Call to protect academic freedom in overseas partnerships
New code of conduct says universities should adopt procedures for confidential reporting of threats to freedom and safety as a result of international collaboration
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US campus reopening plans ‘tied to politics, not public health’
In-person instruction during Covid linked to Republican states and whiter student bodies
Anonymise online courses ‘to protect students from foreign laws’
New guidance suggests UK universities could introduce Chatham House rule for seminars to protect recruits from countries with repressive governments
Change male academics to create gender parity, universities told
Institutions have long framed gender inequality as a problem with women, and have been ‘strangely silent’ about masculinity in academia, professor argues
China clamps down on gao kao identity theft
Legislative amendment sets out punishments for stealing or assisting stealing of someone else’s identity in university entrance exams
Top US science journals risk reputations to battle Trump
Pushed by Covid, academic authors see rare need to offer political voic
Would-be international students ‘prefer to study in-person at home’
THE survey finds that prospective mobile students are still reluctant to study online with an overseas university
Covid cuts into US universities’ tuition revenue
Pandemic and population losses leave private institutions especially vulnerable, Moody’s finds
China influence case tests academic freedom in New Zealand
The silencing of a China expert turns into broader debate about academic freedom and foreign ties
Universities see ‘vastly different’ prestige at home and abroad
Data from THE’s Reputation Rankings reveal the contrasts in the perception of institutions’ subject strengths inside and outside the country in which they are based
