China moves to halt universities* eastern branch campus rush Ministry of Education says it does not &support or encourage* institutions setting up outposts beyond their home province By Jing Liu 15 September
Chinese universities ticked off for ideological education &gaps* Inspectors tell Ministry of Education to &study deeply and systematically about Xi Jinping*s thoughts on education* By Jing Liu 14 September
India*s bet on liberal arts will fail without more investment Amid languishing quality, introducing what could be a more expensive curriculum to deliver may not boost employability, says Pushkar By Pushkar 12 September
Administrative empire-building may have sealed Yale-NUS* fate Headlines about whether the liberal arts can work in Asia only probe part of the story, says Scott Anthony By Scott Anthony 10 September
We need authoritarian-proof higher education models Following the military coup, Burmese faculty and students fear annihilation of a budding modern higher education system, says Kyaw Moe Tun By Kyaw Moe Tun 6 September
After Yale-NUS divorce, can liberal arts survive in Asia? Fait accompli shutdown &a metaphor for the decline of Western liberalism in Asia*, say experts after Singapore decision By John Ross 3 September
Get at-risk research collaborators out of Afghanistan, UK told Ministers &negligent* over failure to issue visas to scholars and activists who worked with British-based academics By John Morgan 3 September
World University Rankings 2022: can China make the top 10? THE data reveal the areas where China*s top universities are ahead of their global peers and where they have the most ground to make up By Ellie Bothwell 2 September
World University Rankings 2022: results announced Universities that published high-impact research on Covid-19 have soared up the league table, with China reaping the most rewards By Ellie Bothwell 2 September
Saikat Majumdar: universities feel in the middle of everything Ashoka University professor and novelist discusses academic life in the US and India, as well as his next novel, which explores &the ethics of education* By Joyce Lau 2 September
Universities must rediscover the value of listening to those beyond the campus We should build education and research on an embrace of others and a regard for diversity that does not stop at the campus gate, says Teruo Fujii By Teruo Fujii 1 September
What now for Afghan universities? Twenty years of progress hangs in the balance, says Rahmatullah Katawazai By Rahmatullah Katawazai 1 September