Despite population decline, Korea’s Kyung Hee aims for the SKY Leading private university pivots to graduate and international students as entire sector threatened by low birth rate By Helen Packer 6 June
Yale-NUS’ book dumping was a tiny crime against culture A library is not a fast-fashion store. You don’t discard last season’s items because nobody wanted them, says Andrew Hui By Andrew Hui 6 June
US curbs on Chinese students ‘free kick’ for Asian universities Chinese students begin to make alternative plans after Trump targets visas, but anglophone destinations not guaranteed to benefit By Helen Packer 1 June
Hong Kong PolyU sees jump in China applicants amid US tensions University president believes strained relations bring opportunities for Hong Kong’s development but warns international collaborations increasingly at risk By Helen Packer 29 May
Kazakhstan has ‘enough’ branch campuses, says HE minister Focus shifts to strategic partnerships and attracting more international students after foreign universities flock to Central Asia By Helen Packer 27 May
New tool challenges ‘hierarchies’ in collaborative research ‘Valuing voices’ checklist hopes to help academics to design research projects with ‘principles of inclusiveness’ in mind By John Ross 25 May
Transaction ‘supplanting collaboration’ in student recruitment Everybody loses if first-world universities do not share the benefits with source countries of doctoral students, university leaders say By John Ross 24 May
Hong Kong university opens doors to Harvard’s foreign students HKUST offers unconditional acceptance to international students at Harvard in wake of US government crackdown By Helen Packer 23 May
NUS U-turns after decision to bin 9,000 books sparks outrage Students criticise university for lack of transparency and wasting resources after thousands of books from shuttered college destined for recycling By Helen Packer 22 May
Imperial targets joint research projects with new India base UK foreign secretary hails partnership as way of strengthening scientific ties between the two countries By Tom Williams 21 May
White students ‘over-represented’ on Japanese university websites Internationalisation strategies will be damaged by heavy prioritisation of students from Europe and US, report authors warn By Helen Packer 16 May
Moving to UAE ‘like being dropped on Mars’, say émigré faculty Culture shocks experienced by international academics moving to Middle East put progress of universities at risk, study finds By Juliette Rowsell 15 May
