Arab Universities Summit: industry blanks ‘sausage machine’ research Closer relationships with companies needed to produce more relevant scholarship, summit hears By Juliette Rowsell 4 December
Arab Universities Summit: call to focus on tackling graduate unemployment Universities risk becoming ‘obsolete’ if they are not able to tailor education to their local communities, summit hears By Juliette Rowsell 4 December
Japan’s American university grows as students stay close to home Temple University Japan reports record enrolments and plans Kyoto campus By Helen Packer 4 December
Call for sector ombudsman to ease India’s PhD suicide crisis Offering independent adjudication of complaints against PhD supervisors may offer timely assistance to at-risk students, says India’s suicide prevention tsar By Jack Grove 4 December
Ed Byrne: in Saudi Arabia, the possibilities are even greater The new KAUST president reflects on his journey to the rising institution and Saudi Arabia’s rapidly transforming higher education sector By Ed Byrne 4 December
Arab University Rankings 2024: results announced Gulf region loses its grip at the top of the table, as Jordan and Egypt make gains By Rosa Ellis 4 December
Korean academics lead calls for controversial president to resign Spiralling movement has seen thousands of university professors demand Yoon Suk Yeol’s resignation By Helen Packer 3 December
Virtual exchange offers a glimmer of hope for Lebanon in conflict Connecting with learners in other countries allows students to feel seen and heard on the global stage, says Nael Alami By Nael Alami 3 December
Ghassan Aouad: ‘a degree is only 30 per cent of getting a job’ The chancellor of Abu Dhabi University on different types of intelligence, freedom of speech and universities in the East versus West By Rosa Ellis 2 December
Now the Taliban is banning lecturers from pursuing higher study abroad Scholars who win foreign scholarships will have no jobs to return to in Afghanistan if they decide to take them up, says an Afghan academic 2 December
91茄子 Campus Live SE Asia: Private universities ‘know where the money comes from’ Driven more by pragmatism than purism, Asia’s new wave of industry-linked universities is shaking up the sector By John Ross 27 November
91茄子 Campus Live SE Asia: Malaysia an ‘attractive’ education hub Region’s educational strengths must be brought to bear against key challenges such as climate change, forum hears By John Ross 27 November