Alarm over choice of new leade...
Yojana Sharma A new non-Uyghur head of the top university in China’s troubled northwest Xinjiang province, home to China’s Uyghur...
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Universities are key to achiev...
Brendan O’Malley – Universities have demonstrated to the world during the COVID-19 crisis why their expertise matters and why...
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Ying Yang, Dr Jenna Mittelmeier, Dr Miguel Antonio Lim and Dr Sylvie Lomer Universities that host international students face grim...
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Geoff Maslen – The jobs of at least 12,000 university staff, at risk because of the COVID-19 crisis, have been saved under a...
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Nathan Greenfield – The Canadian government is relaxing the rules governing how many hours and where international students can...
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A growing number of prospective international students are considering changing their study abroad plans, a figure that is rising as...
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The world has never faced a pandemic like this. Globalisation contributed to the speed at which the virus spread across borders –...
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Geoff Maslen – In the first sign that Australia’s universities have become over-reliant on fee income from Chinese students,...
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Brendan O’Malley – The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have issued guidance in response to the...
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Mimi Leung and Yojana Sharma – A well-known academic in China has this week criticised the government’s handling of the...
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Mimi Leung and Yojana Sharma With internationalisation of higher education, the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak – combined with larger...
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Jan Petter Myklebust The high rate of drop-out at Danish universities, which includes one in three undergraduates, is due to poor...
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Stephen Thompson – It has been 25 years since the first issue of International Higher Education was published. By coincidence,...
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Louise Nicol – “In the 19th century, the world was Europeanised. In the 20th century, it was Americanised. Now, it is being...
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Yojana Sharma – Social sciences research in China, not as well funded in the past as the hard sciences, is undergoing an even...
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Simon Marginson – There are multiplying uncertainties in the higher education environment. We have been brutally reminded that...
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Geoff Maslen – More than 50 of Australia’s most distinguished professors have written to the vice-chancellor of Perth’s Murdoch...
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Bernhard Streitwieser – I was recently invited to participate in a European Union Horizon 2020-funded project in 13 European...
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Svein Stølen and Åse Gornitzka – A focus on core academic values must be the bedrock of global universities’ strategies for the...
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Yojana Sharma – A political row has erupted over a university president’s commitment in writing to back Hong Kong students...
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