By Brendan O’Malley – Managing Editor. In Commentary, Wafa Singh asks if teaching has become redundant in the age of the internet and how universities can rethink teaching so it offers value to students. Linda Storey offers one solution that may assist with this, explaining how lecture-capture technology can be key to personalising learning and widening participation by supporting a diverse student body. Lin Tian and Nian Cai Liu say that higher education in China should be seen as a global common good rather than a public good, and universities in different countries need to cooperate and construct a community with a common interest rather than focusing on their own self-interest. And Harivansh Chaturvedi writes that Indian higher education is in need of much more deep-rooted change than the proposed replacement of the University Grants Commission with a new regulatory body, the Higher Education Commission of India.
   In our World Blog this week, Hans de Wit says the dynamics of international student mobility have intensified and become more diverse and complex over the past 10 years, but the push and pull factors for mobility have not changed.
   In our series on Pacific Rim higher education and research, Yojana Sharma reports that academics attending the Association of Pacific Rim Universities conference emphasised the need to deal with ethical issues in the use of artificial intelligence so that research and applications are not used for nefarious purposes, such as weapons of war.
   In our section on Academic Corruption, Brendan O’Malley writes that the digital revolution has already transformed the way some people cheat and some of the methods used to catch them.
   In Features, Ria Nurdiani reports on a new task force set up in Indonesia to develop guidelines to combat Islamic radicalism which appears to be gaining wider support on campuses. And Gilbert Nakweya reports on a call at the Sustainable African Cities conference for timely research from universities to help address challenges affecting people in African cities. More...

By Yojana Sharma. Universities will be key in bridging new emerging ‘digital divides’ within countries and globally in the era of innovation driven by artificial intelligence and other new technologies, a conference organised by the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) heard last week. More...