It has been a difficult summer for Chinese students in America. On May 28, the State Department announced a campaign to “aggressively” start revoking their visas. One of the targets will be Chinese students in “critical fields”, science and engineering programmes that are deemed to be of strategic interest […]
The amount of time that students in the UK are spending studying has markedly declined as more than two-thirds take up employment in response to financial worries. The Student Academic Experience Survey 2025 says that term-time employment has become “the new normal” and “even the new expectation” following the upheaval of the Covid-19 pandemic and […]
Vocational education and training (VET), the perennial bridesmaid of Australian tertiary education, is stealing a march over a university sector that has long held most of the cards. There are signs that public vocational colleges are gaining political ascendency over a university sector seen as poorly governed and ill-suited […]
A coveted place at Seoul National University (SNU), Korea University (KU) or Yonsei University (YU) — the country’s top three universities, known collectively as SKY — is the passport to the best jobs and social elite status.
Jinsang Kim, president of Kyung Hee University, is keen to see his institution, which is currently ranked #9 in […]
Hong Kong is experiencing a boom in private and self-funded higher education as global tensions and buoyant demand fuel the territory’s ascension as an international education hub.
The number of private universities in Hong Kong has quadrupled in seven years. Hang Seng University’s 2018 conversion from a […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio: selection process intervention
Eleven members of the 12-person Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB) have resigned over what they say is political interference in the selection process for recipients of this prestigious international grant, according to sources familiar with the program and a letter announcing their resignation.
Australian universities are saddled with de facto international enrolment caps, after Canberra signalled its intention to maintain a visa processing regime that imposes nebulous limits on overseas student recruitment. University of Technology Sydney (UTS) vice chancellor Andrew Parfitt says the new regime, known as ministerial direction 111 (MD111), […]
Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) is set to establish a campus in Mumbai, making it the first US higher ed institution to receive approval to operate in India. The Chicago-based institute announced plans to inaugurate its new campus in autumn 2026 to offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science, engineering and business. […]
Over-representation of images of white people on Japanese university websites suggests these institutions favour European and North American students — a trend that could damage the country’s attempts to attract more foreign students.
In a new study published in Innovative Higher Education, academics used AI to identify the ethnicity of people in 670,000 images scraped from […]
The strength of Chinese universities continues to grow, with 25 of the country’s institutions achieving their best ever position in this year’s Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings. Their stellar performance is undeniable: Tsinghua University retained its place as Asia’s best university, followed by Peking University. In total, mainland Chinese institutions accounted for five of […]
UK universities might have to stop recruiting students from “riskier” countries under new proposed visa compliance thresholds — with 20 percent of enrolments potentially under threat — although some have welcomed the changes as a way of weeding out “bad actors”. Currently, to sponsor visas for international students, higher ed institutions must achieve a visa […]
A programme at Harvard Divinity School aspired to “deZionize Jewish consciousness”. During “privilege trainings”, working-class Harvard students were instructed that, by being Jewish, they were oppressing wealthier, better prepared classmates. A course in Harvard’s graduate school of public health, ‘The Settler Colonial Determinants of Health’, sought to “interrogate relationships […]
An ancient Chinese saying states that Meng mu san qian, the mother of Mencius, a sage, “moved three times” to find him the right study environment. Tiger mums worldover know the feeling, but few push harder than the Chinese. The game of cat and mouse the Communist Party plays […]
For many decades, Germany has been famous for its political stability, having had just nine chancellors in the post-war era. But the country’s memories of its Nazi past have not rendered it immune to the global rise of right-wing populism, with politicians exploiting economic malaise and terrorist incidents […]
More South Korean students are opting for medical studies over science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) courses, threatening the country’s position as a science superpower. The number of applicants to Korea’s science and technology institutes — which include the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, one of […]
With restrictive immigration policies increasingly being adopted in rival destinations, researchers of the British Council believe that the UK may well reap rewards after Republican Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
Overseas enrolment declined during Trump’s first term, as he tightened visa issuance, attempted to remove international students on online courses from the US during […]
Donald Trump’s widely anticipated order to close the Department of Education is part of his “shock and awe” doctrine in his second term in the White House, say education experts in the US.
Prior to his inauguration, observers had struggled to predict what President Trump’s plans for higher education would […]
The first British university campus in India, set to open next year (2025) will offer a “comprehensive” programme of courses in a bid to admit thousands of students over the next decade. The University of Southampton received approval last August to establish a branch in the world’s most populous country, with a new campus planned […]
Spain could soon have more private universities than public ones if current trends continue. However experts are raising concerns about quality, equity and an adverse impact on public institutions.
Currently, there are 91 active universities in Spain, of which 50 are public and 41 are private. Five more private institutions […]
Foreign students in Malaysia: high-income nations preference
Malaysia is maintaining a toe-in-the-water approach to post-study work rights, despite indications that it could help achieve a longstanding goal of 250,000 international student enrolments by 2025.
The South-east Asian nation’s flirtation with post-study work rights has so far been restricted to citizens of high-income nations with […]
An Australian university hopes to inaugurate a new campus on the outskirts of New Delhi as part of a partnership with the state government, subject to approval from regulators. Western Sydney University (WSU) announced its intention to establish a branch campus in Greater Noida, a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, around an […]
Private school children: diminishing inflow forecast
In mid-December Tim Jonas’ daughter said goodbye to friends and teachers at her private school in Wakefield, in Yorkshire. Jonas, a web developer, says his family can no longer afford the nine-year-old’s fees, now that Britain’s Labour government is adding 20 percent in value-added tax (VAT).
Yonsei University, Seoul: country’s most expensive
Tuition fee increases at South Korea’s universities are “unavoidable”, according to academics, despite last-ditch negotiation attempts by a government already grappling with a constitutional crisis.
Deputy prime minister and education minister Lee Ju-ho reportedly sent a letter to all universities end December urging them to freeze tuition fees […]
As director of a first-year writing course at a midsize public university, Melanie Gagich doesn’t know a lot about computer science. But when her institution invited faculty to propose new programmes combining two existing majors, she and another writing instructor felt that English and computer science would be a perfect fit. “A lot of students […]
America’s higher education institutions are at risk of being caught in the crossfire as divisions are revealed in the Trump administration over visas. Opposition to the H-1B work visa has come from influential right-wing commentator Steve Bannon and left-wing Democratic senator Bernie Sanders, who have criticised […]
When Times Higher Education launched the Arab University Rankings three years ago, universities in the prosperous Gulf states were the leading lights. But this year, institutions outside that region are showing strong signs of progress, proving that they can shine just as brightly as their Saudi and Emirati counterparts, despite facing tough economic, social […]
US universities may be more cautious about establishing branch campuses in India than their British and Australian counterparts. A delegation from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) met with Indian education minister Dharmendra Pradhan in November to talk about academic and research collaboration opportunities, including setting up a campus.
In a statement, the Indian ministry of education said […]
English learning class in China: waning enthusiasm
In preparation for the summer Olympics of 2008, the authorities in Beijing, the host city and China’s capital, launched a campaign to teach English to residents likely to come in contact with foreign visitors. Police, transit workers and hotel staff were among those targeted. One aim […]
US universities are bracing themselves for four years of “playing defence” on international students against the anti-immigration policies expected in president-elect Donald Trump’s second term.
His first four years in power offer some clues as to what might be in store: he tightened visa issuance, attempted to block […]
American varsity students: “target on their backs”
There are high stakes for universities in the upcoming US presidential election, even if neither candidate has set out an extensive higher education policy agenda — and students’ votes could play a key role in the result.
In the run-up to the November 5 poll, Kamala Harris […]
Oxford University has retained the number one spot in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for a ninth year in a row. But the reputation of the wider UK sector is rapidly eroding, with a similar trend seen in the US.
Oxford’s reign is now the longest in the history of the league table, beating […]
American varsity students: “target on their backs”
There are high stakes for universities in the upcoming US presidential election, even if neither candidate has set out an extensive higher education policy agenda — and students’ votes could play a key role in the result.
In the run-up to the November 5 poll, Kamala Harris […]
Oxford University has retained the number one spot in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for a ninth year in a row. But the reputation of the wider UK sector is rapidly eroding, with a similar trend seen in the US.
Oxford’s reign is now the longest in the history of the league table, beating […]
(Dr. Larry Arnn is President, Hillsdale College, USA. [email protected])
I write this a few days before an important election in America. It has implications for education and for every area of American policy. Should government continue to become more centralised, more controlled by complex bureaucratic rules in the hundreds of thousands?
Visa delays and refusals are playing havoc with Australian universities’ course and financial planning, weeks ahead of the new semester starting July/August.
Median visa processing time frames for higher education students have more than tripled in the past few months, according to the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). Fifty percent of applicants […]
Canada seems to be losing the attention of international students so quickly that its institutions might not recruit enough students this year to hit the sharply lower visa caps imposed recently by the Trudeau administration.
After watching overseas student enrolments surge to more than 400,000, the federal government this year announced the imposition of study visa […]
As Jakarta (pop.10.6 million) rapidly sinks into the ocean — 40 percent of the greater metropolitan area of the country’s admin capital (pop.30 million) is now below sea level — Indonesia’s behind-schedule, controversy-ridden new capital city on the jungle-clad island of Borneo could spell a new era for […]
The route to Sunway University is far from your typical campus approach. To reach this Malaysian institution, you must first navigate to Sunway City on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, past various Sunway hotels and Sunway shopping malls, away from the Sunway medical centre, until you reach the […]
Ideally, Marianne Korkalainen’s high school in Rautavaara, a tiny town in eastern Finland, would enrol at least 20 new pupils each year. This autumn, her shrinking municipality will send her only about 12. But Ms Korkalainen, the head teacher, has a plan: she intends to invite half a dozen youngsters from poorer countries to help […]
With cannons on campus, its own Qing-dynasty wall and the first Dutch fort in Taiwan nearby, National Cheng Kung University seems an appealing place for a budding historian. However, after a first round of applications, no students had accepted places in the history department for next year. It is a shock for the university, […]
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