Just as the ‘little red dot’ city state has made an indelible mark on the global stage, president of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Subra Suresh examines how his institution has garnered...
China’s Southern University of Science and Technology puts an overriding emphasis on knitting together talented people from all regions and levels, says its president, Shiyi Chen
Futao Huang considers the five nations trying to compete with China, Asia’s higher education superpower
China has put itself atop the rankings and set the model that others seek to emulate, says Phil Baty
Singapore has the continent’s best university for the third year in a row but China’s stars are in the ascendant, says Ellie Bothwell
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Ellie Bothwell compares two Beijing universities, Tsinghua and Peking, to explain the former’s rise
In the first of a regular series looking at who is producing highly cited research in different areas, THE explores a subject currently deemed the ‘most prominent’ by Elsevier metrics
Growing interest in the student mental health crisis is welcome, but it is overburdened hourly paid lecturers who are most at risk of stress in universities, says Sam Christie
Qatar is improving its university system faster than any other world economy, explains Cesar Wazen
Increased interest from EU and overseas fails to make up for shrinking 18-year-old population and reduced demand from mature students
Committee chair Robert Halfon calls for universities to offer more technical degrees or lose state funding
French president is credited with being behind boom in applications to study at Sciences Po
The broad trends in AI may be unstoppable, but we must find better ways of directing and regulating them, argues Toronto’s Mark Kingwell
Universities must do more to tackle the class privilege that is still rife in the ranks of academia, says Louise Morley