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May 18, 2022

Virtual Student Exchange to Outlast COVID-19

SUMMARY In spite of pandemic-imposed travel restrictions, technology has allowed study abroad experiences to continue, and has in fact made them more ...
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May 18, 2022

How Should Information Systems Research Approach Indigenous Peoples?

SUMMARY Researchers from the field of information systems held three events to discuss how their field can set aside colonial legacies and approach In...
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May 18, 2022

COVID altered adolescent sexual and reproductive health care in less wealthy countries

SUMMARY An analysis of existing research on adolescent sexual and reproductive health in low- and middle-income countries identifies several themes th...
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May 18, 2022

Fish offer global look at microplastic pollution

SUMMARY “Microplastics are like dust. We’re breathing them all the time and they’re accumulating in us,” says ecologist Adrian Jordaan. He and...
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May 16, 2022

WUN AGM 2022

© LT/www.diapo.ch The Worldwide Universities Network Annual General Meeting is the central event in the WUN calendar, drawing together colleagues fr...
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Mar 28, 2022

Are universities of the past still the future?

On 24 January 2022, on the fourth annual UNESCO International Day of Education, Ernst & Young (EY) launched their global “Future of Higher Educa...
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Mar 23, 2022

WUN Executive Director visits Makerere University

The Vice Chancellor-Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe (3rd left) and WUN Director Prof. Peter Lennie (4th right) with DVCAA-Assoc. Prof. Umar Kakumba (3rd right...
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Mar 16, 2022

WUN consortium launches ‘Tertiary Education in a Warming World’ Report

Higher education institutes have a critical role to play in driving the scientific, political, technological, and cultural change needed to avoid the ...
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Mar 15, 2022

UP launches national network to support UN Sustainable Development Goals

The University of Pretoria (UP) has launched SDSN South Africa, a national network for the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Networ...