Nottingham rebuked for ‘misleading’ students over China campus Official censure comes amid claims that pioneering institution is only ‘a Chinese college that bears Nottingham’s name’ By Jack Grove 29 September
Fake peer review retractions fuel concerns over Chinese practices Prestigious Sage robotics title pulls papers over concerns its peer review was ‘subverted’ by China-based academics By Jack Grove 28 September
Yale-NUS guarantees impossible to fulfil, academics claim University ‘keen to engage’ staff and students on ‘merger’, while sidestepping inconsistencies in proposal By John Ross 27 September
China takes on big publishers with ‘world-class’ journal drive Country concerned about likes of Elsevier ‘seizing’ distribution of scientific output By Jing Liu 26 September
After Yale-NUS closure, liberal arts in Asia will benefit from peer support A new consortium will embody the spread of liberal arts beyond the West, say Bryan Penprase and Thomas Schneider By Bryan Penprase 23 September
‘Kowtowing v-cs’ denounced by former Malaysian education minister University leaders would not exercise freedom even if the state did not have them under its thumb, says Maszlee Malik By John Ross 20 September
Chinese province tries speed dating to retain graduates Anhui launches ‘marriage assistance project’ in response to concerns that too many graduates are going elsewhere By Jing Liu 19 September
Yale-NUS closure ‘nothing to do with academic freedom’ College’s defenders say its demise will dilute free expression, but education minister says its original critics opposed it for the same reason By John Ross 17 September
China moves to halt universities’ eastern branch campus rush Ministry of Education says it does not ‘support or encourage’ institutions setting up outposts beyond their home province By Jing Liu 15 September
Chinese universities ticked off for ideological education ‘gaps’ Inspectors tell Ministry of Education to ‘study deeply and systematically about Xi Jinping’s thoughts on education’ By Jing Liu 14 September
India’s bet on liberal arts will fail without more investment Amid languishing quality, introducing what could be a more expensive curriculum to deliver may not boost employability, says Pushkar By Pushkar 12 September
Administrative empire-building may have sealed Yale-NUS’ fate Headlines about whether the liberal arts can work in Asia only probe part of the story, says Scott Anthony By Scott Anthony 10 September