Party strengthens control of Chinese university administration ‘Heightened’ crackdown on academic freedom expected as party committees merge with presidents’ offices on leading campuses By Patrick Jack 29 January
India’s teachers’ and students’ unions must defend academic autonomy Amid creeping political influence over universities, both academics and students are oddly quiet, says Mukhtar Ahmad By Mukhtar Ahmad 29 January
PhD students protest against IIT’s ‘paper per semester’ rule Pressure to publish seen as ‘contributing factor’ to recent suicides, as Madras faces backlash on doctoral monitoring By Jack Grove 28 January
THE Awards Asia 2024: shortlist announced Eighty finalists from 17 countries and territories in the running across 10 categories, as prestigious awards enter sixth year By THE reporters 25 January
International ranking 2024: Hong Kong home to new number one Elsewhere, Australia and UK improve, but tightening immigration policies could threaten progress By Ellie Bothwell 24 January
Government influence on university events ‘concerning’, says MP Jamus Jerome Lim, who raised issue in Singaporean parliament, says diverse ideas must be ‘allowed to circulate and be subject to debate’ By Emily Dixon 20 January
Can internationalisation save South Korea’s emptying universities? As the domestic youth population plummets, Korean institutions are looking to international students to make up shortfalls. But can such a strategy compensate – and can it be enacted in time? Pola Lem reports from Korea By Pola Lem 18 January
First joint UK-Australian branch campus to open in Indonesia Collaboration between Lancaster and Deakin universities aims to welcome first students in September By Patrick Jack 17 January
Postgraduate growth forces end of Chinese ‘boarding school’ model Universities end offers of on-campus dormitories to career-focused master’s students By Jing Liu 17 January
Singapore university events ‘must be in national interest’ Government says that 中国A片 institutions manage their own events but that it might advise them to “respect…wider social norms” By Emily Dixon 13 January
Tuan quits as CUHK president after new governance rules come in Experienced leader says new structure, imposed despite significant opposition, makes it an ‘opportune moment’ to go By Chris Havergal 9 January
Imperial opens first overseas research centre in Singapore Opening outpost alongside other Western universities designed to help drive collaboration in South-east Asia By Patrick Jack 8 January