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Art and Humanities / Opinions

Ravinder Kaur: From ‘Third World’ to ‘Emerging Market’

Nicklas Kirchertby Nicklas Kirchert

To talk about development is to talk about change. And along the notion of change comes the idea of ‘the new’. The notion of development goals for the future world has been around for quite some time. In this article we look at the contemporary notion of change and ‘the new’ in the region generally referred to as the ‘developing world’. This article specifically focuses on the rise of India as a ‘brand new nation, and how we went from talking about ‘developing countries’ or ‘Third World’ countries to ‘Emerging Markets’.

Clean water and sanitation / Climate action / Opinions / Partnerships for the goals

MUCED: Personal development, educational development at universities and practical environmental development in the Malaysian society

Berit Viufby Berit Viuf

One of the first Malaysian students to benefit from the MUCED programme was professor Suhaimi Abdul Talib. In 2001 he went to Denmark to work on his Ph.D. project Anoxic transformations of wastewater organic matter in sewers – process kinetics, model concept and wastewater treatment potential. During two periods of three months, he had his day-to-day work in the laboratories of Institute of Environmental Engineering at Aalborg University.

Partnerships for the goals / Resources / Zero hunger

Gulu: When a PhD Student Investigates the Relevance of a University to the Neighbouring Community

William Odinga Balikuddembeby William Odinga Balikuddembe

When Asaf Adebua in 2017 started to study for his PhD at Gulu University ‘The Contributions of Institutions of Higher Learning to Post-war Community Transformation: The Case of Gulu University in Gulu District’, he was investigating the relevance of his university to the community it targets to transform, going by the university’s motto, For Community Transformation.

Good health and well-being / News / Partnerships for the goals / Peace, justice and strong institutions

Ethnographic Research: One Man’s Long Journey to PhD

William Odinga Balikuddembeby William Odinga Balikuddembe

Sulayman Mpisi Babiiha’s PhD experience represents the epitome of perseverance of an academic. His account is touching, but because he speaks with so much calmness, I can take it in with some ease. He has been pursuing his PhD certificate for ten years and he won’t give up the hope yet.

Decent work and economic growth / Opinions / Quality education

Uganda’s Lost Generation: “A Double Strand Approach to Education Could Be the Best Option”

William Odinga Balikuddembeby William Odinga Balikuddembe

13 years ago, the armed conflict in Northern Uganda ended. Government forces fought the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels. Local and international groups have invested a lot of resources in the region in an attempt to return it to decency. Today, perhaps nothing worries them more than the children of the war and their offsprings, described as The Lost Generation.

Opinions / Quality education

Director of DUCED, Niels Thygesen: ‘A well-functioning educational sector is the key to development’

Berit Viufby Berit Viuf

‘When it comes to capacity building in higher education systems, it is much harder to show direct evidence of the development effect in society’ says Niels Thygesen, Director of DUCED I&UA almost 20 years ago, ‘the effect of the DUCED/LUCED programme was massive in the targeted countries; the initiatives implemented almost 20 years ago have rubbed off even to this day’.

Art and Humanities / Good health and well-being / Reviews

REVIEW: Veronica Velasco’s Nuuk at the Copenhagen Asian Film Festival (CAFF)

Nicklas Kirchertby Nicklas Kirchert

Veronica Velasco’s movie ‘Nuuk’ (2019) has been described elsewhere as “The Filipino Take on a Nordic Noir Film”. To what extend this claim plays a role in choosing Nuuk for the Copenhagen Asian Film Festival’s (CAFF) “Closing Gala Film” has not been expounded. However, a picture on Filipino immigrant diaspora in the Danish postcolonial region, is definitely a well-chosen theme to give special attention to.