Applications are now open for the ACU Supporting Research Community’s first grants to support member universities in training their early career researchers. 10 grants are available to fund staff at ACU member universities to organise and deliver training for their early career researchers, including doctoral candidates. The training will equip researchers with essential skills to enable them to succeed in their careers.

Deadline: Monday 23 November at 23:59 GMT

The Internationalist is a new podcast series from The ACU that takes on the current debates in higher education. Episode 1 takes a look at equity, access and inclusion, addressing the question, Who gets to learn, who gets to teach?

Host Natasha Lokhun is joined by academics, students and practitioners from across the Commonwealth to address the question - how have universities responded to calls to decolonise higher education?  

Applications are now open for Commonwealth Climate Resilience Challenge Grants. Aimed at academic and professional staff of ACU member universities addressing climate resilience, the grants will support collaborative work focused on the Commonwealth Climate Resilience Network’s (CCRN) priority themes. Four grants, up to a maximum value of GBP 2,500 each, will be available for ACU members to meet the costs of a diverse range of projects. Email resilience@acu.ac.uk for more information

Deadline: 13 November, 23:59 GMT

Applications are now open for two Coventry University Fellowships. The Fellowships support collaboration at a distance by forging new research partnerships between Coventry University in the UK, and ACU member universities in other countries. As part of the ACU Digital Now strategy, this year’s ACU Fellowships will solely fund virtual collaborations.

Deadline: 12 November, 11:59 GMT

The ACU is pleased to be partnering with CHRIST University, India, for their virtual summit 'Future of Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges'. The pandemic has pushed the world to reinvent ways of working. This has introduced significant opportunities in higher education, as well as challenges going forward. This summit aims to bring together university staff to share experiences and reflect on the future of higher education.

The Commonwealth Secretariat have an opportunity for a leading education expert to help revise and develop their Commonwealth Education Policy Framework (CEPF). The consultant will be responsible for editing, updating and developing new content/material to the CEPF, based on global trends and developments. 

Closing date: 11 November

The British Council are inviting UK and Australian Higher Education (HE) institutions to put forward proposals for compelling activities or events to be delivered in Australia and/or digitally. The HE programme is an opportunity for UK and Australian universities to focus on common interests and areas where there is substantial common ground, and to explore and identify ways in which cooperation and collaboration can be enhanced in order to achieve long-term mutual benefit.

Closing date: 20 November, 17:00 GMT

What does decolonisation mean for higher education?Protests against racial injustice and demands to address historical wrongs are often accompanied by calls for decolonisation.The first epispde of the ACU's new podcast - The Internationalist - questions, ‘Who gets to learn, and who gets to teach?’.

The ACU is pleased to be a partner in the Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate (Climate U) project. The project aims to strengthen the contribution of universities in tackling the causes and impacts of climate change in lower-income contexts.

ACU Summer School: The Migration Generation? Climate, youth and refugees united students from across the Commonwealth to discuss multidisciplinary issues of global importance. Baimba talks to us about his ACU Summer School experience.