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UAE seeks ‘global innovation centre’ status in strategy

The PIE News

The UAE’s ministry of education has released an innovation strategy in an attempt to promote “the development of creative ideas and capabilities”. It went on to say that proactivity and flexibility was at the heart of the plan – but creativity would be the main tool to “renew and radically transform” education methodologies.

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Scholar focuses on LGBTQ in China's universities

Inside Higher Ed

Despite an increasingly repressive environment in Chinese universities, there continues to be a “huge gap” in scholarly research on queerness in Chinese academia, according to Cui Le, a sociologist at the University of Auckland who has made it his mission to tell the world about the country’s largely invisible gay scholars.