By Wim de Villiers. To many of us in academia, social media is nothing more than a nuisance. Something we try to ignore, at best tolerate and secretly hate with a passion.By Nicola Jenvey. The roles of city fathers and universities have to intertwine to find solutions to globalisation and urbanisation issues, specifically that the knowledge generated in higher education becomes part of the social fabric and change in the environments in which it operates. More...By Nicola Jenvey. Globally, the digital economy has benefited some communities and individuals, while leaving others behind, to effectively widen the social divide and poverty lines. Universities and innovation hubs must take care to address local economic, social and cultural needs. More...By Sarah Brown, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Bias-related incidents and hate-group propaganda on college campuses have recently captured greater public attention as America’s political climate has become more charged. Since President Donald Trump’s election, many people with far-right, racist and sexist views have felt emboldened to speak freely. More...By Karen MacGregor. Expanding the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program to implement a ‘10/10’ initiative that supports 10,000 diaspora academics across the world over 10 years to partner with African universities is underway, says the project’s founder Dr Paul Zeleza. More...By Roger Chao Jr. As an international education development professional and a scholar of higher education regionalism, I have been contemplating the slow ratification of the UNESCO 2011 Asia-Pacific Recognition Convention. More...By Catherine Montgomery. The announcement that Peking University will spend £9 million (US$11.7 million) on opening a business school in Oxford early next year has attracted a great deal of attention in the UK media as well as in education. More...By Graeme Atherton. The UK Labour Party wants to abolish higher education tuition fees for students in England if it wins the general election next month. From as early as this September students would no longer be subject to the highest tuition fees on average of any country in the world. More...By Brent White. With an estimated 400 million people in developing countries lacking access to a higher education, United States universities seeking to internationalise have only scratched the surface of the opportunity to help meet the world’s need for affordable, globally accessible and high-quality education. More...By Raymond Hogler. On 24 April, postgraduate students at Yale University announced a hunger strike in support of Local 33 of Unite Here, a labour union that represents workers in a variety of industries – including higher education – in dozens of cities across North America. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
