Israeli military attacks worsen Lebanese university crises
Ministry’s emergency plan has UNESCO support
Two months of Israeli military attacks on Lebanon – an escalation of a year-long conflict with Shia militant group Hezbollah – has hit higher education hard. The impact is all the worse given that universities have been struggling with financial and economic problems for five years, as Paul Cochrane reports. Read the full story.
Thousands of professors join call for president to resign
Yumi Jeung reports thousands of university professors across S Korea have put their names to statements and declarations questioning the competence of President Yoon Suk Yeol and calling for his resignation amid a mood of national disillusionment. Read the full story.
Amid diversity, a common space for sustainability emerges
A common space for sustainable development in higher education will offer many benefits and will build resilience, adaptability and interconnectedness among the Southeast Asian region’s higher education institutions – but cultural and economic differences between nations also present some challenges for the process. Kalinga Seneviratne reports. Read the full story.
Calls for new world order based on ‘harmony-in-diversity’
From the International Association of Universities 2024 International Conference, suvendrini kakuchi reports. Read the full story.
Peace education is now urgent, say university leaders
Experts call for a shift of mindset on AI among academics
Universities risk becoming tinned food with an expiry date
When the university goes global and universal (instead of international), it is transformed into an institution without a home and a democratic role. Situated knowledge is exchanged for competence that anyone could produce anywhere – and the university becomes a commodity on the global market, argue Rebecka Lettevall , Annika Olsson & Peto Andrea . Read the full story.
Students enjoy digital learning, so let’s use it effectively
Increased use of digital learning tools does not always translate into improved academic achievement, writes Dr. Gerardo Reyes , but the overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards the tools suggest that they are impacting other aspects of learning that are also important to students, such as course satisfaction. Read the full story.
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Annual staff performance reviews don’t have to be dreaded
The aim of the staff performance planning, development and review process is to create a positive culture of feedback and improvement. The overall result should yield benefits not only to the staff member and the organisational unit but to the university as a whole, urges nita temmerman PhD . Read the full story in World Blog.
Why precarity doesn’t have to be the higher education norm
A new UNESCO report challenges the perception of the ‘academic precariat’ as an unavoidable feature of higher education and the linking of hostile workplaces to strictly individual or cultural factors. It highlights how government policies and institutional good practices have made a positive difference, as Victoria Galan-Muros, PhD & Jaime Roser report. Read the full story.
Also in the latest University World News Global Edition, the following stories - and more:
GLOBAL: Returning graduates do give back, but need more support - Maia Chankseliani, Zhe Wang, Natalya Hanley (nee Kan), PhD, Joonghyun Kwak, Ilka Vari-Lavoisier, Lorena Sanchez Tyson, PhD & Ahmad Akkad, PhD
UZBEKISTAN: Uzbekistan is third-biggest source of foreign students - Nic Mitchell
INDIA: ‘Game-changing’ journal access scheme to launch in January - Shuriah Niazi
NETHERLANDS: HE funding fears mount as calls to reverse cuts are rejected - Laura Syrett
NORWAY: Cutting NORPART is an ‘attack’ on HE internationalisation - Jan Myklebust
GLOBAL: Disappointed by AI in student recruitment? Try back-end apps - Rachel Fletcher
W AFRICA-UK: UK university opens its first African S&T hub in Ghana - wagdy sawahel
US: 95% of Black, Latinx and Indigenous students highly value HE - Nathan Greenfield
AFRICA: Green technology training could curb unemployment in Africa - Elias Ngalame
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