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Paris seeks Kabul’s cooperation to return Afghans living illegally in France, drawing criticism over engagement with a regime accused of systematic rights abuses against women and girls.
From research internships and university collaborations to student mobility and offshore campuses, higher education is emerging as an important area of cooperation as the two countries work to deepen their strategic partnership.
As artificial intelligence reshapes how students search for, consume and share information, UNESCO is calling for stronger media and information literacy education, alongside the launch of a new learning module on media literacy and AI in New Delhi.
A student-backed movement has won Serbia’s parliamentary election with a candidate list featuring academics, doctors and other professionals. More than 160 of its 250 candidates hold doctoral degrees, bringing an unusual concentration of academic experience into the country’s legislature.
New admission rules at two state-run universities limit women’s access to most defence and security programmes, prompting criticism from Human Rights Watch. Syria’s Higher Education Ministry says the restrictions apply only to specific courses linked to the requirements of military and security services.
A commentary published by UNESCO IdeasLAB argues that the dominance of colonial languages in classrooms and academic research can reinforce educational inequality, calling for African languages to play a greater role in teaching and knowledge production.
An 11-year-old from Egypt has won the 10th edition of the Arab Reading Challenge in Dubai, emerging as the overall champion from a record 40.28 million participating students across 60 countries.
