Chinese new year
Japan loses its crown to its main regional rival, as massive state funding and innovation pay dividends for the People’s Republic, writes Katie Duncan
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Balance of power
There seems little doubt that Asia’s star is rising, but reports of its imminent academic hegemony are greatly exaggerated, argues Miguel Lim
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Industrial revolution
A nurturing relationship with Samsung has helped SKKU scale the domestic rankings and make its mark on the world stage, writes Chung Kyu Sang
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Sailing from Byzantium
To fulfil its potential, India’s academy must be freed from the constraints of red tape as part of a root-and-branch transformation, argues C. Raj Kumar
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Difference engine
Pan-Chyr Yang offers insights into National Taiwan University’s sterling work in pure research, knowledge transfer, innovation and 21st-century learning
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Asia University Rankings 2015 results announced
Japan still ‘king of the mountain’ but balance of power shifts to neighbour
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Pub crawl and ‘zombie walk’ win funding to promote humanities
The UK’s only national humanities research festival has announced funding awards to 41 universities and cultural organisations
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Nobel laureate Sir Tim Hunt apologises over ‘trouble with girls’ remarks
A Nobel Prize-winning fellow of the Royal Society has apologised after saying he was in favour of single sex laboratories.
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Difference engine
Source: Getty Pan-Chyr Yang offers insights into National Taiwan University’s sterling work in pure research, knowledge transfer, innovation and 21st-century learning. Founded in 1928, National...
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US public college presidents pocket 7% pay rise
But new report reveals that the president was not the highest-paid person on campus at more than half of institutions
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Postdoctoral researchers to be made Cambridge alumni
Former postdoctoral researchers will now be counted as alumni at the University of Cambridge
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Transnational students ‘more likely to progress to postgraduate courses’
A combination of short undergraduate courses and master’s programmes may be attractive to overseas students, Hefce says
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QAA reviews ‘could be abolished’
Institutional reviews by the Quality Assurance Agency could become a thing of the past in favour of more robust internal monitoring by universities themselves, a draft policy paper suggests.
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Aberdeen UCU members vote to strike over job losses
Union members at the University of Aberdeen have voted to strike in protest at the axing of 150 jobs.