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Universities forced to rethink internationalisation strategies

Futao Huang

Amid geopolitical tensions and political pressure, universities are adapting by diversifying partnerships, regionalising collaborations, strengthening risk governance and pursuing more strategically selective forms of engagement to sustain meaningful global engagement. Politics is now embedded within the structures, priorities and everyday operations of universities themselves.

Wagdy Sawahel

Higher education is being positioned as a key pillar in the growing South-South relationship between Brazil and Africa, following the launch of the CAPES-Move Africa programme, which includes 2,600 postgraduate scholarships for students from Africa to study at Brazilian higher education institutions.

Karen Joy Koopman and Oscar Koopman

The student is not a unit of bare educational life to be administered, but a person whose intellectual aptitude matters. That is what the AI debate in universities is missing – not a detection algorithm or a disclosure policy but a different question about what the student is.

Ignacio Sánchez

In recent years, serious incidents of violence have occurred within educational institutions in most countries, affecting both secondary schools and tertiary institutions. Universities have an important role to play in inspiring respectful dialogue and the peaceful resolution of conflicts so that societies can coexist peacefully.

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.

Evangelos Danopoulos

Universities produce scientific evidence every day, yet much of it never shapes policy. While researchers may be skilled at reporting methods and results, they can lack the ability to translate those results into policy-relevant recommendations. A solution is to bring science and policy closer.

Tarek Abd Elgalil

Nearly 90 years after the earliest experimental steps of animation film in Africa, the field is undergoing a structural transformation. Universities are pushing to formalise the medium into a rigorous academic discipline, balancing technical workflows with ‘visual sovereignty’ and native scholarship.

Romain Faure, Christiane Wolf Suzuki and Florian Kohstall

What will Germany’s research security architecture look like in the future? How will it affect the internationalisation of research? The proposed ‘National Platform for Knowledge Security’ on its own is not sufficient. What is needed is a broad culture of awareness and shared responsibility.