Languages face chop as Macquarie focuses on ‘cultural fluency’
Linguistic fluency ‘seldom achieved’ and peripheral to ‘the jobs of today and the future’, Australian university claims
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Interview with Kabir Sheikh
Health researcher on bridging the policy-academia divide and navigating global health politics
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Universities ‘must crack lifelong learning or risk irrelevance’
Michael Fung, a former deputy chief executive of Singapore’s SkillsFuture programme, takes his methodology to Mexico and the developing world
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Universities ‘paying lip service’ to interdisciplinary research
THE analysis finds that high share of global institutions fail to recognise staff for cross-disciplinary working, as experts warn research environment is ‘still not up to the task’
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Parliamentarians want ‘nuclear’ crackdown on agents and colleges
Committee also wants ‘Team Australia’ approach, bankrolled by a levy, to ‘open doors’ in Africa, Asia and Latin America
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Can Hong Kong remain a global higher education hub?
The special administrative region’s status as an international crossroads has been severely shaken by the National Security Law and stringent Covid lockdowns. But sector leaders remain buoyant about...
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World University Rankings 2024: China creeps closer to top 10
North America has also revived while Oceania’s international outlook has dipped. Patrick Jack picks out key rankings trends
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Poland looks to Asia and Africa to boost student recruitment
Students who would have studied in Ukraine are turning to Poland since the invasion, university leaders say
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Let’s use in-person conferences for interaction, not presentation
Annual meetings should be reimagined as spaces that enable connections – including with practitioners and the media, says Noam Schimmel
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US ‘must wake up’ to diminishing research power, or ‘lose to Asia’
Clarivate report highlights reliance of US on research collaboration with China in key fields like engineering and technology
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International study stayed strong during Covid, says OECD report
UK and US might have benefited from significant drop in travel to Australia and New Zealand, according to Education at a Glance
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World University Rankings 2024: Australia over-achieves in research
European nations have the highest research income levels, but Hong Kong and Australia surpass them in research productivity
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‘Get out of plagiarism rut’ and teach students how to use AI
Teaching students how to best use ChatGPT and other tools will be core to universities’ future, leaders tell THE summit
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The week in higher education – 28 September 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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There is no large-scale, direct attack on academic freedom in India
BJP ministers and supporters are largely limiting themselves to discrediting and suppressing evidence of government failings, says an academic