Higher education
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China’s threat to academic freedom in the UK | Letters
Sara Rydkvist, the Hong Kong programme director of Amnesty International, and Francis Bown on the threat from …
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Lord Desai obituary
Economist who reassessed Karl Marx’s view of the durability of capitalism and wrote on Indian culture and hist…
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Chinese tech firms freeze AI tools in crackdown on exam cheats
Suspension comes as 13m students take four-day gaokao tests for limited spots at country’s universitiesBig Chi…
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‘Total discrimination’: Chinese students facing US visa ban say their lives are in limbo
Across the US, hundreds of thousands of Chinese students are now uncertain about their academic future and som…
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‘They are in shock’: Indian students fear Trump has ended their American dream
Those hoping to study in US are in limbo or looking elsewhere after president’s targeting of foreign studentsF…
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Chinese university sacks professor after social media accusation of sexual harassment
Doctoral student at Renmin University of China school of liberal arts in Beijing posted recordings on WeiboA t…
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Man arrested after four US academics stabbed in park during China visit
Group from Cornell College and a Chinese person who tried to help have non life-threatening injuries after att…
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Rishi Sunak backtracks plan to restrict graduate visas after cabinet opposition
Ministers argued for radical crackdown on visas would be damaging for universities and UK economyPlans for a r…
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Mental health leave offered to Taiwanese students as youth suicides double
Scheme allows three days off each term as high school stress and depression rates soarTaiwanese high schools w…
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Academic paper based on Uyghur genetic data retracted over ethical concerns
Exclusive: Study published in 2019 used blood and saliva samples from 203 Uyghur and Kazakh people living in X…
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Glum Chinese graduates go viral with pictures of misery amid jobs anxiety
Photos shared on social media show students draping themselves over park benches or stairs in poses of dejecti…
- Asia Pacific, Business, China, Chinese economy, Education, Higher education, Society, Unemployment, World news
China’s 11.6m graduates face a jobs market with no jobs
With youth unemployment at a record high, the problem of overeducated young people is acuteWith a master’s deg…
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China overtakes US in contributions to nature and science journals
Citations of Chinese research have risen because of sequencing of Covid-19 genomeChina has overtaken the US to…
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‘Being a girl is a heavy crime’: Afghan women in despair over university ban
Taliban prohibit female higher education indefinitely amid international condemnationIt was late evening in Ka…
- Asia Pacific, China, Coronavirus, Education, Higher education, Students, UK news, University of York, World news
Chinese students in UK told to ‘resist distorting’ China’s Covid policies
Exclusive: comments by diplomat involved in recent Manchester clash appeared threatening, student saysA senior…