Asia

Students eager for campus life offer ‘no pushback’ to strict Covid measures being implemented by most universities, including keeping lunchtime conversation ‘to a minimum’

Legislative amendment sets out punishments for stealing or assisting stealing of someone else’s identity in university entrance exams

Critics says that 60, or even 65, is too young to end an academic career

The BJP’s permeation of every aspect of higher education will hamper India’s ambitions to be a world leader in research and innovation, says Aditya Sharma

Yoshihide Suga’s rejection of appointees to the Science Council of Japan may be opening shot in ‘symbolic war’, says professor 

Students and academics doubt government directive will shift long-standing power dynamic

Women on fixed-term contracts twice as likely to have moved forward or delayed plans to start a family compared with permanently employed

Widespread anger over cancelled registrations could have been avoided with better management, expert says

Chinese universities’ pursuit of excellence with socialist characteristics aims to put them in the company of Harvard and Oxford, says Futao Huang

Students stranded across the world, half a year since restrictions began, suffer from anxiety and loss of opportunity

Many of those crossing borders now likely to stay within East Asia, survey shows

Government should ‘pump in’ more resources for online infrastructure to address inequality, expert says