| 9 February 2025 Issue No: 818
GLOBAL Mary Beth Marklein  The Trump administration's stunning evisceration of the United States Agency for International Development brought an abrupt halt worldwide to the work of an untold number of universities, which serve as one of the US government's primary conduits for promoting soft power abroad.
UNITED STATES Nathan M Greenfield  Higher education groupings representing professors and diversity officers are parties to a lawsuit against the US president, which argues that his crusade to erase diversity, equity, and inclusion programmes is unconstitutional, threatens academic freedom, and is an affront to the sector's core values.
UNITED STATES Nathan M Greenfield  Trump's executive order on patriotic education in schools is 'more frightening' than what happened during the McCarthy era and signals what is to come for universities and colleges., says one of the challengers to the use of loyalty oaths in education institutions in 1967.
GLOBAL James Yoonil Auh  DeepSeek's meteoric, interdisciplinary success starkly highlights inefficiencies embedded within many American universities. While deep specialisation has been the engine behind countless scientific breakthroughs, it is increasingly misaligned with the cross-disciplinary nature of contemporary AI research.
GLOBAL Louise Nicol  While many universities claim to value education for education's sake, they and their agents primarily use work opportunities to attract international students. Moreover, while universities are happy to promote post-study work opportunities, they offer little support for international students returning to their home countries.
INDIA Malish CM and Akshay CC  The latest round of higher education reforms in India, which are portrayed as 'student-centred' and upholding the mantra of 'flexibility', is likely to accelerate commercialisation, widen inequalities and dilute quality. These reforms could also lead to the disappearance of the colleges and universities we are familiar with today.
GLOBAL Wagdy Sawahel  Led by China, Spain, and Germany, current research on higher education for sustainable development focuses predominantly on environmental and economic aspects, leaving social sustainability, which is critical to achieving societal stability, relatively underexplored, according to a recent analysis of global research trends.
AFRICA Mark Paterson and Thierry M Luescher
GLOBAL Patrick Blessinger, James Brown, Abhilasha Singh and Beena Giridharan  Education for Sustainable Development helps learners to acquire the skills to make decisions on sustainable options that care for the environment and society. As we imagine the future, ESD will be at the centre of creating a world where sustainability lies at the core of our actions and choices.
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