Asia tipped to follow US lead with open access mandates
Eastern authors ‘risk falling behind’ on visibility and rankings if their work remains behind paywall while US moves to open research, scholars warn

Eastern authors ‘risk falling behind’ on visibility and rankings if their work remains behind paywall while US moves to open research, scholars warn

A COP-style UN forum to coordinate and promote public education could help prevent natural hazards from becoming disasters, says Afroz Shah

Trailblazing physicist Donna Strickland hopes new institute will tackle waning public trust in science

The UK’s ‘rock star historian’ Peter Frankopan talks to Matthew Reisz about his ambitious follow-up to his Silk Roads chronicle and the perils of being seen as a modern-day sage

In the absence of domestic fee hikes and full-cost grants, world-class facilities will help maintain international student flows, says Ian Walmsley

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India and Malaysia take lead as best represented countries, followed by China

An internalised, colonial-era emphasis on exam grades is preventing students from deeper learning, forum hears

Data reveals that 48 universities in the top 200 have female presidents or vice-chancellors

As well-connected academic prepares to take the helm at her alma mater’s branch campus, she reflects on the opportunities – and challenges – for the institution and the nation

115 territories now represented in THE rankings measuring universities’ progress towards sustainability

Population boom and geopolitical shifts create positive conditions for institutions to set up shop in central Asia, says higher education minister

Even as Covid travel restrictions are lifted, Xi-era crackdown on freedoms is making on-the-ground research much more difficult

The Seattle University academic and novelist talks about satirising a type of male scholar who wins the plum posts, despite harming colleagues

Plugging gaps with higher fees paid by students from overseas has allowed institutions to dodge political battles over funding, but it won’t last