The week in higher education – 3 May 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Journals censorship is not bowdlerisation
Objections to the suppression of ‘sensitive’ articles should not be based on outmoded claims about consumption, says Michel Hockx
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The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia, by Liam Matthew Brockey
Ana Carolina Hosne on a 17th-century figure who had ‘imperial ambitions’ for the Society of Jesus
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How global trade deals could impact universities
Unions and universities worry that agreements could leave them vulnerable to for-profit competition and entrench privatisation
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South Asia online archive launched
Digital collection of 5 million pages aims to ‘open window’ on to India’s recent past
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India’s move on university autonomy raises funding alarm
Experts question whether 60 universities granted special status will face budget cuts or be free from interference
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Australia fears decline in Chinese students over ‘treason’ laws
Experts warn that prospective recruits may choose to study elsewhere if they do not feel welcome
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One in three students globally now in private higher education
Quality an ‘urgent concern’ as study reveals significant growth of private sector worldwide
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Managing the Wild: Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests, by Charles M. Peters
Excluding local people from conservation is not the way to preserve vital vegetation, as it is they whose practices produce the ecologies we value, finds Steven Yearley
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Research network aims to bring East Asia closer to UK
A new network has been launched at a UK university to help develop research partnerships between East and Southeast Asia and Europe
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US university revokes scholarships after going over budget
Fears over international impact of UT Tyler’s decision, with Nepalese applicants hardest hit
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Disciplines must relax if the big challenges are to be met
Faculties without borders are the key to turning multidisciplinarity into more than a buzzword, says Duncan Ivison
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Nationalist style politics will trigger a new wave of international mobility
Looking at past trends, Rahul Choudaha predicts the motivations and expectations of the next wave of global students
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THE Young University Rankings 2018: Millennial universities
The best of those universities founded since the year 2000
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Free education: at what cost?
As Malaysian politicians flirt with fee-free higher education, our Asia-Pacific editor John Ross, reflects on how promises of free tuition are often at the detriment of more useful policy