Asia

While training courses and complaints bodies have been implemented across the subcontinent, their effectiveness in addressing harassment is widely questioned. Could more be done – or will female students and academics have to wait for a patriarchal generation to retire, asks Pola Lem

New government policy to limit academic brain drain from struggling regions seen as unlikely to succeed in face of powerful trends

Central government representatives are increasingly rejecting candidates selected by political foes in state governments, says Mukhtar Ahmad

Interim policy that allows students with overseas offers to study domestically instead may turn long term

Fadlo Khuri, president of the American University of Beirut, explains how his institution has coped with explosions, currency crises and Covid

Move to shrink governing body and reduce internal representation seen as rebuke for president Rocky Tuan

Decision ‘is in clear violation of Afghanistan’s obligations under international law’, says UN high commissioner for human rights

Iranian academia was previously going through a phase of chronic depression in terms of socio-political activism, says Roohola Ramezani

Scholars split on whether reforms – part of a wider relaxation of rules on doctorates – will tackle research fraud or whether they aim at the wrong target

Bizarre phenomena on Chinese university campuses go beyond manifestations of student boredom, according to academics

Move by Afghan government ‘opens door’ for more of its supporters to become lecturers, scholars fear

Tan Eng Chye discusses tense geopolitics, encouraging lifelong learning and getting past the split with Yale