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USC is among the 5 best Brazilian federal universities in the THE World University Rankings 2024

The Times Higher Education (THE) published on Wednesday, 27 September, the results of the World University Rankings 2024, listing the best universities in the world.

In this edition, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) was ranked among the 801-1000 best in the world, and among the 5 best federal institutions in the country.

Universities are evaluated based on 13 performance indicators which are grouped into five pillars: Teaching, Research Environment, Research Quality, Industry and International Outlook. UFSC stood out in the Industry (64.2) pilar.

The Times Higher Education (THE) is a British magazine that publishes news and articles on higher education and prepares, annually, a set of rankings considered one of the most comprehensive, balanced, and reliable in the world. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 includes more than 1.904 universities from 108 countries/regions.

Access the full rankings results here.

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“Shades of Decolonial Voices in Linguistics” book cover.

On 12 September 2023, the book “Shades of Decolonial Voices in Linguistics” was published by Multilingual Matters. This is the second volume of the book series Global Forum on Southern Epistemologies, which is concerned primarily with exploring peripheralized ways of framing and conducting language studies in both the Global South and Global North – a concern which is not only epistemological, but also political, educational and social.

The current edition argues that Linguistics as a field of study has been shaped by colonization and needs a critical review. The work was organized by the Director of African Studies at Pennsylvania State University (USA) Sinfree Makoni, in partnership with professor Ashraf Abdelhay from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar), the Director of Family Literacy at the National Center for Families Learning (USA) Anna Kaiper-Marquez, the PhD student in the Department of Applied Linguistics, research assistant at the Global Virtual Forum and tutor for the KAUST program at Pennsylvania State University (USA) Višnja Milojičić, and the associate professor at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) Cristine Severo.

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From left to right: Faizal Carsane, Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho and Sulemane Seleja.

On Wednesday, 20 September, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) received a visit from the leaders of Universidade Técnica Diogo Eugénio Guilande  (UTDEG), a private university located in Maputo, Mozambique.

The Scientific-Pedagogical Director Faizal Carsane and the Director of Administration and Finance Sulemane Seleja were welcomed by the Secretary for International Relations at UFSC, Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho.

Prof. Dr. Faizal Carsane, current Scientific-Pedagogical Director at UTDEG, graduated in Economics from UFSC in 2002.

The purpose of the visit was to establish an international agreement between UTDEG and UFSC, enabling the academic mobility of the university community and other cooperation agreements between the two institutions.

The agenda included a visit to the University Press, a visit to the Socio-Economic School to analyze the possibilities of student and faculty exchange and of conducting joint research, and a visit to the School of Health Sciences to learn about the technologies used in the Dentistry program.