Sars curbs Antipodean recruitment drive in Asia
A drop in recruitment of overseas students to universities in New Zealand and Australia due to the Sars epidemic could have a devastating knock-on effect for the institutions' incomes. The...
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Students studying for UK qualification abroad up 5 per cent
But more than 40 per cent are registered with Oxford Brookes, says Hesa
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News in brief - 10 July 2014
Vice-chancellors’ payGoldsmiths gives students a sayA London university has become the first in the UK to allow a student to join the panel that decides its vice-chancellor’s pay. A student will now...
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É«ºÐÖ±²¥ World University Rankings 2013-2014 results discussion
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014, published on 3 October 2013, saw the continued rise of top universities in East Asia - particularly in Singapore, Japan, South Korea...
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Eastern promise
I’m sitting in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (previously Saigon), a progressive and cosmopolitan metropolis that has an abundance of scooters and a vibrant cafe culture. With a distinctive Parisian feel...
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Quotas call for female vice-chancellors
Study proposes code of practice for recruitment firms to help address inequality
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The Army and Democracy: Military Politics in Pakistan, by Aqil Shah
Farzana Shaikh finds persuasive arguments in an analysis of democracy and military rule in Pakistan
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Still Ours to Lead: America, Rising Powers, and the Tension Between Rivalry and Restraint, by Bruce Jones
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman on a shrewd analysis of the global order
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Online window on India’s recent past
Five million pages available, from official reports to cinematic ephemera. Matthew Reisz writes
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Sino-Japanese Relations After the Cold War: Two Tigers Sharing a Mountain, by Michael Yahuda
Jonathan Mirsky on the politics and economics of the relationship between rapidly developing China and stagnating Japan
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Gag on Asia haze scaremongers
Academics in Malaysia are only barred from publicising their findings on the health effects of the haze and not on other sensitive issues, said education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. His...
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News in brief - 29 May 2014
IoE/UCL mergerAll done bar the due diligence?A merger of the Institute of Education and University College London is set to be completed by December after the institutions’ governing councils gave...
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É«ºÐÖ±²¥ podcast: Australian International Education Conference 2013
Download the podcastFrom October 8-11 2013, Canberra hosted the annual Australian International Education Conference, the largest international education conference in the Asia-Pacific region. The...
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East meets West in MBA for future masters of universe
‘Billionaires come to us to study’, Chinese business school dean says of his role in £77,000 joint course
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Japan takes Asian crown but rivals aren’t far off
Japan has been named Asia’s top country for higher education and research in Times Higher Education’s first Asia University Rankings.The University of Tokyo, which claimed top spot in the inaugural...