Universities are the aces in the political pack
Higher education is often cast as politically insignificant, but look closer and it is frequently a chip in the highest-stakes game around
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UK campus will teach China to open education to world, says dean
Wen Hai, head of Peking University HSBC Business School’s Oxford outpost, says venture will help foster collaboration between Britain and China
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Funding and state buy-in ‘key to reshaping Indian universities’
Government proposals to create large, multidisciplinary universities hailed as ‘important new drive’ but experts say they have ‘seen this play before’
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East Asia has ‘toxic academic culture’
Region’s universities must build a type of institution distinctive from those in the West, scholar argues
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Netherlands and Germany ‘most supportive’ of internationalisation
British Council research warns that Brexit ‘may affect future international engagement’ of the UK
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A networked university is a truly global one
Large-scale, transdisciplinary networks of universities represent the next phase of internationalisation, says Patrick PrendergastÂ
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Why UK universities should be developing AI with students in mind
When it comes to leveraging AI technology in education, UK higher education is a late adopter, says John MacIntyre
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Asia Universities Summit: Caltech's size a 'major advantage'
President Thomas Rosenbaum also defines his role as maintaining a culture ‘where people dream’
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Foreign students at Israeli university ‘made to work on farm’
Tel Aviv University launches investigation into complaints made by African and Asian learners on industry-backed master’s
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SOAS director warned that institution could run out of money
School’s new student intake fell by nearly 40 per cent in just two years
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Demand-driven funding ‘better than the alternatives’
Uncapped funding best way of dealing with demographic ‘kinks’, Australian forum told
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Haldane is science’s guardian angel
There is nothing devilish about government oversight of research, but the Haldane Principle checks more sulphurous instincts, says Paul Jump
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Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative boosting academic links?
Data on the growth of scholarly collaboration across Asia, the Middle East and eastern Europe suggest Beijing’s grand strategy could be having an impact
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World insight: the future of higher education in South Asia
We have reached a key moment in the development of the region's higher education sector, says Ismail Badat