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INDIA
Shuriah Niazi
As 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.
GULF STATES
Wagdy Sawahel
GLOBAL
Nathan M Greenfield
INDIA
Kalinga Seneviratne
Top Stories
CHINA
Key cities launch full-time training and skills courses
Amber Wang
As another record number of university graduates enter China’s job market this month, authorities are increasingly encouraging both students and unemployed graduates to be ‘re-educated’ through vocational and skills-based ‘technician class’ training programmes that are aimed at improving employment outcomes among young people.
GLOBAL
James Yoonil Auh
PALESTINE
Brendan O’Malley
PALESTINE
Tarek Abd Elgalil
News
UNITED STATES
Nathan M Greenfield
With the release of its report, Trust Agenda: A framework for advancing public trust in higher education, the American Association of Colleges and Universities, or AAC&U, issued a clarion call for America’s almost 6,000 colleges and universities to counter the decades-long decline in trust in higher education.
EGYPT
Wagdy Sawahel
Egyptian universities are expanding their branch campuses in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East in both number and capacity, in a move aimed at promoting higher education development and regional cooperation and extending Egyptian cultural diplomacy in the service of political and economic agendas.
SWEDEN
Jan Petter Myklebust
Paid tuition fees by international students registered in Swedish universities in 2024 and 2025 represent an increase over the past decade of 275%, states a new report. Experts say that this reflects Sweden’s strong position within the global market for international student mobility.
INDIA
Shuriah Niazi
In a major milestone for neuroscience, the Indian Institute of Technology or IIT Madras has unveiled the world’s most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem. While scientists have been researching the brain for decades, the human brainstem had never before been mapped in such intricate detail.
Webinar
GLOBAL
A UWN Reporter
Will developments in AI support the widening of access and strengthen progress towards success in higher education for students from under-represented groups – or exacerbate inequalities? Top global speakers will discuss this issue in a University World News webinar on 25 June at 16:00 hours BST (UTC+1).
Edtech, AI and Higher Education
GLOBAL
Cameron Mirza
A survey of academics and leaders from 46 universities in 25 countries revealed that most remain strikingly unprepared to move from AI ambition to meaningful adoption. Universities need to develop practical pathways that connect strategy, governance, capability building and operational execution into a coherent AI adoption model.
World Blog
EUROPE
Omar Ballester, Maryna Lakhno and Ladina Rageth
Over the past few years, the policy mood across high-income destination countries regarding international students has flipped from expansion to restriction. Policy changes also have a wider impact. Research shows they can also be read as a negative signal for first-generation domestic students.
Academic Publishing
GLOBAL
Wagdy Sawahel
New 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.
SDGs
ASIA
Kalinga Seneviratne
Across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations countries, ministries are increasingly using regional learning data to drive gender-inclusive policy decisions at all levels of education, a process that started in 2024 with a joint declaration aimed at forging a common policy space.
GLOBAL
Stig Arne Skjerven
SOUTH AFRICA
Karin Jacobs and Hanelie Adendorff
RWANDA
Jean d’Amour Mbonyinshuti
Special Report: Education for Sustainable Development XIV – Reducing Inequality
GLOBAL
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10 calls for inequality to be reduced within and among all countries. University World News explores how higher education can contribute to a fairer world through researching and addressing the causes of inequality both in higher education and within society.
GLOBAL
Nathan M Greenfield
GLOBAL
Brendan O’Malley
GLOBAL
Graeme Atherton
INDIA-GLOBAL
Raul Villamarin Rodriguez and Hemachandran Kannan
Universities have a responsibility to preserve opportunities when economic conditions become difficult, and many are now being pushed to rethink how they can remain accessible, credible and socially relevant without transferring every financial shock to the students and families who can least afford it.
UNITED STATES-COLOMBIA
Nathan M Greenfield
A ‘humanitarian engineering’ programme supporting artisanal gold mining, spanning US and Colombian universities, shows how universities can partner internationally and equitably with economically disadvantaged communities to co-define challenges, co-define solutions, and build on local knowledge to support the development of sustainable livelihoods.
AUSTRALIA
Kalinga Seneviratne
GLOBAL
Shuriah Niazi and Brendan O’Malley
Top Stories from Last Week
AUSTRALIA-EUROPE
Shadi Khan Saif
Australia’s conclusion of agreement with the European Union for association with the €93.5 billion (US$108 billion) Horizon Europe programme from 2027 is set to give its researchers access to one of the world’s most powerful collaborative funding systems and the ability to lead projects.
GLOBAL
Evangelos Danopoulos
GLOBAL
Futao Huang
BRAZIL-AFRICA
Wagdy Sawahel
UNITED STATES
Nathan M Greenfield
The United Negro College Fund and the student Jewish life organisation Hillel sponsored 14 ‘Black and Jewish Unity Dinners’ during the last academic year, with future chapters on American college and university campuses planned to spark a shared commitment to social change.
GLOBAL
Francesco Cappé and Maurits van Rooijen
Higher education is not in decline. It is due for a radical upgrade which is already happening in places the traditional system has not yet learned to look. Lifelong education is rapidly taking shape, but there are risks which show the importance of joined-up thinking.
SWEDEN
Jan Petter Myklebust
The Swedish government’s recent strict migration reforms have led to international students fearing being sent home and questioning Sweden’s future as a ‘knowledge nation’, in relation to research policy goals and students’ paths. Stakeholders say Sweden needs to welcome talents – regardless of origin.
QATAR-UNITED STATES
Tarek Abd Elgalil
New agreements between the Qatar Foundation and three historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, in the US aim to expand study-abroad opportunities while also reflecting broader shifts in international student mobility, institutional engagement and cross-cultural exchange between Qatar and the US.