Soochow and Stanford professors win Yidan prizes
Founder of China’s New Education Initiative will use award money to expand programme’s reach to rural areas
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World University Rankings 2023: US stagnating, Oceania rising, and a weak point for China
The global picture is changing, as five countries enter the ranking for the first time – all of them in Africa. Rosa Ellis reports?
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US exchanges offer hope for University of the South Pacific
Biden administration comes to the party, as cash-strapped regional institution seeks new ‘development partners’
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Nusrat Ghani named UK science minister
Strong critic of Chinese human rights abuses takes on brief after hiatus of several months
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Europe and Asia set to oust US from lead in science and engineering
Brussels, 13 Jul 2005 Fifty years of US global dominance in science and engineering (S&E) may be coming to an end as America's share of graduates in these fields stagnates, while S&E...
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探花视频 acquires student events organiser BMI
Deal?will ‘transform the events landscape for students looking to study abroad’, says chief executive
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Myanmar sentences Australian academic on ‘trumped up’ charges
Hopes that formalisation of economist’s imprisonment could trigger his early release
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Australia to redraw its science priorities
Bigger focus flagged on Indigenous knowledge, climate science and critical technologies
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Fragility in the system
International students add hugely to the richness of universities. But are the risks of relying on their fees to?subsidise so?much fully understood?
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Can Japan’s ?10 trillion excellence drive transform its research?
Scholars warn that Tokyo’s cash injection will reward the few over the many, pushing top institutions closer to industry at the expense of basic research, social sciences and humanities
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Business schools are complicit in populism’s threats to democracy
The inequalities exacerbated by global capitalism must be challenged by institutions in the service of citizens rather than corporations, says Carl Rhodes
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Troubled waters for cash-starved University of the South Pacific
As biggest member state centralises power while failing to pay its dues, the headwinds battering the pan-regional university are getting a whole lot stronger
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Can Australia win the global tug of war for international students?
As it emerges from its Covid isolation, Australia is rolling back restrictions on foreign students and graduates in the hope of ushering more of them into its depleted workforce. But amid competitive...
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Student interest in studying Russian slumps as Ukrainian surges
Scholars say Russia’s war is to blame for decline in first-year students, with some noting ‘unprecedented’ increases in Polish and Ukrainian languages
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US mounts dramatic pivot to ‘place-based industrial policy’
Land of the free market outpaces UK’s muted ‘levelling up’ with?funding to leverage power of universities in struggling regions