Brendan O'Malley

Dec 17, 2023 | universityworldnews.com | Brendan O'Malley

GLOBAL Scientists have described the commitment of COP28, the UN climate summit, to “transition away” from fossil fuels as a “significant step forward” but far short of the commitment that was needed to meet the goal of holding global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Climate scientists had hoped for a commitment to “phase out” the use of fossil fuels.

Dec 3, 2023 | universityworldnews.com | Brendan O'Malley

GLOBAL Tensions spawned by the conflict in Israel and Gaza are making the task of engaging students in intercultural dialogue and international collaborations nigh impossible in some countries, the annual conference of the International Association of Universities (IAU) was told this week. University leaders are facing an ongoing dilemma over how to respond to rising tension affecting their own campus, the conference, hosted in Doha, Qatar, heard.

Nov 27, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Jordan McCarthy |Brendan O'Malley |Madura McCormack |Imran Ali

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Nov 3, 2023 | universityworldnews.com | Brendan O'Malley

GLOBAL For the past few weeks our news bulletins have been filled with distressing images of victims from both sides in Israel and Palestine, and warnings of humanitarian catastrophe. This comes on top of the ongoing tragedy of war in Ukraine and the conflict in Sudan. I was invited to speak at the Magna Charta Observatory conference on ‘Universities and reconstruction of cities: the role of research and education’, held in Lodz, Poland on 23-25 October.

Oct 28, 2023 | universityworldnews.com | Brendan O'Malley

EUROPE Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Mychailo Wynnyckyj, has called on Western universities to stem the drain of talent over its borders by refocusing support on study and research programmes in Ukraine. “We have a war to win and a country to rebuild and we need our best brains here,” he said. This could be done in particular by supporting joint degree programmes, as opposed to supporting more students leaving Ukraine.