{"id":334686,"date":"2026-07-09T18:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334686\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:27:23","slug":"global-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334686\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\tThe US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has maintained the suspension of the higher education provisions of Florida\u2019s Orwellian-named Individual Freedom Act (IFA), a classroom censorship law in Florida that banned teaching about race, sex and gender.
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Nathan M Greenfield<\/p>\n

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Nathan M Greenfield and Suvendrini Kakuchi<\/p>\n

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Kalinga Seneviratne<\/p>\n

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New foreign enrolment down 24% in graduate programmes<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tOn the anniversary of United States President Donald Trump\u2019s 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\u2019s science capabilities and the nation\u2019s economic competitiveness.
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Shuriah Niazi<\/p>\n


\n\t\t\t\tThe 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.
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Tarek Abd Elgalil<\/p>\n

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Wagdy Sawahel<\/p>\n

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Michael Gardner<\/p>\n

\t\t\tUniversities and representatives of student bodies attending the 2026 Members\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

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Brendan O\u2019Malley<\/p>\n

\t\t\tUK 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 \u2013 and 70% securing a relevant job within six months.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tUniversities 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\u2019s first AI in Higher Education Summit, sets out how to combine governance, deployment and teaching redesign to use AI responsibly at scale.
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\n\t\t\t\tThe 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.
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\n\t\t\t\tFor 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.
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\n\t\t\t\tThree fourth-year students in mining and mineral processing engineering at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya \u2013 Ian Ngumbau Wambua, Shaneal Mumbi, and Ruth Afandi Igunza \u2013 have devised a way to process minerals without requiring water, a key component in the mining industry.
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Karen MacGregor<\/p>\n

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\n\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.<\/p>\n

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\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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