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Warwick holds its own in Southeast Asia
Warwick University has bucked the trend for recruitment in Southeast Asia despite the financial crisis in the region. It has increased its number of Southeast Asian students by more than 9 per cent,...
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Australia and Asia: the academic foreign exchange
John Ross examines the state of cross-study and collaboration between Australia and its neighbours in the East
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Asia's deadly enigma
Question: which country suffers famine, launches missiles over its neighbours and prints counterfeit dollar bills? Answer: the secret Stalinist state of North Korea. Aidan Foster-Carter reports...
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APHEN brings Asia together
A Unesco project is linking academics in 12 Asian countries via the Internet, writes Geoff Maslen in Melbourne Universities in Commonwealth and certain Asian countries are promoting multilateral...
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Singapore is 'Asia lite' for Western universities
But Western institutions in the city state may need to relax ‘normative’ views of free enquiry, Nanyang Technological University’s head tells John Morgan
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THE Awards Asia 2019: shortlist announced
More than 30 institutions from 13 territories in running for inaugural awards
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Academic blind spot in Asia
We are accustomed to the history of Orientalism in the West and its politically correct extension, the field of Asian studies. We are less aware, however, of Asian efforts to study one another's...
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Women's lib in Asia
AN INDIAN academic who held The THES Exchange Fellowship in 1997 has carried out a comparison of the legal status of women in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Uma Devi, reader in law at Sri...
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Gag on Asia haze scaremongers
Academics in Malaysia are only barred from publicising their findings on the health effects of the haze and not on other sensitive issues, said education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. His...
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Times Higher Education to launch THE Awards Asia
Inaugural ceremony to build on success of long-running UK-focused awards
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Asia to turn Japanese
Universities in Asia are paying a great deal of attention to the people who have made the region's economic revolution possible. These are the wealth-minded national leaders and the businessmen whom...
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False dichotomy for Asia
Perhaps the emergence of democracy in East Asia is not so different from the western experience during the 18th and early 19th centuries. In both cases, "social changes induced by rapid economic...
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False dichotomy for Asia
It is rather disappointing that Michael Leifer (THES April 21) has chosen to rely uncritically on popularised conceptual categories in his analysis of the East Asian situation without reflexively...
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Singapore university events ‘must be in national interest’
Government says that higher education institutions manage their own events but that it?might?advise them to “respect…wider social norms”