Higher education
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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…
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Imperial College to shut joint research ventures with Chinese defence firms
Exclusive: two Chinese-sponsored aerospace research centres firms to close after warnings of ‘sleepwalking’ in…
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50 Chinese students leave UK in three years after spy chiefs’ warning
MI5 chief says Chinese communist party targeting intellectual property across westFifty Chinese students have …
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Natubhai Shah obituary
My friend and mentor Dr Natubhai Shah, who has died aged 89, was a GP for almost 30 years before becoming foun…
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Ferdinand Marcos Jr urged to stop pretending he has an Oxford degree
University has said Philippines leader was awarded ‘special diploma in social studies’ in 1978, not a BAThe im…
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Dutch university gives up Chinese funding due to impartiality concerns
Vrije Universiteit will also return €250,000-plus it received in 2021 for rights centre that denied forced lab…
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Universities must not allow those killed in Tiananmen Square to be forgotten | Letters
Student unions should keep their memory alive, writes Peter van den DungenThe ruthless campaign by the Chinese…
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Taliban threatening Chevening scholars’ families, says MP
Caroline Lucas warns five of those studying in Brighton feel desperate about relatives’ safety in AfghanistanC…
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Afghanistan: former Chevening scholars accuse UK of abandoning them
Government has prioritised rescue of current scholars but estimated 70 alumni are still in countryA group of f…
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Australian-educated Afghans plea with ministers for visas to Australia
A group of 40 graduates of Australian universities, who consider Australia ‘their second home’, fear being mur…
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‘Integrity comes from the top down’: whistleblower vice-chancellor vows to fight on despite exile
Exclusive: expelled from Fiji, Professor Pal Ahluwalia says he remains committed to University of the South Pa…
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International students locked out of Australia by pandemic switch to UK and US
With Australia’s borders all but closed, many young people who long dreamed of an antipodean education are goi…
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‘My ticket out’: the Indian village where every family has an engineer
Students from a small community traditionally known for weaving are beating the odds to gain coveted universit…
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Māori academics call for national inquiry into racism at New Zealand universities
Discrimination against Indigenous students and teaching staff ‘deeply ingrained’ and endemic Nearly 40 Indigen…
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‘Witch-hunts’ and whistleblowers: University of the South Pacific in crisis
Vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia suspended, then reinstated after he alleged widespread financial irregularitiesF…