Alex Nahornyi

Alex Nahornyi is a press consultant and education journalist based in Silistra, Bulgaria. He covers global higher education policy, international student mobility, and the impact of technology on learning for 3LNews. His reporting draws on primary sources across Europe, Asia, and Africa, with a focus on how policy decisions shape real outcomes for students and institutions.
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Productivity

When Studying Slips, Mental Health Is Often the Quiet Reason

Mental health pressures are delaying student progress as universities struggle to balance academic demands, wellbeing support, housing shortages and financial stress.
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🌍 Policies & Global Trends

When Campuses Become Diplomacy: Inside the India–Germany Higher Education Push

India and Germany deepen education ties as German universities consider campuses in India, reshaping student mobility, skills pipelines, and global higher education.
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Grants

Japan Joins Horizon Europe, and Researchers Feel the Shift

Japan joins Horizon Europe, giving researchers new momentum as global collaboration tightens and universities search for stability beyond traditional partners.
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Higher Education

British Degrees Abroad Are Surging, but Not for the Reasons Many Assume

British transnational education is expanding fast, revealing how global demand favors the UK system brand over individual universities worldwide.
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Corporate Training

Training Goes Online, and Everyone Is Learning on the Fly

Practical guide to creating online training modules that engage employees, improve skills, and fit real workplace learning needs today.
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AI & Education

Will AI Change COIL More Than We Expect?

How artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping COIL programs, challenging intercultural dialogue, human connection, and the future of global online learning.
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Higher Education

When University Rankings Stop Making Sense

Universities question regional rankings as volatility, reputation bias and commercial pressures raise doubts about fairness, transparency and real academic value.
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Government & Education

India Wants to Stop Exporting Students and Start Attracting Them

India aims to shift from exporting students to attracting global talent, reshaping higher education through internationalisation at home initiatives.
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Government & Education

Erasmus Is Coming Back. The Applause Is Loud, but the Room Is Complicated

UK rejoining Erasmus+ raises hopes for student mobility while questions grow over costs, access, and pressure on financially strained universities nationwide.
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Microlearning

Less Time, More Learning: Microlearning Finds Its Place at Work

Microlearning is reshaping workplace training as companies adopt shorter, practical lessons that fit modern work rhythms and employee expectations.
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The Laptop in the Room

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Who Owns Your Research?

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The Bibliography Is Not the Work

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The Branding Coup That Shaped a Generation of Students

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Japan’s Universities Are Disappearing. Some People Think That’s Fine.

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Asia Didn’t Come for the Rankings. It Already Changed Them.

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American Universities Are Losing the International Student Bet. Now They’re Changing the Game.

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UNESCO Wants to Reinvent the University. The Timing Is Either Perfect or Terrible.

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China Wants Breakthroughs. Its Universities Are Being Handed the Bill.

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The Choir That Meets on Campus Every Wednesday Knows Something HR Doesn’t

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Fixing the Wrong Thing: What AI Actually Exposed About How Universities Teach

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The Crisis in Higher Education Isn’t Intellectual. It’s Financial.

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Italy’s African Gambit: Education as Diplomacy, or Just Soft Power in Disguise?

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The Professor Problem: Why Women Keep Stopping One Rung Below the

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The Quiet Pivot in How Canada and India Are Thinking About Education

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Where do 300 million people go when there is nowhere to go?

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Sales training is not enough for companies anymore. They are finding this out the way.

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Qualified but Stuck: Why International Early Childhood Graduates Struggle to Move Up in Australia

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Defending Time in the Age of AI

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Are Universities Becoming Clones? Türkiye’s Accreditation Push Sparks a Quiet Debate

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