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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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BNO visa holders from Hong Kong ‘a bridge to Asia’, UK told
Scholars urge home fees for young Hong Kongers but warn other former British colonies?could want similar concessions
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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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Sunway president: universities must focus on bridging frontiers
Sibrandes Poppema shares how his institution is strengthening links across countries and with industry and society
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Coventry University eyeing Kazakhstan branch campus
Proposed Astana outpost responds to country’s call for greater internationalisation of its higher education system
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THE Awards Asia 2019: winners announced
National University of Singapore takes top accolade at inaugural ceremony
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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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South-east Asian currency slide could hit student mobility
Studying abroad set to become more expensive in key target markets for universities looking to diversify intakes
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Canada and Australia lose allure for international students
US, with the looming possibility of a second Trump presidency, deemed a more reliable education prospect than its anglophone rivals
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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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Foreign branch campuses could make Greece a global hub of excellence
New legislation opens the way for quality-focused branches to drive up standards across a traditionally public HE sector, says?Ianis Matsoukas