Asia

Move offers alternative to testing centres used by thousands of international students to enter Western universities

Just a handful of applicants for national project tackling issue

In the third decade of the so-called Asian century, European and North American universities and governments continue to neglect the world’s most populous continent. As Asia grows ever more powerful, this must change, scholars tell Joyce Lau

Official censure comes amid claims that pioneering institution is only ‘a Chinese college that bears Nottingham’s name’

Prestigious Sage robotics title pulls papers over concerns its peer review was ‘subverted’ by China-based academics

University ‘keen to engage’ staff and students on ‘merger’, while sidestepping inconsistencies in proposal

Country concerned about likes of Elsevier ‘seizing’ distribution of scientific output

A new consortium will embody the spread of liberal arts beyond the West, say Bryan Penprase and Thomas Schneider 

University leaders would not exercise freedom even if the state did not have them under its thumb, says Maszlee Malik

Anhui launches ‘marriage assistance project’ in response to concerns that too many graduates are going elsewhere

College’s defenders say its demise will dilute free expression, but education minister says its original critics opposed it for the same reason

Ministry of Education says it does not ‘support or encourage’ institutions setting up outposts beyond their home province