Asia

Battle over who should have final say over professorship appointments demonstrates difficulty in reconciling starkly different academic cultures

Tokyo could use figures to justify more heavy-handed sector intervention, academics say

But some academics remain wary, warning over Beijing’s ‘manipulation’ of student exchange for political purposes

Sector must meet demands of students who increasingly expect help landing a job, scholar says

As fund records ¥60 million deficit ahead of disbursement, academics voice concern over ‘strings-attached’ model

While Australia has long been a favoured education destination for the mountain kingdom, it now hosts a ‘major proportion’ of the population

‘Glocal’ scheme aims to boost universities outside Seoul and drive innovation in the face of demographic decline

Opening of colleges running at 10 times the rate of development of new universities

Use of the CSAT is likely to increase US enrolment of South Koreans but could bode ill for some of the latter’s domestic institutions, says Kyuseok Kim

China continued to produce more publications last year than anywhere else, according to new report

More than 500 scholars condemn South Asian University’s actions against faculty who supported students during hunger strikes

Weeks into the job, Freddy Boey promises to cut red tape, rethink teaching – and unsparingly weed out underperformers