Exposure, not ability, divides the global scientific community
Our symposium illustrates the contribution that students outside the scientific mainstream could make if given the chance, says Iván Moya
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China aims for ‘quality’ overseas students with admissions exam
Experts say introduction of compulsory test for all undergraduate courses shows country’s shifting approach to internationalisation
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China investors bet on Malaysia campus despite steep competition
New city-like development planned in Kuala Lumpur’s suburbs complete with fledgling institution headed up by former Nottingham Malaysia CEO
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Does Russia’s militarised system herald the future of HE?
It might be an extreme example but elsewhere, too, universities are being reimagined as state safeguards, say Maguatcher Jeremie and Chen Bateer
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While we worry about plagiarism, AI coaches suicide. Here’s how to respond
We need a holistic approach that teaches students not just to use AI but to survive its psychological terrain, say Sean McMinn and Nick McIntosh
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Indian branch campuses will not fill Australia’s looming China gap
Universities have 10 years to prepare for China’s demographic crunch. They need to start now, say Craig Jeffrey, Michael Simmonds and Donald Speagle
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Brexit led UK scholars to seek funding from China, study finds
Collaboration between British and Chinese scholars has increased over the past decade in the wake of the UK’s departure from the European Union
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Back to campus drive encounters limited resistance in Asia
While staff protest efforts to cut hybrid working arrangements at Western institutions, university employees in Asia have long been back in the office full-time
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Course on K-pop star ‘signals rise of serious academic subject’
The University of Southern California launches module dedicated to Korean musician G-Dragon as academics report rising interest in non-Western cultures among students
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The UK’s copyright laws will hobble its AI ambitions
Without exemptions for commercial as well as academic data mining, the government’s AI for Science Strategy will fall flat, says Benjamin White
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Wendy Larner: ‘It isn’t easy to have your personal integrity impugned’
Cardiff’s January announcement of plans to cut 400 academic jobs and close several departments prompted a media firestorm that heaped opprobrium on its vice-chancellor. But she also received lots of...
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Study abroad halves among disadvantaged students
Post-Covid recovery bypasses the groups that have most to gain from overseas learning, according to new figures
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Indonesia turns to China to meet training needs in key sectors
New scholarship programme will keep 1,000 government-funded students in Asia in further sign of the ‘rise of China in science’
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Subsidised canteens are a must to address student food insecurity
Many students in Australia struggle to afford enough food, and expensive campus outlets are not helping, say Jane Dyson and four colleagues
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Indonesia to become ‘third largest sector by 2035’
South-east Asian country predicted to overtake US and Brazil in next decade but China and India to remain ‘big two’