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African participation surpasses North America for the first time
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HKU council ‘bullying’ vice-chancellor, says Nobel prizewinner
Chemistry laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart claims University of Hong Kong leader is victim of ‘tall poppy syndrome’
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Massive increase to Australian student visa fees
‘Outrageous impost’ to fund domestic education initiatives is ‘robbing Ranjit to pay for Richard’
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The tactics of Asia's top tiger
From Third World to First
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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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How Asian universities entered the semiconductor ‘chip wars’
With more countries keen to capitalise on the lucrative industry, policymakers and companies are leaning on universities to address talent deficits
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Asia in a state of Confucian
Asian Values and Human Rights
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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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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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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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Striving for impact
The challenges facing the planet can seem overwhelming, but a landmark THE event in Bangkok heard reasons for optimism amid the maelstrom
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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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THE Asia University Rankings 2021 digital edition
Unlike their Western counterparts, many East Asian institutions have escaped the pandemic fallout from the absence of international students, and are flourishing with state investment and support