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
Measuring teaching in a time of Covid Assessing pedagogy is even more challenging during the pandemic, but initial results from our Japan student survey reveal some interesting insights, argues Duncan Ross By Duncan Ross 9 December
Student activism challenges China¡¯s cult of the supervisor Professors accused of misconduct brought down by online complaints By Jing Liu 8 December
Chinese ¡®revert to favouring Western study destinations¡¯ Survey suggests move to regional mobility may have been temporary response to pandemic By Ellie Bothwell 7 December
Hong Kong brain drain predicted as West launches ¡®lifeboats¡¯ Experts predict a post-Covid wave of emigration to the West, but university enrolment likely to unscathed By Joyce Lau 3 December
Elsevier reaches open access agreement in Japan Proposal is first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region for the world¡¯s largest academic publisher By Joyce Lau 1 December
Malaysian universities given funds to ¡®weather the?pandemic¡¯ Budget, seen as ¡®remarkable commitment¡¯ to education, could be leveraged to improve IT and teaching quality By Joyce Lau 1 December
South Korea launches Covid crackdown before entrance exam Experts say the crisis should have been used as a good opportunity to rethink a notoriously stressful assessment system By Joyce Lau 28 November