With youth unemployment at a record high, the problem of overeducated young people is acuteWith a master’s degree in applied linguistics from one of Australia’s top universities, Ingrid Xie did not expect to end up working in a grocery store. But that …
続きを読むCitations of Chinese research have risen because of sequencing of Covid-19 genomeChina has overtaken the US to become the biggest contributor to nature-science journals, in a sign of the country’s growing influence in the world of academic research.The…
続きを読むTaliban prohibit female higher education indefinitely amid international condemnationIt was late evening in Kabul, and Sabra*, a fourth-year medical student, saw a WhatsApp message appear on her phone. In a university chat group for 38 classmates, a fr…
続きを読むExclusive: comments by diplomat involved in recent Manchester clash appeared threatening, student saysA senior Chinese diplomat involved in the recent violence against pro-democracy protesters in Manchester has suggested Chinese students in Britain sho…
続きを読むExclusive: two Chinese-sponsored aerospace research centres firms to close after warnings of ‘sleepwalking’ into aiding Chinese militaryImperial College will shut down two major research centres sponsored by Chinese aerospace and defence companies amid…
続きを読むMI5 chief says Chinese communist party targeting intellectual property across westFifty Chinese students have left the UK in the past three years after Britain tightened its procedures to prevent the theft of sensitive academic research, the head of MI…
続きを読む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…
続きを読むUniversity has said Philippines leader was awarded ‘special diploma in social studies’ in 1978, not a BAThe images of a besuited Ferdinand Marcos Jr, clad in a top hat and leaning nonchalantly on a Rolls-Royce, dating from his time in Britain in the 19…
続きを読む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…
続きを読む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…
続きを読む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…
続きを読む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…
続きを読むA group of 40 graduates of Australian universities, who consider Australia ‘their second home’, fear being murdered by a rampant Taliban for their connection to a liberal democracyA group of 40 Australian-educated Afghan nationals has written to Austra…
続きを読むExclusive: expelled from Fiji, Professor Pal Ahluwalia says he remains committed to University of the South Pacific’s ‘current and future leaders’The corruption-busting university vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia, deported from Fiji over his efforts to ex…
続きを読む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…
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