Amidst the accelerated restructuring of the global economic landscape, technological innovation, and industrial transformation, vocational education, as the core carrier of human capital cultivation, is undergoing systematic changes. Between 2022 and 2024, countries have gradually formed a dominant trend toward the modernization of vocational education through policy innovation and practical exploration. Against this backdrop, the landscape of global vocational education is undergoing a transformative shift, driven by technological advancements, economic changes, and evolving workforce needs.

Last year a ten-month old baby in the US was the first person in the world to have their rare genetic disease effectively cured through the use of CRISPR gene editing technology. But the roll out of CRISPR across a wide range of genetic conditions has been hampered by its inconsistency, and its potential to cause harm to healthy genes. Now a team of Melbourne scientists have used AI to develop a fast and accurate way to keep CRISPR in line.

Cities are expected to track sustainability progress with data that are often incomplete, outdated, or available only at national level. New research led by IIASA in collaboration with UN-Habitat finds that citizen science could address these gaps and support nearly 70% of global sustainability indicators, yet is currently used in only 4% of cases.