News Talks podcast: Is the Greater Bay Area the next HE hub?
We discuss the ambitions of Shenzhen and other cities in China’s Greater Bay Area to develop higher education systems that match their global economic and industrial clout
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Asia ‘will train future academic workforce’ for the world
Western educators are mostly oblivious to a change of guard in higher education, authors of a new ‘mapping exercise’ warn
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Visa squeeze ‘undermining offshore push’, says former minister
Both sides of politics eroding opportunities to meet neighbours’ needs and solve skill shortages back home, according to former Liberal power broker
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Can Hong Kong make an academic pearl of China’s Greater Bay Area?
The manufacturing powerhouses of Guangdong sit just across the border from Hong Kong, but the region has traditionally lacked the academic prowess that the former British colony has in abundance. A...
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Colleagues should not be cancelled for examining ‘enemy perspectives’
Academic debates should embrace political neutrality, professional judgement and the plurality of possible interpretations. The campaign against Ivan Katchanovski does not, say Dmitry Dubrovskiy and...
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Trump’s ban on paying open access fees ‘won’t cut costs’
Restrictions on how researchers can spend federal grants are unlikely to force publishers to lower costs, say publishing experts
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Emerald Publishing sold to Wiley for £337 million
Social science imprint based in Leeds is described as ‘outstanding strategic fit’ for American publishing giant
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Foreign students ‘crucial’ to Japan amid high graduate employment
Japanese students almost guaranteed jobs post-graduation as country’s population continues to fall, threatening future labour market
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Has TNE become the future of internationalisation?
With visa restrictions in the traditional ‘Big Four’ host nations, and source countries seeking to build their domestic capacity in an uncertain world, transnational education is regarded by many as...
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New Zealand increasingly competing with Asia for foreign students
Island nation continues to appeal to parents and students as some Asian nations turn from customer to competitor
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Megacompanies fuel Vietnam’s new wave of ambitious universities
Innovative models of higher education, unimaginable in the West, are emerging in a big, youthful country confronting a demographic and economic crossroads
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Non-Anglo countries ‘increasingly favoured’ for study abroad
Visa cost and ‘complexity’ among the factors pushing students away from traditional education destinations, survey finds