Asia

Education ministry steps in after competitive university entrance exam cancelled

Multinational conglomerates have long been in the university business, but can they really compete when it comes to impact? 

Paediatrician delayed by 29 minutes helping child patient “with high death risk”

University says students and staff are not “immune” from local laws but academics say institution should do more to protect learners

Increase necessary to keep up with cost of delivering degree programmes, government says

A decade of rule by the Hindu-nationalist BJP has seen a combustible mixture of technocratic reform and political interference in higher education. But the party’s below-par showing in this month’s general election has left some academics daring to hope for quieter days ahead. Helen Packer reports

City’s mayor ramps up university investment as South Korea continues decentralisation of the country’s education system

Quality regulation poses the biggest challenge as Bangladesh moves to expand PhD courses to private universities

The science is ‘just physics’ and the human chemistry matters more, says academic behind a sustainable development programme that’s going global

If rich countries poach your nurses you should ‘build more nursing schools’, conference hears

Academics attempt to move to public universities as private institutions hardest hit by declining enrolment

Most initiatives are well-meaning but ‘short-term, scattered, uncoordinated and incoherent’