of pressure on academia in liberal democracies, principally the United States, aimed at long-term control by anti-democratic forces. \n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n

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Lingfei Zhao and Wei Liu<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tIn contrast to United States government policies that seek to deter the flow of international talent, the Chinese government has rolled out a comprehensive set of measures to advance internationalisation of its universities, and is advancing these measures in a systematic way.<\/p>\n

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Elizia Volkmann<\/p>\n

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Nic Mitchell<\/p>\n

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