University students in Ghana are optimistic that the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, on quality education, gender equality and clean water will be achieved by 2030 - less optimistic about poverty and hunger- writes Gilbert Nakweya universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

HE institutions in the 21st century must leave their ivory towers to form diverse democratic partnerships with other institutions and stakeholders, locally and globally, as agents for democracy, human rights, equity and change- Edwin Naidu reports universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

The number of Ghanaian students issued with visas to study in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia has more than quadrupled to 17,000 over the past five years, according to Meti Basiri- Francis Kokutse reports universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

Young women, refugees, displaced persons and people with disabilities to be beneficiaries of the Transforming African Agricultural Universities to Meaningfully Contribute to Africa’s Growth and Development, or TAGDev, programme- Maina Waruru reports universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

The Salamanca Statement on Special Needs Education; Sustainable Development Goal 4 as well as the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities have all helped to place the focus on persons with disabilities- writes Simon Ngalomba universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

True success in achieving the #SDGs will require innovative thinking, calculated risk-taking and creative problem-solving – skills and qualities that are central to entrepreneurship education- writes Libing Wang universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

According to a statement by Universities of the Netherlands, the dutch government has indicated it will cut higher education and science sector plans by €215 million (US$238 million) per year from 2026- Jan Petter Myklebust reports universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

While China is effectively the superpower in mathematics, science and engineering, the Anglo-American world still reigns supreme in humanities and social sciences- writes Richard Holmes universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

The emergence around the world, at different levels, of new frameworks of reference for #AcademicFreedom is a remarkable recent development that provides many positive signs and reasons for hope- writes Liviu Matei universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

For individuals, the degree offers the choice of a career in industry as a reflective practitioner or a well-earned place in academia- write Raji Sivaraman & Breno Nunes universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

The high percentage of all types of plagiarism in academic papers submitted to ‘hijacked journals’, mostly by scholars based in developing, emerging market and ex-Soviet countries, is posing a very real threat to scientific integrity- Wagdy Sawahel reports universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

A pilot project will offer Francophone students from Africa, the Middle East and the Americas a direct path to Canadian citizenship- Nathan M. Greenfield reports universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

Uproar in Japan over ‘discriminatory’ hike in foreign student fees, Suvendrini Kakuchi reports from Tokyo #globaled #intled #internationalstduents #FineArts #Artschool universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

Could England’s higher education regulator come in from the cold after years of frozen relations with UK universities and the European Standards and Guidelines?- Nic Mitchell reports #Highered #Globaled universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

Uproar in Japan over ‘discriminatory’ hike in foreign student fees, Suvendrini Kakuchi reports from Tokyo #internationalstudents universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

Parental wealth is a major factor in university admissions in South Korea, a Bank of Korea report highlights, proposing an admissions system that reduces bias towards families in Seoul, Yumi Jeung reports universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

There are hopes that a new @ukLabour government will ensure that higher education quality assurance in England can return to international standards, but are they realistic? - Nic Mitchell reports universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

Rural students in Pakistan need support to bridge school-university gap, writes Hamid Ali Khan Eusafzai University of Central Asia universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

Australia's #Internationalstudent caps: A highly bureaucratic approach compared to moves adopted by the UK and Canada, write Gwilym Croucher & Christopher Ziguras University of Melbourne Christopher Ziguras Gwil Croucher 'EduMelb universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

Some foreign professors return to private Pyongyang university after 4-year hiatus due to COVID-19 #PUST #NorthKorea universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…