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A key assumption at the UN’s High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) this month (July 10-19) https://hlpf.un.org/2023; https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-07/HESI%202023%20Global%20Forum.docx.pdf; https://sdgs.un.org/HESI/2023GlobalForum is that higher education promotes sustainability – a new initiative will help measure that progress.

That was the focus of a side event to the UN forum staged yesterday (Tuesday, July 18) by the Sulitest Association – a non-profit organisation and online platform seeking sustainability universal literacy and drives SDG adoption across higher education worldwide.…

The China-Central Asian Summit that took place in China’s Xi’an in May 18-19 will positively affect Chinese textile and related input sourcing well beyond Central Asia, analysts’ comments and Chinese-language media reports indicate. China’s President Xi Jinping used the event, that was also attended by the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, to unveil an ambitious plan to help elevate Central Asia to the next level of its development — from building infrastructure networks to boosting trade (1).…

The secretary general of the United Nations has called for a significant increase in education spending and investment so that targets in the UN’s sustainable development goal (SDG) for the sector are met. At present, said UN Secretary General António Guterres, in comments for the UN’s High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) this month (July 10-19) https://hlpf.un.org/2023…

The UN’s Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) is developing practical guidance for HE ranking organisations wanting to integrate the delivery of sustainable development goals into their assessments of universities and colleges.

This initiative – highlighted at a HESI global forum https://sdgs.un.org/HESI…

The president of the association of foreign lecturers in Italy (Associazione Lettori di Lingua Straniera in Italia – ALLSI), David Petrie, has welcomed the European Commission (EC)’s referral of Italy to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for its continued discrimination of foreign lecturers working in Italian universities.…

Algae, especially microalgae, have come to inhabit nearly every ecosystem on the planet, including some of the most inhospitable – offering ideal sources for bio-based oils and fats, some with potentially novel uses. Indeed, over time, each species has evolved specific biochemistries and metabolic profiles to thrive in each habitat niche.…

The Turks & Caicos Islands (TCI) has been improving its AML record, even as its courts have taken eight years to hear financial crime cases against former political leaders, including past Premier Michael Misick. He is charged with money laundering, conspiracy to receive bribes, and conspiracy to defraud the government, related to his 2006-9 tenure.…

While The Bahamas has recently been subject to unwelcome publicity about financial crime being committed on its territory, courtesy of the Sam Bankman-Fried scandal, its government has steadily been undertaking solid work to improve its AML/CFT performance.

Bankman-Fried, or SBF as he is widely known, is facing ML charges in the USA, which was part of the reason he was extradited from The Bahamas in December (2022), along with securities and wire fraud charges associated with his stewardship of crypto-exchange FTX (1).…

Time was that whistleblowing laws were a novelty. No longer – they are increasingly commonplace in developed economy jurisdictions and offer a widening range of protections.

Take the USA. A bipartisan bill was proposed in March (2023) by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren to strengthen whistleblower protections at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).…

The advent of large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT could be a major boon for anti-fraud professionals – but as with any innovative technology, it must be handled with care as the risks are assessed, experts warn.…