Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis University Town is no longer just a planning concept. After site visits by a university town task force, the government has reportedly absorbed lessons from overseas models, expanded the university town area to more than 1,000 hectares, received 19 proposals from local institutions and moved towards phased site tendering and development….
This week, Hong Kong is honoured to play host to the Asia-Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) Conference and Exhibition, one of the most significant gatherings in the global higher education arena. For us, this is not merely a conference; it is a homecoming for international collaboration and a resounding statement of intent. As delegates…
“It’s a hard time to be a university president,” said Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber. “But even in the best of times, you’re dealing with such a wide set of constituencies, right? Trustees, alumni, students … sometimes the president of the United States.” Eisgruber found his university under pressure from President Trump this past spring….
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Aside from the steep monetary value, these shakedowns have also made media companies more adverse to reporting criticism of the president and his administration’s actions. Next came universities: Long the foundation of America’s scientific and technological supremacy, Trump cut off federal research funding for major universities in order to force them to…
New Delhi: Lancaster University and the University of Surrey, two of the UK’s leading universities, received Letters of Intent (LoIs) from Indian authorities on Thursday to open campuses in Bangalore and GIFT City, Gujarat, respectively in Mumbai during the visit of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to India. With this, the total number of UK…