カテゴリー: Higher education
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…
Economist who reassessed Karl Marx’s view of the durability of capitalism and wrote on Indian culture and historyAn economist with a strong grasp of politics, Meghnad Desai, who has died aged 85, put telling the truth ahead of the pursuit of personal a…
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…
Across the US, hundreds of thousands of Chinese students are now uncertain about their academic future and some are considering moving awayChinese students in the United States are questioning their future in the country after the state department anno…
Those hoping to study in US are in limbo or looking elsewhere after president’s targeting of foreign studentsFor weeks, Subash Devatwal’s phone has not stopped ringing. Some of the calls have been from distressed students, at other times it is their pa…
Group from Cornell College and a Chinese person who tried to help have non life-threatening injuries after attack in Jilin provinceFour US college instructors teaching in China have been stabbed while visiting a public park, US officials have said.The …
Ministers argued for radical crackdown on visas would be damaging for universities and UK economyPlans for a radical crackdown on graduate visas that allow overseas students to work in the UK for up to two years after graduation look set to be abandone…
Scheme allows three days off each term as high school stress and depression rates soarTaiwanese high schools will begin offering mental health leave to students this month, to address rising rates of youth suicide and high levels of stress and depressi…
Exclusive: Study published in 2019 used blood and saliva samples from 203 Uyghur and Kazakh people living in Xinjiang capitalConcerns have been raised that academic publishers may not be doing enough to vet the ethical standards of research they publis…
Photos shared on social media show students draping themselves over park benches or stairs in poses of dejectionAs millions of young people in China graduate from university this month, the traditional pictures of joyful students throwing their hats an…
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 …
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…
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…