Asia

As AI makes giant strides, threatening to digitise a whole host of graduate careers, the need to ensure that human employees can regularly upskill and retrain is more urgent than ever. An early pioneer of mass lifelong learning, does Singapore point the way forwards? Pola Lem reports from the Lion City

Academics warn that move to ‘stifle’ youth political involvement betrays ‘insecurity’ by ruling party

Beijing’s censorship of 2018 gene-edited babies case has prevented ‘crucial’ research ethics dialogue, says scholar

Ministry decision to allow universities to deny services to women without headscarves ‘will only reinforce people’s anger’, says scholar

Many learners reluctant to attend public institutions as this may ‘legitimise regime’, says researcher

Experts predict a race between institutions to show progress on Communist Party building and ideological activities

Campus shutdowns paused, as Haifa president says fragmented education is partly to blame for constitutional crisis

Afghan students find Indian universities continue to expect their physical presence, despite lack of visas

Literature scholar talks about life in Japan and being an academic single mother

Council for At-Risk Academics is fundraising to help displaced academics continue teaching

Administrators take ‘very clever’ strategy to ‘divide’ students by disciplining two of them harshly while letting others go, scholar says

Removal of students from dormitories has left many scrambling to afford lodging in city or return to rural homes, where online learning is ‘impossible’