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UNITED STATES
Nathan M Greenfield
The US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has maintained the suspension of the higher education provisions of Florida’s Orwellian-named Individual Freedom Act (IFA), a classroom censorship law in Florida that banned teaching about race, sex and gender.
EUROPE
Jan Petter Myklebust
ASIA-PACIFIC ISLANDS
Nathan M Greenfield
GLOBAL
Nathan M Greenfield and Suvendrini Kakuchi
GLOBAL
Kalinga Seneviratne
GULF STATES-AFRICA
Wagdy Sawahel
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UNITED STATES
New foreign enrolment down 24% in graduate programmes
John Aubrey Douglass
On the anniversary of United States President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, intended to reduce tuition fees, it is clear that the long-term impact on higher education will be a decline in graduate education enrolment, in talent development, in the US’s science capabilities and the nation’s economic competitiveness.
GLOBAL
Engela Duvenage
UNITED STATES
Richard T Herman
FRANCE
Barbara Casassus
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INDIA-UNITED STATES
Shuriah Niazi
The Indian Institute of Technology, or IIT, Bombay will launch its first overseas sub-campus in the United States in collaboration with the State University of New York at Old Westbury. This marks the first time an IIT will run its own academic programmes on American soil.
GLOBAL
Nathan M Greenfield
MIDDLE EAST
Tarek Abd Elgalil
GLOBAL
Wagdy Sawahel
Field-Weighted Citation Impact, which is used to represent research quality in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject, can be exploited strategically for maximising measured performance, rather than true research quality, according to a new study.
GERMANY
Michael Gardner
Universities and representatives of student bodies attending the 2026 Members’ Assembly of the German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD, have adopted a resolution emphasising the considerable importance of academic links with the Global South and criticising federal plans to terminate DAAD funding for such cooperation.
UNITED KINGDOM
Brendan O’Malley
UK academic qualifications have proved vital to the careers of the majority of international students, according to a new survey, with more than 73% of them requiring their UK qualification to obtain their current job – and 70% securing a relevant job within six months.
NORWAY
Jan Petter Myklebust
Edtech, AI and Higher Education
GLOBAL
Alara Tascioglu
Universities have largely settled the question of whether to adopt AI. The challenge now is governing its use. A new framework, developed at ESCP Business School’s first AI in Higher Education Summit, sets out how to combine governance, deployment and teaching redesign to use AI responsibly at scale.
World Blog
GLOBAL
Waseem Hassan and Fred Paas
The university of the future, especially in financially constrained systems, should be a place people return throughout their lives with a mission that is more inclusive and socially useful. Graduates expect clearer routes into work, and technological change is reshaping the skills people need.
SDGs
GLOBAL
James Yoonil Auh
For decades, the dominant narrative in international development has been framed as a matter of increasing resource distribution. However, culture should now be considered as a key pillar in any developmental agendas, with universities uniquely positioned at the intersection of culture and development.
Top Stories from Last Week
KENYA
Wilson Odhiambo
Three fourth-year students in mining and mineral processing engineering at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya – Ian Ngumbau Wambua, Shaneal Mumbi, and Ruth Afandi Igunza – have devised a way to process minerals without requiring water, a key component in the mining industry.
INDIA
Shuriah Niazi
GLOBAL
Min Bahadur Bista
GLOBAL
Nathan M Greenfield
PALESTINE-SOUTH AFRICA
Divinia Jithoo, Alia Gilbrecht-Hendi and Francesca Helm
In moments of global crisis, academic communities often turn to the tools of dialogue, exchange and engagement. However, higher education should not be co-opted into normalising what is happening in Gaza. Universities must commit to transforming unjust systems through collective action.
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.
GLOBAL
Karen MacGregor
The bottom line for improving student access and success in higher education, says Dr Jamil Salmi, a renowned global higher education expert, is this: “Eliminate the financial barrier.” Possibly Chile’s targeted student tuition-fee system is a way to go, alongside myriad other innovations around access.
GLOBAL
Angel Calderon
Times Higher Education, or THE, released its now-rebranded Sustainability Impact Ratings, which continue to showcase how universities are working towards addressing the United Nations’ Agenda for Sustainable Development – and which still rank institutions, with the University of Manchester back top globally, and the number of Asian universities rising.