Global Edition

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.

Employment conditions often mirror those in a gig economy

Min Bahadur Bista

The rise of adjunctification in higher education around the world signals how universities have become less about a stable community of scholars and moved more towards a corporate model organised around the delivery of services from temporary, part-time and contract-based academic labour.

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.

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.

Carlos Vargas

Sovereignty in an AI domain with little respect for borders is not won by building higher ones. It is won by science systems that collaborate globally while governing locally – a capacity that doesn’t begin at home and lives in institutions that national AI strategies have reduced to a pipeline: universities.

Carlos Olivares

Chile claims to be progressing towards a knowledge economy, but it lacks the structures that would underpin this. The government needs to set clear goals, change how universities reward work to encourage working with businesses and provide strong rewards for sharing knowledge.

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.

Kalinga Seneviratne

Conceived by famous Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore as a residential school to help preserve the traditional arts and philosophies of India, Visva-Bharati University is ‘intimately’ involved in its surrounding communities, working to raise literacy levels, teach entrepreneurship skills and improve villagers’ socio-economic conditions.

Jean d’Amour Mbonyinshuti

When war erupted in Sudan, Lama Hashim was not only afraid for her safety. She was terrified for the future she had just begun to build. Mere months earlier, the 21-year-old had started her first year in electronics and electrical engineering in Khartoum. Life felt stable, even predictable.