Asia

As the domestic youth population plummets, Korean institutions are looking to international students to make up shortfalls. But can such a strategy compensate – and can it be enacted in time? Pola Lem reports from Korea

Collaboration between Lancaster and Deakin universities aims to welcome first students in September

Universities end offers of on-campus dormitories to career-focused master’s students

Government says that higher education institutions manage their own events but that it might advise them to “respect…wider social norms”

Experienced leader says new structure, imposed despite significant opposition, makes it an ‘opportune moment’ to go

Opening outpost alongside other Western universities designed to help drive collaboration in South-east Asia

Chungbuk National University head says simply ‘selling degrees’ is not in the interest of students or the sector

Partial elimination of tuition fees could prove self-defeating by undermining the private universities that educate more than half of the country’s students

Canberra’s attempt to reduce backlog of ‘permanently temporary’ graduates hamstrung by trade agreement

While Americans return to institutions worldwide, Biden administration talks of post-Covid academic reset with political rival but largely prevents it

Seven in 10 Chinese students more likely to stay in the UK because of the graduate visa route, Ucas report adds

Government schemes to bolster higher education come amid ongoing population decline and recent drop in doctoral students