カテゴリー: Universities
Notoriously difficult entrance exam is regarded as gateway to economic security and even a good marriageThe chief organiser of South Korea’s notoriously gruelling university entrance exams has resigned – after complaints that an English test he designe…
Sara Rydkvist, the Hong Kong programme director of Amnesty International, and Francis Bown on the threat from China to academic freedom on British campusesYour report (UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China, 3 November) is…
Suspension comes as 13m students take four-day gaokao tests for limited spots at country’s universitiesBig Chinese tech companies appear to have turned off some AI functions to prevent cheating during the country’s highly competitive university entranc…
Japanese police say 22-year-old woman arrested as witness describes panic after attacker ‘all of a sudden’ began swinging hammer in classroomEight Tokyo university students attacked with a hammer in a classroom were recuperating and none required hospi…
My friend and mentor Dr Natubhai Shah, who has died aged 89, was a GP for almost 30 years before becoming founding CEO of the Jain Network. The aim of the network is to bring awareness of the ancient Indian religion of Jainism to the western world. Jai…
Students who speak out against royal family’s role in universities face jail but can also be pressured by pro-monarchy parentsWhen 24-year-old Krai Saidee returned to his alma mater Chiang Mai University on 14 January, nearly two years after his gradua…
Vrije Universiteit will also return €250,000-plus it received in 2021 for rights centre that denied forced labour camps exist in XinjiangA decision by a leading Dutch university to refuse all further Chinese funding for a controversial study centre has…
Student unions should keep their memory alive, writes Peter van den DungenThe ruthless campaign by the Chinese government to extinguish all memories of the massacre at Tiananmen Square has now resulted in the removal of the sculpture from the campus of…
Site of the Pillar of Shame at the city’s oldest university is under guard after workmen dismantled statueHong Kong’s oldest university has removed a statue mourning those killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and posted guards at the site where…
Caroline Lucas warns five of those studying in Brighton feel desperate about relatives’ safety in AfghanistanChevening scholars from Afghanistan are receiving threatening messages from the Taliban about what they intend to do to harm their relatives ba…
Government has prioritised rescue of current scholars but estimated 70 alumni are still in countryA group of former Chevening scholars have accused the British government of abandoning them in Afghanistan, where they say their lives are at grave risk f…
Jane Ghosh thinks we have left behind devastation and despair, Trevor Curnow looks at parallels with Vietnam, while Daniel Peacock expresses concern for a generation of women and girls. Plus letters from Martin Harris and Caroline WillcocksThe history …
With Australia’s borders all but closed, many young people who long dreamed of an antipodean education are going elsewhereSabid Hossain and his three friends knew what university they were going to. They had been planning it, he says, since he was in e…
The Hindu nationalist regime has cultivated religious animosity – undermining the nation’s secular traditionsNothing is as important, the philosopher Immanuel Kant claimed, as the “freedom to make public use of one’s reason on all matters”. Unfortunate…