Hong Kong’s international talent push met with scepticism City plans to offer two-year visas to top global talent and extend post-graduation work permits By Pola Lem 24 October
Low-scoring students penalise lecturers despite grade inflation South Korean study of more than 125,000 teacher evaluations shows learners’ tendency to penalise their lecturers even amid overall rise in scores By Pola Lem 24 October
Academics under mounting pressure to join Iranian protests Pro-regime letter attributed to 10,000 professors condemns ‘aimless riots’ as students across the country call for change By Pola Lem 20 October
India’s low-quality degrees ‘mushroom’ online Even as institutions offering mediocre engineering qualifications go out of business, private providers are expanding into the digital space By Pola Lem 18 October
Indian academics ‘must choose caste or intellectual identity’ Universities’ policies of ‘inclusion’ have proven superficial and ineffective, say scholars By Pola Lem 15 October
The postdoc shining a light on the plight of China’s gay scholars Coming out becoming ‘increasingly risky’ on Chinese campuses, says academic who left the country By Pola Lem 14 October
World Academic Summit: China’s dip in research collaboration ‘temporary’ Asian superpower’s drift away from international partnerships a result of the pandemic, says president of National Natural Science Foundation of China By Tom Williams 12 October
World University Rankings 2023: China catching up with US as science power Global balance of research power shows signs of shifting as US stagnates and China improves By Rosa Ellis 12 October
World Academic Summit: universities ‘need mentors, not just top researchers’ Academics must work closely with students to foster innovation, says KAUST president By Paul Basken 11 October
IITs ‘must address admission hurdles’ to quadruple foreign intake Notoriously difficult entry exams may need to be amended for foreign applicants, say academics By Pola Lem 11 October
Concern as Hong Kong admits record student intake from mainland China While institutions welcome surge in applications, some faculty concerned that island’s universities might be ‘losing their feel’ By Pola Lem 10 October
Applicants to Indian universities need an accurate picture of what to expect Making appropriate decisions is difficult for students when information is scarce and inaccurate, say Kaibalyapati Mishra and Krishna Raj By Kaibalyapati Mishra 9 October
