Nisha Nair

AI Literacy: Why Higher Education Institutions Can’t Afford to Wait

Remember when ChatGPT became a household name and shook things up? As everyone was trying to make sense of it, universities and research institutions were in a bit of a frenzy, even going so far as to ban generative AI1 while they figured out how to handle it. Fast forward three years, and the debate […]

Residency Match Process in the Age of AI: Has Anything Actually Changed?

For medical students, Match Day is the moment years of training, exams, and sleepless application cycles have all been building toward, an outcome that decides where the next chapter of their career begins. The system at the center of this process, which is run by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), is relatively straightforward.1 As […]

What Does it Mean for Universities to be AI-Ready?

Recently, Editage hosted the Saudi Research Summit in Riyadh, bringing together institutional leaders, government officials, and researchers to explore how the responsible adoption of AI can enhance research output, sharpen competitive positioning, and expand global academic influence.[1] This event underscores a pivotal shift: AI has transitioned from a peripheral topic in higher education to a central focus.   This shift also prompts another important […]

Sustainability in Higher Education: Building Competitive Advantage for Universities

The Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings, a ranking system that evaluates how universities contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), covered 2,526 universities from 130 countries in its latest edition, published in 2025 [1]. That’s nearly four times the number of institutions they assessed when these rankings first came out in 2019.  Over the last decade, we’ve seen a rise in frameworks that […]