Singapore campus ¡®delusional¡¯ for cash-strapped university
Critics say joint venture is doomed to fail in an ¡®ultra-competitive market¡¯, but Massey insists it has done its homework
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Asia in a state of Confucian
Asian Values and Human Rights
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Warwick holds its own in Southeast Asia
Warwick University has bucked the trend for recruitment in Southeast Asia despite the financial crisis in the region. It has increased its number of Southeast Asian students by more than 9 per cent,...
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Asia's deadly enigma
Question: which country suffers famine, launches missiles over its neighbours and prints counterfeit dollar bills? Answer: the secret Stalinist state of North Korea. Aidan Foster-Carter reports...
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APHEN brings Asia together
A Unesco project is linking academics in 12 Asian countries via the Internet, writes Geoff Maslen in Melbourne Universities in Commonwealth and certain Asian countries are promoting multilateral...
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Academic blind spot in Asia
We are accustomed to the history of Orientalism in the West and its politically correct extension, the field of Asian studies. We are less aware, however, of Asian efforts to study one another's...
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Women's lib in Asia
AN INDIAN academic who held The THES Exchange Fellowship in 1997 has carried out a comparison of the legal status of women in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Uma Devi, reader in law at Sri...
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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?
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Gag on Asia haze scaremongers
Academics in Malaysia are only barred from publicising their findings on the health effects of the haze and not on other sensitive issues, said education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. His...
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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
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Asia to turn Japanese
Universities in Asia are paying a great deal of attention to the people who have made the region's economic revolution possible. These are the wealth-minded national leaders and the businessmen whom...
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Mexican universities turning to Asia in Trump era
Cross-border tensions accelerate trans-Pacific pivot
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False dichotomy for Asia
Perhaps the emergence of democracy in East Asia is not so different from the western experience during the 18th and early 19th centuries. In both cases, "social changes induced by rapid economic...
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False dichotomy for Asia
It is rather disappointing that Michael Leifer (THES April 21) has chosen to rely uncritically on popularised conceptual categories in his analysis of the East Asian situation without reflexively...
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THE Awards MENA 2023: shortlist announced
Nearly 300 entries whittled down to 75 finalists ahead of inaugural ceremony