Course on K-pop star ‘signals rise of serious academic subject’
The University of Southern California launches module dedicated to Korean musician G-Dragon as academics report rising interest in non-Western cultures among students
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Back to campus drive encounters limited resistance in Asia
While staff protest efforts to cut hybrid working arrangements at Western institutions, university employees in Asia have long been back in the office full-time
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The UK’s copyright laws will hobble its AI ambitions
Without exemptions for commercial as well as academic data mining, the government’s AI for Science Strategy will fall flat, says Benjamin White
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Wendy Larner: ‘It isn’t easy to have your personal integrity impugned’
Cardiff’s January announcement of plans to cut 400 academic jobs and close several departments prompted a media firestorm that heaped opprobrium on its vice-chancellor. But she also received lots of...
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Study abroad halves among disadvantaged students
Post-Covid recovery bypasses the groups that have most to gain from overseas learning, according to new figures
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Indonesia turns to China to meet training needs in key sectors
New scholarship programme will keep 1,000 government-funded students in Asia in further sign of the ‘rise of China in science’
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Subsidised canteens are a must to address student food insecurity
Many students in Australia struggle to afford enough food, and expensive campus outlets are not helping, say Jane Dyson and four colleagues
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Indonesia to become ‘third largest sector by 2035’
South-east Asian country predicted to overtake US and Brazil in next decade but China and India to remain ‘big two’
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Downplaying antisemitism on campus discredits academia
Refusal to accept the scale of discrimination faced by Jewish scholars and students reflects a blind spot in academic thinking, argues Noam SchimmelÂ
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̽»¨ÊÓƵ Awards Arab World 2025: winners announced
University of Anbar takes home prize for Leadership and Management Team of the Year for work rebuilding its war-torn campus
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Is Canada still in the ‘big four’ overseas student recruiters?
End of ‘boom times’ for Canadian institutions could prompt them to be more adventurous, with ‘riskier’ recruitment and more branch campuses likely, say experts
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Dodgy behaviour ‘still rife’ in international education
Assistant minister doubles down on integrity measures, saying those who doubt the government’s determination ‘have rocks in their heads’
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Interdisciplinary Science Rankings 2026: results announced
MIT tops list for second consecutive year, but experts fear US universities will deem future interdisciplinary research projects too risky
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‘Pool resources and coordinate’ to keep language courses going
Australia should focus on training required number of fluent experts and leave basic translation to AI, Asia expert says
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Risk rating improvement ‘misrepresented’ by ‘dodgy’ elements
Evidence level system encourages scams while making little difference to institutional obligations, critic says