France unveils new scheme to attract Indian students Emmanuel Macron reaffirms goal of welcoming 30,000 Indian students by 2030 during state visit Emily Dixon 2月 2日
Supervisor suspended after students allege academic misconduct Huang Feiruo placed on leave by Huazhong Agricultural University after whistleblowing report circulates widely Jing Liu 1月 31日
Party strengthens control of Chinese university administration ‘Heightened’ crackdown on academic freedom expected as party committees merge with presidents’ offices on leading campuses Patrick Jack 1月 29日
India’s teachers’ and students’ unions must defend academic autonomy Amid creeping political influence over universities, both academics and students are oddly quiet, says Mukhtar Ahmad Mukhtar Ahmad 1月 29日
PhD students protest against IIT’s ‘paper per semester’ rule Pressure to publish seen as ‘contributing factor’ to recent suicides, as Madras faces backlash on doctoral monitoring Jack Grove 1月 28日
THE Awards Asia 2024: shortlist announced Eighty finalists from 17 countries and territories in the running across 10 categories, as prestigious awards enter sixth year THE reporters 1月 25日
Government influence on university events ‘concerning’, says MP Jamus Jerome Lim, who raised issue in Singaporean parliament, says diverse ideas must be ‘allowed to circulate and be subject to debate’ Emily Dixon 1月 20日
Can internationalisation save South Korea’s emptying universities? As the domestic youth population plummets, Korean institutions are looking to international students to make up shortfalls. But can such a strategy compensate – and can it be enacted in time? Pola Lem reports from Korea Pola Lem 1月 18日
First joint UK-Australian branch campus to open in Indonesia Collaboration between Lancaster and Deakin universities aims to welcome first students in September Patrick Jack 1月 17日
Postgraduate growth forces end of Chinese ‘boarding school’ model Universities end offers of on-campus dormitories to career-focused master’s students Jing Liu 1月 17日
Singapore university events ‘must be in national interest’ Government says that higher education institutions manage their own events but that it might advise them to “respect…wider social norms” Emily Dixon 1月 13日