Chinese province tries speed dating to retain graduates Anhui launches ‘marriage assistance project’ in response to concerns that too many graduates are going elsewhere By Jing Liu 19 September
Yale-NUS closure ‘nothing to do with academic freedom’ College’s defenders say its demise will dilute free expression, but education minister says its original critics opposed it for the same reason By John Ross 17 September
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