Discomfort of being around poverty ‘good for students’
Wealth inequities ‘a learning tool’ in education geared to ‘whole-person formation’, forum hears
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Philippines commission spotlights university attrition rates
Quality and resourcing also front of mind for academic heading first comprehensive education evaluation in decades
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Historian’s comfort women trial was ‘cancel culture on steroids’
As seven-year case against South Korean professor Park Yu-ha concludes, academics say the deep political divisions that lay behind it are not going away any time soon
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Portuguese universities look to diversify international links
Government signals review of older US tie-ups and appetite for more Brazilian students, as leading rector says institutions do not have to build their strategies on English-language tuition
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Scholar ‘disinvited’ from conference ‘over husband’s activism’
‘As a female scholar, that is doubly insulting to me, to be reduced to being someone’s wife,’ says researcher barred from National University of Singapore
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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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UK’s ‘high potential’ visa still ‘too focused on US universities’
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ 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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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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Interview with Kabir Sheikh
Health researcher on bridging the policy-academia divide and navigating global health politics
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Universities ‘must crack lifelong learning or risk irrelevance’
Michael Fung, a former deputy chief executive of Singapore’s SkillsFuture programme, takes his methodology to Mexico and the developing world
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Universities ‘paying lip service’ to interdisciplinary research
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ 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’
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Parliamentarians want ‘nuclear’ crackdown on agents and colleges
Committee also wants ‘Team Australia’ approach, bankrolled by a levy, to ‘open doors’ in Africa, Asia and Latin America
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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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World University Rankings 2024: China creeps closer to top 10
North America has also revived while Oceania’s international outlook has dipped. Patrick Jack picks out key rankings trends
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Let’s use in-person conferences for interaction, not presentation
Annual meetings should be reimagined as spaces that enable connections – including with practitioners and the media, says Noam Schimmel