Asia

Controversial journal paper stirs debate on Asian wartime slavery

Expert questions government’s motivations for building another institution in troubled region

In Thailand, even school leavers with UK connections are starting to look elsewhere, says sixth-form head Sadie Hollins

Priority should be better teaching for domestic students and improved research performance, THE forum hears

Success of India’s education reforms ‘matter tremendously to the world’ but foreign institutions will not solve country’s problems, says former UK universities minister

India could be HE ‘giant’ if social issues were addressed, expert says

His experience teaching in Iraq has underlined for Jack R. Williams the perils of simply extrapolating from personal experience

Long-standing divides between schooling, employment and industry will be disrupted, predicts Singapore MP

Budget also aims to cut bureaucracy and open up internationalisation avenues 

But the eye-popping amount comes with caveats, experts say

Experts call on global community to support Burmese scholars

Encouraging pandemic-hit graduates to continue their studies will only delay problems unless universities embrace student employability, says Sabrina Wang