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Niger students admitted to French universities for the 2023-2024 academic year have been stranded in their home country because of the recent coup d’état. The French embassy in the capital Niamey says 1,200 Niger students are due to attend higher education courses in France for the new academic year, with 456 recently admitted for their first year of study and hence requiring a French visa to travel.…

Tunisia’s clothing and textile sector driven ahead with its near-sourcing export promotion, despite the political turmoil facing the country, where President Kais Saied has since 2019 suspended parliament, dismissed governments, imprisoned opposition leaders, undermining judicial independence and helped fuel anti-refugee and migrant violence.…

A tech-focused educational entrepreneur and author has told University World News that the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) should prompt a reevaluation of HE’s three Rs, away from reading, writing and arithmetic, and towards “rhetoric, relationships and reasoning”. This is because AI will undertake so much textual analysis and writing in future, education will need to ask: “Where is the unique value of a human?”…

THE EUROPEAN and global fashion and textile industry is witnessing rapid technological advancements, requiring garment workers with specialised skillsets, notably digital, to meet evolving demands. Indeed, the November 2022 State of Fashion 2023 report (1) from strategy consultants McKinsey & Co made clear that after 18 months of robust growth (early 2021 until mid-2022) post Covid-19, the fashion industry is facing challenges, including inflation, the energy crisis and rising material prices, that increases its demand for skilled labour.…

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).…

FASHION sector companies, across the value chain, are making continued efforts to leverage the potential of new artificial intelligence (AI) systems to boost sustainability through reducing waste and optimising production.  

Apparel supply chain experts speaking to Just Style have stressed how leading brands from luxury to fast fashion retailers are investing in AI to improve the efficiency and sustainability of their business models.…

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.…

The European Commission has proposed new legislation offering more flexibility to food technologists creating new foods based on altering the genetic structure of plants. A new suggested EU regulation would create streamlined controls for plants created by ‘new genetic techniques’ or NGTs, that are less rigorous than the existing assessments and restrictions undertaken for genetically modified (GM) foodstuffs.…

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has signalled that national judicial reviews of cross-border investigations by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) should be limited to procedural questions. During a cross-border investigation of a biodiesel fraud case, the EPPO’s European Delegated Prosecutor in Germany assigned the search and seizure of potentially incriminating documents and hardware to an assisting European Delegated Prosecutor in Austria, who in line with Austrian law obtained judicial warrants.…

Fashion brands have been warned to step up online security as the industry becomes increasingly digitalised and Russian hackers pose an increased risk as the country’s military struggles to maintain its invasion of Ukraine. 

While digitalisation brings enhanced sustainability, reduced waste, stricter inventory management, personalised designs, smart wearable tech garments, AI-enabled virtual fittings and integrated supply chains, increasing online data offers bad actors additional attack vectors, said Maryland, US-based cyber exposure management company Tenable. …