Empathy with students is important – but it is very difficult His experience teaching in Iraq has underlined for Jack R. Williams the perils of simply extrapolating from personal experience By Jack R. Williams 7 February
Minister: traditional higher education model ‘no longer relevant’ Long-standing divides between schooling, employment and industry will be disrupted, predicts Singapore MP By Joyce Lau 5 February
India hands ?5 billion budget to new research funder Budget also aims to cut bureaucracy and open up internationalisation avenues By Joyce Lau 5 February
Japan raises funds for ?70 billion university research endowment But the eye-popping amount comes with caveats, experts say By Joyce Lau 4 February
Myanmar coup ‘could stall decade of?higher education development’ Experts call on global community to support Burmese scholars By Joyce Lau 3 February
China’s postgraduate boom will not solve underemployment crisis Encouraging pandemic-hit graduates to continue their studies will only delay problems unless universities embrace student employability, says Sabrina Wang By Sabrina Wang 2 February
Student ‘forced to drop out’ after anti-discrimination speech Expert fears that sexual minorities are ‘invisible and muted’ across Chinese campuses By Jing Liu 1 February
Australia urged to understand ‘social impact’ of Asian exchange More ‘coherent’ mechanism is needed to develop regional ties, expert says By Joyce Lau 23 January
Academic calls for press boycott over cancellation of Thai book National University of Singapore Press criticised over decision to scrap publication of title critical of country’s rulers By Joyce Lau 22 January
Chinese universities told student cheating could cost them funding Campuses rated below par for three years in a row could be asked to suspend undergraduate recruitment By Jing Liu 20 January
Managerialism debated as Chinese scholars protest over tiny bonuses Academics at Southwest Minzu University complained of bonuses as small as 91p – or even negative awards By Jing Liu 19 January
Don’t let coronavirus hang internships out to?dry Life in the age of Covid does not lend itself readily to students internships, but there are alternatives, says Benjamin Tak Yuen Chan By Benjamin Tak Yuen Chan 18 January
