Languages face chop as Macquarie focuses on ‘cultural fluency’
Linguistic fluency ‘seldom achieved’ and peripheral to ‘the jobs of today and the future’, Australian university claims
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UK’s ‘high potential’ visa still ‘too focused on US universities’
Home Office list of top-ranked universities giving graduates visa eligibility adds two Chinese institutions, but?stretching to India?‘would boost UK employers’
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Asia-Pacific universities missing AI’s full potential, says study
Less than one-third of institutions are utilising technology that could boost innovation and fundraising, report?finds
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Eyewitness: Lifeline for South Asia's child labourers
Nepal's carpet industry has been a lucrative source of foreign earnings for one of the world's poorest countries, but its reliance on child labour has been heavily criticised. Children toil for hours...
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Central Asia to launch first course in mountain studies
The world's first university devoted to mountain studies is to be set up in one of Central Asia's most remote and rugged regions to focus international academic attention on mountain cultures,...
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China casts collaboration net wider as research ties with US wane
Drawing on Web of Science citation index, Clarivate report shows fivefold acceleration in published research output from China between 2009 and 2021
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Asia University Rankings 2015 results announced
Japan still ‘king of the mountain’ but balance of power shifts to neighbour
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THE podcast: Asia University Rankings 2015
The 探花视频 team discusses the results of this year's Asia University Rankings
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Leaders sanction Asia Pacific forum for research
Government and university representatives from across the Asia Pacific region have agreed to establish an education research network that will link universities, governments and industries. It is...
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US-China ‘paranoia’ is ‘hurting universities and students’
Restrictive US visa policy has caused a steep drop in Chinese students headed to US on exchange,?scholar says
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V-cs go it alone in Asia market
Melbourne. AUSTRALIA's top universities fear their share of the world market for students is slipping because of bad publicity in Asia. They identify two causes: adverse publicity around the anti-...
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Interview with Kabir Sheikh
Health researcher on bridging the policy-academia divide and navigating global health politics
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The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia, by Liam Matthew Brockey
Ana Carolina Hosne on a 17th-century figure who had ‘imperial ambitions’ for the Society of Jesus
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Can Hong Kong remain a global higher education hub?
The special administrative region’s status as an international crossroads has been severely shaken by the National Security Law and stringent Covid lockdowns. But sector leaders remain buoyant about...
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Universities ‘paying lip service’ to interdisciplinary research
THE analysis finds that high share of global institutions fail to recognise staff for cross-disciplinary working, as experts warn research environment is ‘still not up to the task’