Laurentian battle suggests fight for Canada’s rural higher education
Ontario parliament demands documents over university’s unprecedented bankruptcy, though analysis may turn to realities of bankrolling remote communities
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Chinese students won’t stop going West
Despite the pandemic, trade disputes and geopolitical tensions, several factors will continue to push and pull Chinese students abroad, says Nicolas Chu
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Afghan Chevening alumni included in UK relocation scheme
Government move brings meaning to the motto ‘Scholars for a Year, Cheveners for Life’, says advocate
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Covid spotlights hunger struggles for Australia’s overseas students
Students collaborate to combat food shortages, as Covid widens the gap between Australia’s haves and have-nots
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The PhD is losing its currency for business leaders
Higher education in continental Europe needs to overcome its prejudices about DBAs if it is to meet demand from today’s senior managers, says Michel Kalika
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Recast Rutte coalition assigns ‘huge role for research and education’
But despite characteristic consensus on unsustainable workloads, key details of Dutch government investment agenda remain unknown
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Sisters and Sisterhood, by Lyndsey Jenkins
June Purvis enjoys a group biography that offers new insights into the role of British working-class women in the struggle for the vote
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Bangladeshi universities ‘not doing enough’ to stop student violence
Two years after student was beaten to death by classmates, calls for institutions to take more responsibility
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Higher power: stories behind the THE Awards 2021 winners
Universities show the way on transforming leadership culture, tackling period poverty, boosting African science and promoting leading research during the pandemic
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Finances complicate resumption of US Covid curbs
Outside a few elite institutions promising online formats for the coming semester, campus health experts fear monetary strains may overpower medical judgement
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Research on and with China purged as Australian grants announced
Six humanities projects reportedly vetoed and China collaboration nosedives as Discovery outcomes finally see light of day
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The climate emergency demands deeper international partnerships
Networks such as Universitas 21 facilitate mutual support to meet net zero targets, say Tan Eng Chye and Anton Muscatelli
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The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea, by Lorenzo Veracini
Neve Gordon has reservations about an ambitious analysis ranging across continents and centuries
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A thousand tiny gestures
After a second year of social distancing, how strong are the ties that bind us together and what is it that makes us a community, in society and HE?
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University of Hong Kong removes Tiananmen ‘Pillar of Shame’ statue
HKU community sceptical of official explanation blaming move on fragility of monument