Reconstructing higher education post-conflict is a global responsibility

By Brendan O’Malley – Managing Editor. In Commentary, Sultan Barakat and Sansom Milton argue that rebuilding higher education in the aftermath of conflict is a top priority that requires collective national and international effort.
Jamil Khader contends that the magnitude of the attack on academic freedom in the occupied Palestinian territories has been underestimated. Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela writes that student protests in Chile have impoverished higher education quality and could produce a generation with a strong political formation but without a robust academic background.
Abi Mandelbaum describes how colleges in America are using virtual reality and augmented reality to attract students and create a community. In World Blog, Margaret Andrews makes the case for marketing universities in ways that reflect a strong, unique identity rather than making them all look the same.
In Features, Nic Mitchell outlines a report from the European Students’ Union warning that patchy implementation of the Bologna process could render it obsolete. Suvendrini Kakuchi finds a new era of university-industry collaboration in Japan, and Munyaradzi Makoni looks at university involvement in innovation and inclusive development in marginalised African communities. Read more...