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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 1d
Indian institutions often excel at teaching, yet struggle in #research output indicators which carry weight in #rankings. Foreign university branches could help change that, writes Nnamdi O Madichie #TNE #intled
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How foreign campuses could boost India’s global ranking
India’s higher education landscape is at a critical juncture, with only four universities listed among the top 500 in the Times Higher Education Wor...
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 4d
My local university and former employer, Lancaster, is opening a new campus in India *at the same time* as threatening UK staff with redundancies. How will the overseas campus work? How will the fees structure work? This can't be about anything other than money, and it smells very colonialist.
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 4d
During his visit to India this week UK PM Keir Starmer confirmed 2 more universities received approval to open new campuses there - a major expansion of UK #highered footprint in India, Brendan O'Malley reports
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Major expansion of UK universities’ footprint in India
United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that two more universities have been given approval to open new campuses in India, under ...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 4d
During his visit to India this week UK PM Keir Starmer confirmed 2 more universities received approval to open new campuses there - a major expansion of UK #highered footprint in India, Brendan O'Malley reports
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Major expansion of UK universities’ footprint in India
United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that two more universities have been given approval to open new campuses in India, under ...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 5d
#Kazakhstan's expansion of #TNEducation & #branchcampuses continues apace with 5-fold increase in #internationalstudents target within 3 years, HE & Science Minister Sayasat Nurbek tells @yojanasharma.bsky.social
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Minister eyes five-fold growth in foreign student numbers
Keen to take advantage of the window of opportunity presented by tighter visa policies in more traditional student destination countries in the West, ...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 5d
Universities from the UK, #Kazakhstan, and South Korea will establish branch campuses in the Pakistan's Punjab province, Ameen Amjad Khan reports from Islamabad
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Universities from three countries to set up in Punjab
Four universities from the United Kingdom and one each from Kazakhstan and South Korea are to establish branch campuses in Pakistan’s Punjab provinc...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 5d
Before delegating the complex task of student #evaluation to #AI we need to ask a more fundamental question: To what extent does an #LLM’s rating represent a student’s actual capability? writes Max Lu @harvard.edu
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Rethinking student assessment in the age of AI
The rise of LLMs presents a compelling response to the logistical challenges of student assessment, offering efficiency and consistency at an unpreced...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 5d
US university leaders reacted largely with derision and varying degrees of horror to the “Compact" for #HigherEducation” offered to nine elite universities last week, Nathan Greenfield reports
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HE leaders brand Trump’s compact for HE as ‘extortion’
The Trump administration’s compact offered to nine elite universities has provoked alarm among higher education leaders. It demands surrender of aca...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 6d
The academic uproar over blocking #scihub in India spotlights unequal access to knowledge in Indian #highered, Rituparna Patgiri @iitguwahati.bsky.social #research #libraries
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Blocking Sci-Hub spotlights unequal access to knowledge
The recent High Court ruling in India to block Sci-Hub and similar sites providing pirated access to research has led to a public outcry. But blocking...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 6d
University of Hong Kong is making plans to set up a branch campus - its first outside HK/China - planned for #Barcelona, @yojanasharma.bsky.social reports
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University of Hong Kong to set up branch campus in Europe
One of Asia’s top-ranked institutions, the University of Hong Kong, is expanding into Europe with a new branch campus in Barcelona, according to rec...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 7d
Missed some of our recent #highered coverage from our correspondents and commentators around #Asia ? Catch up with our Asia Hub link
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Lonni Besançon @lonnibesancon.bsky.social · 8d
Our recent panel in Science integrity at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum was covered in this article on
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 8d
International interest in studying for a masters degree in the US has fallen by 61% since 6 January, Nathan Greenfield reports
#Studyportals #studyabroad #internationalstudents
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International interest in US masters degrees falls by 61%
The US is experiencing its lowest level of international student interest in studying for a masters degree in over five years owing to regulatory and ...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 8d
#Argentina's public university system is at breaking point. What is being destroyed in a few years took decades to build. Reconstructing it will take much longer – if it ever happens, writes Mónica Marquina @Conicet
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What role will knowledge play in the future of Argentina?
Defending public universities in Argentina – now at breaking point – is not a nostalgic act but a political choice about the country’s future. T...
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IOP Publishing @ioppublishing.bsky.social · 8d
🔍What if we all used our skills to call out fraud in academia?

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We share the responsibility to safeguard integrity of the scholarly record.
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All academics should be scientific sleuths, says scholar
Exposing academic fraud should be part and parcel of an academic’s job, not an after-hours hobby, and universities should give staff support to stre...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 12d
#Afghanistan's two day Internet blackout this week alarmed students & sparked fears of full blackout, Manija Mirzaie reports
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Internet cut alarms students, sparks fears of full blackout
Afghanistan appeared to be edging towards a total digital blackout as the Taliban cut internet access for two days in a move that disrupted services a...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 12d
A US district court judge delivered a blistering critique of government efforts to deport #internationalstudents lawfully living in the US who had protested in support of #Palestine, Nathan Greenfield reports
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Court rules against Trump’s student deportation efforts
A district court judge delivered a blistering critique of the government’s efforts to deport international students lawfully living in the US who ha...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 12d
A new #ranking of South Korean universities which focuses on internationalisation indicators is intended for #internationalstudents looking to study in #Korea, Yumi Jeung reports from Seoul
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First Korean rankings reflect trend towards globalised HE
A new university ranking in South Korea – its first ever national rankings – is heavily weighted towards internationalisation and aims to provide ...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 13d
Post #CharlieKirk, support for violence against campus speakers has risen among students, with major implications for #academicfreedom. So how to protect free speech? Nathan Greenfield reports
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Defence of free speech on campuses is anything but free
A survey of students in the United States released shortly after Charlie Kirk’s assassination shows that acceptance of violence in response to speec...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 13d
#Highered leaders lose their fight to prevent a new levy on universities in England for recruiting #internationalstudents – with the funds earmarked for new maintenance grants for disadvantaged domestic students, Nic Mitchell reports
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English universities lose international student levy fight
Higher education leaders appear to have lost their fight to prevent a new levy being charged on English universities recruiting international students...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 13d
South Korean #medicalstudents ended their 18 month strike on 1 September but they paid a high price as resuming #medicaleducation faces major challenges, write Anna de Beer @QMULBartsTheLon & Frederike Jenne @uni_regensburg
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Striking medical students paid a high price. For what?
The 18-month dispute over expansion of medical school enrolment in South Korea has ended without a durable resolution. The government failed to secure...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 13d
Many Indonesians graduate with #STEM degrees confident of meaningful employment, yet find their hopes dashed. They require what researchers call ‘employability capital' wites Ali Yasfi @monashuniversity.bsky.social
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Technical training is one piece of the employability puzzle
The underemployment of STEM graduates in Indonesia highlights the need not only for technical training, but individual agentic capital – the capacit...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 14d
Attacks on institutional autonomy in authoritarian states is combined with “historic levels” of pressure on #academicfreedom in liberal democracies, mainly the US, says @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social 's #FreetoThink2025 report, Nathan Greenfield reports
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Report tracks US role in global squeeze on academic freedom
The latest Scholars at Risk academic freedom report details how pressure on institutional autonomy and academic freedom in authoritarian states has co...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 14d
Put off by rising costs at Western universities, a depreciating yen and difficulty obtaining #studentvisas for US #studyabroad, Japanese students are shifting to universities in #Asia, Suvendrini Kakuchi reports from Tokyo
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Put off by cost, visa issues, students eye Asia over the West
Many more Japanese students who plan to study abroad are regarding universities in Asia as more affordable options than Western study destinations ami...
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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 15d
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This special report dives into how IHE Delft is making a global impact through water education & sustainability.

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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 19d
#h1bvisa chaos sends #internationalstudents in India & China into panic, while academic pathways are at risk with many US universities using the visa to fill academic posts, @shuriahn.bsky.social, Amber Wang & @yojanasharma.bsky.social report
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H1-B visa chaos sends international students into panic
The US administration’s decision to hike the H-1B skilled worker visa fee to US$100,000 has sent shockwaves through the US technology and higher...
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