Universities must protect IP to ensure Covid-19 vaccine reaches vulnerable
Making findings open source may enable certain companies and countries to corner the vaccine market, warn Virginia Driver and Tom Woodhouse
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THE Asia University Rankings 2020: table information
Key statistics The data shown under key statistics is that provided by the university itself in its submission to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. It represents data from the...
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Japan’s innovative education for innovation
The country’s universities face many challenges, but publicly funded graduate programmes aim to keep the research breakthroughs coming, writes Hiroshi Amano
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‘Reshape Australian research on quality, not contracts,’ forum told
Andrew Norton tells THE webinar that researchers on priority projects could be cut in coronavirus lay-offs while those doing less vital work are spared
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THE Live Asia to explore impact of coronavirus on region
University and industry leaders will discuss how university operations have been transformed by the pandemic, while event will also reveal the Asia University Rankings 2020
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Covid-19 ‘threatens viability of half of Australian sector’
Some universities lack the reserves to shoulder this year’s losses, let alone a half-decade slump
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The pandemic has shown us the imperative for global engagement in higher education
Global pandemics require global responses – that’s why producing globally competent graduates should be central to universities’ missions, say Harvey Charles and Darla Deardorff
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Concern over ‘basic’ indicators used to judge universities
Despite greater focus on students’ learning outcomes, in Europe institutions are still largely assessed on the basis of ‘input’ measures, such as staff-to-student ratios, rather than trickier ‘output...
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US higher education system is ‘capstone of inequality’
Selective institutions’ claims that they try to help low-income students are ‘hype’, says author of new book on higher education inequalities
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Overseas Chinese with ‘diaspora advantage’ achieve major success
US-China research collaborations will continue despite politics, Harvard economist says
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Karen Laughlin, 1949-2020
Tributes paid to a ‘steely’ dean of undergraduates who helped forge a new generation of leaders
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Trump said to be mulling broad Chinese student expulsion
US universities warn against punishment that goes beyond individual visas
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Universities plan their first steps out of crisis mode
Universities are starting to reveal how they intend to move forward in a world still reeling from the pandemic. Much rides on getting the response right
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Trump school of government: teaching policy in an era of political dysfunction
Schools of government have traditionally employed a technocratic approach to preparing public officials. But with polarisation straining political systems to breaking point, Paul Basken reports on...
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THE Asia University Rankings 2020: methodology
To reflect the region’s unique characteristics, we make adjustments to the rigorous and robust criteria that underpin THE’s World University Rankings to arrive at this year’s Asia University Rankings