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Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: Blue Charter SDGs ACU Summer School Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan The Duchess of Sussex

ACU Summer School students cheer and pose for a group photo

2019 at the ACU

Published on 17 December 2019 As 2019 draws to a close, it’s a fitting time to look back at how the ACU has worked with its members and partners to deliver on our core mission: building a better world through higher education. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: SDGs Commonwealth Futures

Commonwealth youth leaders convene in the UK for the inaugural Commonwealth Futures workshop

Published on 09 December 2019 The inaugural workshop in the Commonwealth Futures series took place at Cumberland Lodge, UK, from 1-3 December 2019 on the theme ‘Commonwealth Futures: Youth Perspectives’. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: University of Mauritius SDGs ACU Summer School

ACU Summer School 2019 brings students from across the Commonwealth to Mauritius

Published on 29 August 2019 The 2019 ACU Summer School brought students from across the Commonwealth to the University of Mauritius to focus on the theme 'Public health: from a small island state to the global community'. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: Climate and the environment Commonwealth Climate Resilience Network SDGs

Commonwealth universities join forces to prepare for climate resilience

Published on 06 August 2019 Universities from across the Commonwealth have pledged to work together to support higher education institutions and their communities to develop resilience to climate change Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: University of Warwick Edward Boyle Medical Elective Bursaries

Medical student in white lab coat stood outside of Jinja hospital in Uganda

Emergency medicine in Uganda: one student’s story

Published on 25 July 2019 Alexander Mount writes about his Edward Boyle Medical Elective Bursary experience, where he spent in the emergency department of Jinja Regional Hospital in Uganda. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: Blue Charter Climate and the environment Academic mobility

Fighting marine plastic pollution: emerging scientists driving change with our Blue Charter Fellowships

Published on 24 July 2019 The second cohort of Blue Charter Fellows have been selected to travel to ACU member universities and institutions across the Commonwealth to carry out research into marine plastic pollution Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: Blue Charter SDGs

Abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear: Why education is key to managing the menace of plastic pollution

Published on 22 July 2019 Maurice Beseng writes about his Blue Charter Fellowship experience in Cameroon, where he studied the fishing gear crisis and its contribution to plastic pollution. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: SDGs Commonwealth Climate Resilience Network Dr Joanna Newman Higher Education and the SDGs Network

New network on higher education and the SDGs launched

Published on 11 July 2019 A new network to boost the contribution of universities to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been launched by the ACU. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: SDGs Dr Joanna Newman Teaching and learning

Higher education’s essential contribution to the SDGs

Published on 10 July 2019 None of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be achieved without the contribution of higher education – through research, teaching, and community engagement. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: Africa Climate and the environment CIRCLE Research uptake

Renewed funding to boost climate change research in Africa

Published on 18 June 2019 Climate change research at universities across sub-Saharan Africa received a boost this week, thanks to renewed funding from the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: Climate and the environment

A viewpoint on the plastic bag charge in England: who is it benefiting?

Published on 12 June 2019 Nnamdi Madichie looks at our changing attitudes and what can we do to reduce plastic consumption. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: Blue Charter Climate and the environment

Nature does not see borders and neither does pollution

Published on 04 June 2019 Steve Allen writes about his research, aimed at gaining valuable quantitative data, mapping the output of plastics to the oceans from African rivers to help find the main sources of pollution. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: ACU Summer School Climate and the environment Refugees and displaced people University of Cape Coast

University of Cape Coast to host ACU Summer School 2020

Published on 04 June 2019 The ACU is pleased to announce the University of Cape Coast will host the ACU Summer School in August 2020, focusing on the theme of 'The Migration generation? Climate, youth and refugees'. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: Blue Charter Pacific The University of Adelaide Climate and the environment The University of the South Pacific

Beating plastic pollution: collaboration is key!

Published on 31 May 2019 Nina Wooten writes about her experience as a Blue Charter fellow in Fiji. She explored how microplastics are having an impact on seafood. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: Blue Charter The University of Adelaide Climate and the environment The University of the South Pacific

My ACU Blue Charter Fellowship: a stepping stone towards a solution

Published on 09 May 2019 Blue charter fellow, Rufino Robert Varea, talks about his experience at the University of Adelaide, studying plastics in shellfish sampled from the South Australian Coastal Environment. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: Blue Charter Research uptake SDGs Climate and the environment

Challenging attitudes towards plastic consumption in India

Published on 02 May 2019 Rajkumar Sahoo is a PhD Student from Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, India, where his research focuses on the sustainable consumption of single-use plastics in Indian cities. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: Blue Charter SDGs Research uptake

Turning the tide against plastics!

Published on 02 May 2019 Refilwe Mofokeng is a PhD candidate at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where her research focuses on quantifying marine related pollution. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: Blue Charter Equitable partnerships Climate and the environment Academic mobility

Waitrose & Partners fund new ACU Blue Charter Fellowships to tackle marine plastic pollution

Published on 18 April 2019 The ACU's innovative Blue Charter Fellowships scheme is being boosted with funding from Waitrose & Partners, to help tacking marine plastic pollution. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: Research uptake South Africa Peace and Reconciliation HE systems

Reconciliation through Decolonisation

Published on 01 March 2019 The research by Caryn seeks to explore the meanings and implications of contemporary expressions of decolonial activism in South Africa and its spread to British universities. Read this article

Theme: Global challenges Tagged with: SDGs

Higher education and the sustainable development agenda in Pakistan

Published on 24 January 2019 How can higher education institutions improve the sustainable development agenda in Pakistan? Read this article