Korea’s pipeline into Western universities is getting narrower
The closure of a domestic pathway that helped prepare Koreans for overseas study means recruitment from the country will get harder, says Kyuseok Kim
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‘Islands of internationalisation’ risk as central Asian hubs grow
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan urged to ensure domestic universities and research systems benefit from branch campus push
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Have Schwarzman scholarships helped change views on China?
Prestigious programme that has brought international scholars to Tsinghua for past 10 years aims to foster ‘more nuanced view’ of Eastern giant – despite ever-changing geopolitics
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‘Mismatched ambitions’: Stanford exits South Korean global campus
Elite US institution pulls plug on research centre in troubled internationalisation hub
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‘No easy way to deal with it’: Taiwan enrolments to slump again
Country projected to lose another quarter of first-year entrants in 16 years, with international students unlikely to fill the gaps
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Asia embraces philosophy and AI courses
Universities are fusing the world’s oldest discipline with one of its newest innovations. But ensuring a balance between learning technical skills and tackling big questions takes work
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‘Dirty politics’ dividing Bangladesh’s top universities
Backers of current government accused of a ‘witch-hunt’ for urging institutions to take action against alleged supporters of previous regime
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UK student visas down again ahead of crucial recruitment period
Numbers drop 11 per cent compared with this time last year as stricter UK government immigration policies take effect
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US ‘no longer place students want to go’ after latest visa rules
Restrictions on length of study and sky-high cost of staying to work pushing more students into considering alternative destinations
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Foundation pulls Oxbridge scholarships for Asian students
Hong Kong investment company scheme to concentrate on funding students to attend top Asian universities instead
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News Talks podcast: From exam leak to mass protest in India
We discuss why a leaked exam paper sparked mass protest in India, culminating in the resignation of a government minister and the promise of reform
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Onshore visa switch flags looming downturn for universities
More international higher education students are obtaining visas from within Australia, as government puts up the shutters to fresh entrants
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Asian business schools need local focus to succeed, says dean
Institutions must contextualise teaching and research rather than copying what happens in the West, argues head of Asia School of Business
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Security screening undermines UK universities’ EDI proclamations
Forcing Chinese nationals to identify themselves to institutional IT systems publicly stamps them as risks to be monitored, says Hu Chao
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Application numbers slump as Australia rejects third of visa bids
With China losing interest, India following suit and Nepal and Bangladesh routinely denied visas, universities’ overseas recruitment prospects look increasingly bleak