Young University Rankings 2021: results announced Asian universities further boost their performance in list of world’s best universities founded during the past half-century By Ellie Bothwell 23 June
AI-powered virtual student enrols at Chinese university ‘Hua Zhibing’ to study alongside and interact with human learners By Jing Liu 21 June
Indian PhD enrolment up 60 per cent in five years Nationwide survey shows overall gains in capacity, enrolment and gender balance By Joyce Lau 19 June
Indian leadership vacuum raises questions over sector reforms Critics allege that political interference has caused delays to appointments By Joyce Lau 17 June
Going Global: foreign branch campus ‘top of wish list’ for India UK angling to put itself at front of the queue By Joyce Lau 16 June
Academic life for women ‘is like snakes and ladders’ Efforts will only go so far without changes to ‘mindsets’ in Asia, says editor of new book By Joyce Lau 15 June
Chinese students accused of ‘military ties’ lobby to re-enter US Trump-era rule means that visas can be blocked based on undergraduate university choices By Joyce Lau 14 June
Chinese student protests force U-turn on college mergers University-founded institutions were to have been combined with vocational schools By Jing Liu 11 June
Communist Party secretary ‘killed by lecturer’ on Fudan campus Wang Yongzhen stabbed at Shanghai university By Joyce Lau 9 June
Indian academics fear for historic archive Delhi redevelopment could put irreplaceable documents at risk, say scholars By Joyce Lau 8 June
Elite journals under scrutiny over role in Wuhan lab leak debate Critics argue that The Lancet failed to disclose potential conflict of interest when dismissing the leak theory By David Matthews 7 June
Asia Universities Summit: ‘penalty systems’ and ‘male allies’ address gender gap Covid has only widened gender inequalities among researchers, data show By Joyce Lau 4 June