Pandemic online learning here to stay? Korean students think not Growing impatience with online learning in South Korea highlights the limitations of socially distanced teaching, says Justin Fendos By Justin Fendos 5 January
Hong Kong university to close ‘Mecca for China studies’ Invaluable Mao era materials will be digitised on an open-access platform By Joyce Lau 4 January
Fresh Asian border restrictions frustrate academics and students One academic faces five weeks of quarantine, while many students can’t travel to campus at all By Joyce Lau 4 January
Stop ‘vilifying’ China, Beijing tells social scientists Ministry warns researchers against ‘degrading’ nation in pursuit of international journal publication By Jing Liu 4 January
Will Moocs rise again in Asia? China and India embrace creation of online courses to support universities that lack the capacity to create their own digital programmes By Joyce Lau 29 December
Most of higher education in Asia by 2030, professor predicts Hamish Coates calls for creation of transnational accreditation system to pull the region together post-Covid By Joyce Lau 24 December
Nature Communications retracts criticised paper on female mentors Authors express ‘deep regret’ after independent review finds conclusions of research are not supported By Ellie Bothwell 21 December
Privacy fears as China keeps tracking student locations Daily check-ins launched during the Covid outbreak appear to be increasingly normalised By Jing Liu 21 December
Indonesian universities’ residency fees are driving doctors abroad It makes no sense for universities to control all pre-specialism, hospital-based training, says Fistra Janrio Tandirerung By Fistra Janrio Tandirerung 20 December
Taiwanese scholars slip through cracks of UN rules on China ‘Confusion’ over UN rules leads event organisers to bar students, experts or groups By Joyce Lau 17 December
British-Iranian gender expert jailed for nine years in Iran UK-educated scholar is outspoken about the unjust treatment of girls and women By Joyce Lau 14 December
Nandini Sundar: academic freedom is in peril if scholars don’t speak up Sociologist who has shone light on some of India’s most oppressed people explains why she keeps up the good fight By Joyce Lau 10 December