カテゴリー: Higher education
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Students from a small community traditionally known for weaving are beating the odds to gain coveted university placesHe had tossed and turned all night. When he finally got out of bed at 4am, Anand Kumar realised his parents had too.The 17-year-old wa…
Discrimination against Indigenous students and teaching staff ‘deeply ingrained’ and endemic Nearly 40 Indigenous academics are calling for a national inquiry into racism at New Zealand universities, saying discrimination against Māori students and tea…
Vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia suspended, then reinstated after he alleged widespread financial irregularitiesFor decades a jewel in the crown of Pacific regionalism, the University of the South Pacific has endured 12 months of scandal, beset by allegat…