Published on 18 December 2020
Dr Ian H. Rowlands is Associate Vice-President, International at the University of Waterloo. During 2020, he was on sabbatical from the University of Waterloo and affiliated with the ACU.
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Published on 17 December 2020
Now entering its fourth year, we are delighted to announce the ten ACU member institutions receiving this year’s Gender Grants, and what their project plans are.
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Published on 09 December 2020
How can international collaborations be fair, and enable universities in low and middle income countries (LMICs) to have a more equal footing?
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Published on 03 December 2020
Universities across the world are reflecting on what the the statues and the building names on their campuses mean in today’s world.
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Published on 26 November 2020
Some may question why universities need to be involved in reparations at all, but universities played a role in providing a cloak of respectability and legitimacy for the colonial project.
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Published on 18 November 2020
If we are to reduce the digital divide on the road to achieving higher education for all by 2030, a truly global effort is needed to shape a common roadmap to equity.
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Published on 12 November 2020
In recent decades, more students from indigenous and minority backgrounds have entered higher education. But what is their experience of being at university like?
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Published on 04 November 2020
Curricula tend to be modelled on templates of learning that have usually originated in the so-called West. However, there are growing calls to make the curriculum more authentic to where it's taught.
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Published on 02 November 2020
The ACU is pleased to be a partner in the Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate (Climate U) project.
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Published on 29 October 2020
Protests against racial injustice and demands to address historical wrongs are often accompanied by calls for decolonisation. But what does decolonisation mean for higher education?
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Published on 19 October 2020
ACU Summer School unites students from across the Commonwealth to discuss multidisciplinary issues of global importance. Baimba Osman Sheriff talks to us about his ACU Summer School experience.
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Published on 16 October 2020
The Government of Antigua and Barbuda is supporting the establishment of a Centre of Excellence for Oceanography and the Blue Economy at the University of the West Indies Five Islands Campus
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Published on 15 October 2020
Experts weigh in on supporting early-career researchers and creating enabling environments for quality research to thrive.
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Published on 15 October 2020
Professor Edward Byrne, Chair of the ACU Council and President & Principal of King’s College London has been awarded a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2020.
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Published on 13 October 2020
The ACU announces the first of three new Challenge Grant schemes, open exclusively to academic and professional staff at ACU member universities.
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Published on 07 October 2020
ACU Summer School students discuss the complex intersections of migration and health across Mauritius, Cameroon, Ghana, the northern Rakhine state of Myanmar, and India.
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Published on 07 October 2020
ACU Summer School delegates address the relationship between migration and climate change with a call to explore migration as an adaptation strategy.
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Published on 05 October 2020
ACU Summer School delegates examine the impact of migration on gender-based violence and access to employment.
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