After Yale-NUS closure, liberal arts in Asia will benefit from peer support A new consortium will embody the spread of liberal arts beyond the West, say Bryan Penprase and Thomas Schneider Bryan Penprase 9月 23日
‘Kowtowing v-cs’ denounced by former Malaysian education minister University leaders would not exercise freedom even if the state did not have them under its thumb, says Maszlee Malik John Ross 9月 20日
Chinese province tries speed dating to retain graduates Anhui launches ‘marriage assistance project’ in response to concerns that too many graduates are going elsewhere Jing Liu 9月 19日
Yale-NUS closure ‘nothing to do with academic freedom’ College’s defenders say its demise will dilute free expression, but education minister says its original critics opposed it for the same reason John Ross 9月 17日
Chinese universities ticked off for ideological education ‘gaps’ Inspectors tell Ministry of Education to ‘study deeply and systematically about Xi Jinping’s thoughts on education’ Jing Liu 9月 14日
India’s bet on liberal arts will fail without more investment Amid languishing quality, introducing what could be a more expensive curriculum to deliver may not boost employability, says Pushkar Pushkar 9月 12日
Administrative empire-building may have sealed Yale-NUS’ fate Headlines about whether the liberal arts can work in Asia only probe part of the story, says Scott Anthony Scott Anthony 9月 10日
We need authoritarian-proof higher education models Following the military coup, Burmese faculty and students fear annihilation of a budding modern higher education system, says Kyaw Moe Tun Kyaw Moe Tun 9月 6日
After Yale-NUS divorce, can liberal arts survive in Asia? Fait accompli shutdown ‘a metaphor for the decline of Western liberalism in Asia’, say experts after Singapore decision John Ross 9月 3日
Get at-risk research collaborators out of Afghanistan, UK told Ministers ‘negligent’ over failure to issue visas to scholars and activists who worked with British-based academics John Morgan 9月 3日