Global Edition

Jan Petter Myklebust

Outraged by the government's planned austerity measures in the higher education and research budget, twelve organisations representing trade unions, students, young academics and university staff have called for support for an 'Alternative Opening of the Academic Year' to be held in the city of Utrecht.

The extent of the financing crisis is “significant”

Nick Mitchell

With UK universities concerned that recruitment of overseas postgraduates will fall sharply this year as a result of changes to immigration rules, the focus since the recent release of A-Level results has been on maximising recruitment of undergraduate students from both the UK and overseas.

Nathan M. Greenfield

Hundreds of books from the disbanded Gender and Diversity Center at New College of Florida in the US, as well as other books from the library, including LGBTQ+ topics, were thrown out. While the university administration says it had no influence on which books were thrown out, others see this as a cultural cleansing.

Louise Nicol

While the future of Australian higher education currently looks bleak, there is an opportunity to change the way we think about it and see students as assets rather than costs. This could be achieved by creating a direct link between graduation and employment, thereby increasing productivity and economic growth.

Wachira Kigotho

Kenyan academic and author Ngugi wa Thiong'o spoke about enslavement by colonial languages, resistance to coloniality and how multilingualism is the oxygen of all cultures in a public lecture hosted by Indigenous Language Media in Africa at North-West University in South Africa.

Yanick Inghels, Kris Boudt and Andre Spithoven

Despite the formal integration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into Horizon Europe, a new methodology for monitoring European Union research spending reveals inequalities in SDG funding and raises questions about the effectiveness of the EU's substantial research funding in advancing the Goals.

Mohiuddin Alamgir

The swearing-in of the new transitional government, which for the first time in the country's history includes two students, was followed by mass resignations of top representatives of state universities who owed their positions to their support for the previous regime.

Nathan M. Greenfield

Donald Trump's agenda for higher education in the United States, as outlined in his “authoritarian policy blueprint,” Project 2025, calls for an aggressive and intrusive federal government, declining funding, a barrage of political litmus tests, and an erosion of U.S. scientific and technological capacity, according to higher education experts.