University World News

University World News is a collective of around 60 education journalists located in over 25 countries, ensuring coverage from every region. Our team consists of experienced reporters who have made significant contributions to both international and national media outlets. Published by Higher Education Web Publishing Ltd, which is registered in London, University World News operates with a dedicated team based in Durban, London, Melbourne, Montreal, and Copenhagen. The publication retains the right to edit or modify articles as needed. Access to our newspaper is completely free. Each week, University World News delivers a complimentary emailed edition and updates to our website. Our global correspondents provide a wealth of content, including news articles, in-depth analyses, feature stories, and round-ups on critical issues, along with links to noteworthy pieces from other prominent newspapers and journals worldwide. We offer a broader selection of higher education topics than any single publication can, delivering a truly global perspective for an international audience. This makes it an ideal resource for busy academics, managers, researchers, and policymakers who want to stay informed about the global higher education landscape. Our journalists cover a wide range of higher education topics, from prestigious universities to lesser-known institutions in underreported regions, fostering better communication and understanding in the field. The University World News website also serves as a valuable source of information on grants, higher education research, press releases from tertiary organizations, job opportunities, and various developments, along with numerous links to higher education organizations and institutions around the world.

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Continental free trade areas and HE intersect at conference

1 week ago | universityworldnews.com | Elias Ngalame

AFRICA Academic experts and policy-makers have set the stage for a long-term initiative aimed at strengthening the synergies between economic integration and higher education development across Africa. The urgency to connect higher education policy and economic integration policy areas and to launch a training programme for this interface was the key to driving development in Africa, the experts said.
Poor data and code sharing undermine open science principles

1 week ago | universityworldnews.com | Wagdy Sawahel

GLOBAL “Formalistic policies and prevalent policy-practice gaps in high-profile medical journals undermine data and code transparency, necessitating a supportive publication ecosystem that empowers authors to uphold scientific responsibility and integrity.” This is the message that emerged from a study titled “Formalistic data and code availability policy in high-profile medical journals and pervasive policy-practice gaps in published articles: A meta-research study”, prepared by a group of...
Algeria drops French, adopts English as university language

1 week ago | universityworldnews.com | Wagdy Sawahel

ALGERIA The Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has decided to replace French with English at universities, starting in September when the new academic year begins. The ministry’s move was outlined in a directive at the beginning of April, instructing all public universities to begin transitioning first-year medical and scientific courses entirely to English, starting from the next academic year (September 2025).
Academics say draft screening law could deter foreign talent

1 week ago | universityworldnews.com | Yojana Sharma

NETHERLANDS Academics in the Netherlands are concerned that a proposed new law requiring the screening of incoming graduate students and researchers intending to work in ‘sensitive’ subject areas could create delays that might drive foreign talent to apply to universities in other countries instead. Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), the umbrella association of Dutch universities, has already said that it will oppose the bill.
President orders a crackdown on ‘certificate mills’

1 week ago | universityworldnews.com | Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman Akanbi

NIGERIA In another attempt to safeguard the integrity of the higher education sector, Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered several higher education regulatory bodies to clamp down on illegal tertiary institutions or ‘certificate mills’ undermining the credibility of the education sector in the country.
African researchers warned to watch out for predatory journals

1 week ago | universityworldnews.com | Maina Waruru

AFRICA Researchers are likely to fall victim to the deceptive ways of publishers who often operate as commercial and rarely as academic enterprises, much to the detriment of scholarly publishing and the advancement of knowledge.
Centres of Excellence take stock of a decade’s science yield

1 week ago | universityworldnews.com | Francis Kokutse

AFRICA The World Bank and other international partners have provided a total of US$729 million in funding for 54 African Centres of Excellence (ACE) over the past 10 years across the continent, resulting in the training of 27,000 students in various fields and the enrolment of 30,000 women in graduate programmes, thus advancing gender inclusion in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), Sylvia Mkandawire, the senior programme manager for the ACE programme at the Association...
Freedom of expression: Student not reinstated after a year

1 week ago | universityworldnews.com | Abdulrasheed Hammad

NIGERIA Several Nigerian students who have voiced their dissatisfaction about their universities and political leaders on social media have faced disciplinary action and intimidation – actions that human rights activists believe are undermining freedom of expression in Nigeria.
Encrypted digital exam will help to combat cheating

1 week ago | universityworldnews.com | Wagdy Sawahel

MOROCCO A Moroccan university has used an encrypted digital exam for the first time, as part of its efforts to tackle cheating and protect the integrity of the process. This technology was introduced at the pharmacy department of the Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University’s faculty of medicine, pharmacy and dentistry (FMPD), according to a recent statement posted on the faculty’s official Facebook page.
What needs to be done to get closer to achieving the SDGs

1 week ago | universityworldnews.com | Elias Ngalame

AFRICA Achieving ambitious development targets, including the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Union’s Agenda 2063, will require more substantial leveraging of the power of science, technology and innovation (STI) to fight Africa’s multidimensional vulnerabilities and move from crisis to sustainable development.