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The recent American Association of Colleges and Universities’ report on trust was a clarion call for the sector to confront the collapse in public c...

Looking back to the days before Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence was presented, on 25 May 2026 in a hall a four-minute walk from the Sistine Chapel, Peter Kilpatrick, president of the Catholic University of America, told University World News that Magnifica Humanitas (MH) “was one of the most anticipated encyclicals of all time”.

For millennia, people dyed their clothes with plant-based indigo to give their clothes that deep, bold blue colour. This includes early versions of jeans, but as they became more popular in the 20th century, manufacturers needed to find artificial alternatives to meet demand.

Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal, officially recognised as a place where the local and global are “seamlessly intertwined”, was founded in 1918 by Rabindranath Tagore, the famous Bengali poet, philosopher, and Nobel Prize winner for Literature.

The government of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, has directed all universities and higher education institutions to establish ‘anti-radicalisation’ units on campuses.

Times Higher Education, or THE, released its now-rebranded Sustainability Impact Ratings, which continue to showcase how universities are working towa...

There is growing institutional engagement with sustainability agendas in Arab Gulf states, but implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remains largely shaped by global ranking frameworks and policy imperatives, with only limited evidence of substantive SDG localisation.

Three fourth-year students in mining and mineral processing engineering at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in Kenya – Ian Ngumbau Wambua, Shaneal Mumbi, and Ruth Afandi Igunza – have devised a way to process minerals without requiring water, a key component in the mining industry.

The opening of a campus of Lincoln University College, Malaysia in Nigeria’s northeast Gombe is projected to serve as a centre for technology-driven innovations and to position the area, through public-private partnerships, as a regional hub for higher education.

In a significant move to elevate higher education to an international level under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, India has recently approved proposals from the University of Bristol, the University of York and UNSW Sydney to establish campuses in the country.