The week in higher education – 10 December 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Elsevier reaches open access agreement in Japan
Proposal is first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region for the world’s largest academic publisher
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Professorships launched to attract top scientists to Hong Kong
City’s leader announces sweeteners, while pushing engagement with mainland China
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Hong Kong brain drain predicted as West launches ‘lifeboats’
Experts predict a post-Covid wave of emigration to the West, but university enrolment likely to unscathed
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International education ‘weaponised’ as geopolitical tension rises
Conference also hears that online learning might present more equitable opportunities for cultural exchange
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Vietnam approves joint online courses
While reservations remain, the pandemic has smoothed acceptance of virtual delivery
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Neil Ferguson: delay in lockdown UK’s ‘biggest’ pandemic mistake
Ex-adviser to UK government praises global scientific community’s ‘remarkable’ response and criticises ‘false narrative’ that he was ‘responsible’ for lockdowns
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Role models and career support ‘key to keeping women in science’
Astrophysicists?in Hong Kong and France say that public perceptions of gender should?change and that more should be done to support women in science
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Fed-up overseas students begin lobbying for return to?China
Young researchers have been locked out of labs and clinics for 10?months because of?Covid
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Departure of Covid expert spotlights Asian retirement rules
Critics says that 60, or even 65, is too young?to?end an academic career
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Chinese interest in studying abroad plummets amid pandemic
Many of those crossing borders now likely to stay within East Asia, survey shows
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Gül ?nan?: adopt a socially engaged mindset
Time to break down barriers and improve global access for higher education, says academic leader in refugee studies
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China’s five-year plan to step up HE modernisation impetus
Universities urged to take opportunity to modernise, as?government’s next strategic plan set to boost research and technology
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Don’t ‘pull back’ on fundraising, ANZ universities urged
Universities ‘optimistic’ about pandemic philanthropy, as deeper pockets compensate for decline in donor numbers
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THE World Reputation Rankings 2020: methodology
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