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KTU researchers develop a system that helps block illegal timber from entering the EU market
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Union (EU) strengthened controls in the timber sector to prevent sanctioned raw materials from entering the market from Russia and Belarus. Yet recent studies reveal that a significant amount of this timber still reaches the EU – often through intermediary countries. Estimates suggest that since sanctions were introduced, more than 1.5 billion euros worth of restricted timber may have entered Europe, while nearly half of the tested samples did not match their declared…
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STINT tools help gauge risk and gains in HE Collaboration
A new report offers ‘exploratory tools’ to gauge risk and benefits in international collaborations in higher education and research that can be adapted to different contexts and decision-making – from individual researchers and lecturers to academic leadership, research funders, and policy-makers.The report, Risk and opportunity assessment for international collaboration and activities, was written by Albin Gaunt from the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) and Tommy Shih (Lund University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology),…
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Education Department dismantling sees study abroad initiatives transferred to State
The US State Department has announced it will take over a dozen international education programs including Fulbright-Hays as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education.Under the new agreement, the programs will be brought under the authority of the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), the primary government agency administering educational exchange programs.  Announcing the news on November 18, the government said the State Department was “best positioned to tailor foreign language education programs…
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Malta: Number of HE international students shoots up by 27%
The number of tertiary international students studying in Malta has increased by over a quarter in just one academic year, new statistics have revealed.The number of international students enrolled in Maltese further and higher education in the 2023/24 academic year stood at 8,252 – representing 37% of all tertiary enrolments in the country, according to new data from Malta’s National Statistics office (NSO).This represents a 27% increase in international enrolments year-on-year, the NSO said, with 21.9% being non-EU nationals at…
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Trump poses ‘existential threat’ to HE and democracy
The Trump administration’s push to control universities is posing an “existential threat” to higher education and democracy and is transforming universities into breeding grounds of compliance, a panel of university leaders and academic freedom experts warned the Anniversary of the Magna Charta Universitatum MCU2020, hosted at King’s College London from 11 to 13 November 2025.But universities have to do better at standing together and demonstrating and communicating their contribution to society in general and to their local community in particular,…
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