Asia

Aims to move away from metrics-based evaluations floundering, study finds

Some students have not been able to leave country for more than two years, including long confinements on campus

Student protests ‘historically have ominous portents’ for country, scholar warns

Scholar who fled to Iran after torture says the experience cemented his resolve to teach human rights

India and Vietnam expected to keep up momentum, compensating for decline of degree seekers from China

Law experts call for broader effort to improve authors’ copyright interests

Cancellation of international exams and pronouncements on rankings trigger debate

Corruption only likely to get worse as higher education sector becomes more stratified, say scholars

Universities must ‘recalibrate promotion criteria’ to place more value on teaching, says scholar

Portion of overseas students remains low, with IITs reluctant to make concessions on admissions criteria

Pakistani scholars blast move by India’s University Grants Commission, calling it ‘discriminatory, illogical and unilateral’

Resignations from the Australia India Institute suggest that politicisation of university management is not confined to the mainland, says Mukhtar Ahmad