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“I think we need to demonstrate and explain to the public why healthy & strong universities benefit them too. Maybe we need a new concerted public case for academic freedom and for fundamental values and why the entire society benefits from it.” EUA Deputy SG Monika Steinel @uniworldnews.bsky.social
Magna Charta signatories top 1,000 amid growing threats
A Swedish university became the 1,000th signatory to the Magna Charta Universitatum on 13 November at a global convening of university leaders in Lond...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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With China’s ambition to become a space power, #HongKong wants to ride its coat-tails, inaugurating a new #astronomy institute at #HKU this month, @yojanasharma.bsky.social reports from Hong Kong
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Hong Kong reaches for the stars in new astronomy drive
A new astronomy and astrophysics institute led by a China-born astronomer recently returned from the United States, bolsters Hong Kong’s position as...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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"When the federal government conditions research grants, accreditation, financial aid funds and the ability to admit certain students on ideological adherence, it threatens #academicfreedom and practice", @aacu.org President Lynn Pasquerella tells @uniworldnews.bsky.social.

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Trump poses ‘existential threat’ to HE and democracy
The Trump administration’s push against universities and science is posing an ‘existential threat’ to higher education and democracy and is tran...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Universities association suspends Al-Falah University as faculty members, doctors investigated by police investigation in connection with blast at New Delhi’s historic #RedFort, @shuriahn.bsky.social reports
#AIUIndia #lalqila
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Peak university body suspends Al-Falah after Red Fort blast
The Association of Indian Universities has suspended Al-Falah University, a private university in India’s northern Haryana state, after it emerged t...
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November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Over 300 scholars around the world have written to the #SAARC regional body for #SouthAsia regarding the “unjust and punitive dismissal” of an economics professor at the South Asian University #SAU India, @shuriahn.bsky.social reports
#Academicfreedom
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Scholars appeal to regional body over professor’s axing
Over 300 academics from around the world have called on the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation to intervene in what they call the “unj...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Despite geopolitical tensions, Swedish #researchers have a generally positive view on #research ties with China, a survey finds. Jan Petter Myklebust reports
#STINT #Sweden
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Swedish researchers are positive about China ties – Survey
Despite increasing geopolitical tension between China and some Western democracies, Swedish researchers have a generally positive view on collaboratio...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Centre’s narrow elections victory in #Netherlands offers universities a breather from cuts. What happens next hinges on populist framing of science as just another opinion, write Jo Ritzen @unumerit.bsky.social & Job Zomerplaag @maastrichtu.bsky.social
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Dutch vote gave universities a reprieve. Will they use it?
The outcome of the recent elections in the Netherlands offers universities breathing space from threatened cuts but reveals a challenge facing many un...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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The real competition for branch campuses in #India is not Western universities setting up from abroad, it is India’s own private liberal arts and global universities, writes Ragh Singh @iubloomington.bsky.social
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Branch campuses: Agents of change or global elite enclaves?
India’s international branch campuses experiment is not merely about foreign universities entering new markets; it is about how India defines global...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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English-track degrees fuel rise in #internationalstudents in South Korea, Yumi Jeung reports from Seoul
#language
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English-track degrees fuel rise in foreign student numbers
A burgeoning number of degrees taught in English at universities in South Korea has fuelled strong growth in foreign students in recent years, part of...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Unprecedented challenges & growing public trust deficit means universities must return to principles of #equity #Inclusion, social responsibility & student-centredness, #IAU conference in #Rwanda heard, Jean d’Amour Mbonyinshuti reports from Kigali
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Universities must work hard to gain public trust, IAU told
Facing unprecedented challenges and a growing public trust deficit, universities need to return to core principles of equity and inclusiveness, truth,...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Against a backdrop of geopolitical tensions and decoupling China is renewing its #highered internationalisation strategy to combine its outreach with its own geopolitical interests, writes Qiang Zha @yorkuniversity.bsky.social
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China’s HE internationalisation takes a geopolitical turn
Previously a way for Chinese universities to align their operations and standards with those of their Western counterparts, which in turn helped advan...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Are governments & universities still willing to commit time, space, the environment, funding, &freedom of research and collaboration required for advances in basic #research that win #NobelPrizes, write @philipaltbach.bsky.social & Tessa DeLaquil #NTNU
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2025 Nobels: Is our world still committed to the long game?
One wonders if governments and universities still grasp what Alfred Nobel recognised as the kind of investment in time, space, environment, funding an...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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India is expanding its footprint in Africa’s #highereducation sector, setting up a new #IIT campus in #Nigeria , @shuriahn.bsky.social reports
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New campus in Nigeria expands IIT footprint to West Africa
India is expanding its footprint in Africa’s higher education sector, setting up a highly regarded Indian Institute of Technology campus in Nigeria ...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Universities concerned that political conservatism of new PM Sanae #Takaichi and 'Japan First' policies could have an impact on #internationalstudents, Suvendrini Kakuchi reports from Tokyo
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Concerns over conservative policy impact on foreign students
A rise in political and social conservatism in Japan is worrying academics concerned about the risk of a spillover into the higher education sector, w...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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For @uniworldnews.bsky.social , EUA’s Helene Peterbauer reflects on:
- why academic careers are receiving more attention of late,
- why there is need for urgent action within universities,
- how EUA’s key principles can help set this in motion
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October 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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#Free2Think2025 documented the #wrongfulimprisonment of student protesters in #Zimbabwe, #Mozambique, #Cameroon, and more, as arrests have been used to suppress student dissent on campuses across the African continent. @uniworldnews.bsky.social: www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
Report shows ongoing political attacks on student activists
Attacks on students, academics and researchers, as well as the destruction of university property or threats that undermined institutional autonomy an...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Time’s up: 7 out of 9 universities reject Trump’s 'Compact for Excellence in #HigherEducation' criticised by some as a threat to university autonomy and #academicfreedom, Nathan Greenfield reports
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Time’s up: Seven of nine universities reject Trump’s deal
The deadline set by United States Education Secretary Linda McMahon for responses to the ‘Compact for Excellence in Higher Education’ has now pass...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Worldwide, universities are at a turning point in an era of #AI and global insecurity, a conference of university leaders heard, Amber Wang reports on the #IAUP meeting in Seoul.
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Universities at a turning point in an era of AI insecurity
As artificial intelligence and global insecurity challenge university leaders worldwide, universities must remain true to their fundamental principles...
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October 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Student-led anti-government movement helps topple #Madagascar's president, Villen Anganan reports
#madagascargenZ #Madagascarprotests #GenZ
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Student-led anti-government movement helps topple president
Protests by students at Madagascar’s largest university have helped bring down the embattled former president of the island country, replaced on 14 ...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Morocco's #GenZ protests are set to continue, despite fatalities, Wagdy Sawahel reports
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Gen Z protests are set to continue, despite fatalities
Morocco’s Generation Z movement nationwide protest for ‘dignity, justice and freedom’ is set to continue on 18 October, despite the alleged poli...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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#AI is no longer an experimental, futuristic tool for India’s universities but is transforming how they teach, manage & innovate a new #FICCI report says,
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AI is already transforming Indian higher education – Report
Artificial Intelligence is no longer an experimental, futuristic tool for India’s universities but is transforming how institutions teach, manage an...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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#Research and education ensure the EU trade and development initiative #GlobalGateway aligns with the priorities of other continents, the #globalgatewayforum forum hears, writes Jan Palmowski @guildeu.bsky.social
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Universities must seize Global Gateway opportunities
All the pillars of the European Union’s trade and development strategy towards lower- and middle-income countries – digital, climate and energy, t...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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What truly defines research excellence? Our new report with @riken-brc-jp.bsky.social urges us to look beyond citations – recognizing mentorship, collaboration and social impact. How can we better support #WomenInScience?

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October 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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With Japanese women #science leaders facing deep-rooted societal barriers, a new report by @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Foundation & #RIKEN says #research excellence needs to be redefined, Suvendrini Kakuchi reports from Tokyo
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Research excellence needs redefinition for gender equity
Women leaders in science face deep-rooted gender-based societal barriers. To boost the low number of female scientists and researchers in Japan, resea...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Hong Kong police revealed 126 reports of fraudulent academic qualifications from HK universities this year, but many cases go unreported raising concerns of damage to #HongKong’s reputation as a #highered hub, @yojanasharma.bsky.social reports
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Mounting admissions fraud cases are threat to Hong Kong HE
Hong Kong’s reputation as an education hub is under threat from escalating claims of admissions fraud, with city police this week saying they have r...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM