Posts tagged 'Higher-education'.
On March 12, 2026, UNESCO launched its first-ever comprehensive roadmap for transforming higher education. With 269 million students enrolled globally, the document delivers an urgent message: incremental reform is no longer enough. Here is what the seven guiding principles actually say β and why they matter now.
The 2026 HEPI/Kortext Student Generative AI Survey (third annual) finds that 95% of UK undergraduates now use AI β up from 66% in 2024. Yet universities remain deeply polarised: encouraging and discouraging AI in almost equal measure. Students are navigating this alone.
The Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2026 State of Higher Education Study finds that 57% of US college students use AI weekly, and 16% have already changed their major because of AI. Meanwhile, half of institutions still formally discourage or prohibit AI β a policy gap with real consequences.
In its first year, the Trump administration's second term delivered the largest federal shock to American higher education in modern history. Over $12 billion in funding was disrupted. International student enrollment fell 17%. Harvard and Columbia became flashpoints. DEI programmes disappeared. Here is what is happening inside American universities.
AI threatens 12% of the US workforce, college enrollment is projected to fall 13% by 2041, and only 12% of the 1.1 million credentials offered lead to meaningful wage gains. Yet Deloitte's 2026 higher education report signals a surprising revival of the humanities.