A recent donation of US$115 million by billionaires Chen Tianqiao and Chrissy Luo Qianqian, the founders of internet game giant Shanda, to the California Institute of Technology for brain research has drawn criticism in China, writes Alice Yan for South China Morning Post. More...

A recent donation of US$115 million by billionaires Chen Tianqiao and Chrissy Luo Qianqian, the founders of internet game giant Shanda, to the California Institute of Technology for brain research has drawn criticism in China, writes Alice Yan for South China Morning Post. More...

Women's education levels have increased in the Czech Republic, as more than one-third of women aged 25 to 34, but only a quarter of men in the same age group, are university graduates, reports CTK. More...

More than nine in 10 universities in the United Kingdom are restrictive of free speech, according to a new report that raises concerns over the issue of censorship on campuses, writes Rachael Pells for the Independent. More...

British Prime Minister Theresa May has been urged by 250 legal academics to cancel Donald Trump’s state visit and scale back Britain’s support for the United States until he reverses his positions on immigration, refugees, torture, climate change and judicial independence, write Rowena Mason and Jessica Elgot for the Guardian. More...

More than €5.3 billion (US$5.6 billion) in public spending has been earmarked for the Paris-Saclay science cluster, the Court of Auditors estimates in an annual report published on 8 February – but the original vision of creating a large integrated research university there is “at a standstill”. More...

By Brennan Weiss. One of the Philippines’ most prestigious universities is working to combat the spread of misinformation online as academics use their subject knowledge and authoritative expertise to fight against fake news on the internet. More...

By Lucy Haire. When the creators of Liftupp presented a research paper on their new system for developing and assessing dental students to a meeting of United Kingdom-wide heads of schools in 2011, they received a standing ovation and immediate requests from two universities to buy it. More...

By Casey O’Brien. What is the role of universities in Donald Trump’s America? Ever since Trump took office on 20 January 2017, shock after shock has hit the nation. In his first 12 days in office, Trump signed 18 executive orders and memos, an average of 1.5 per day, including his infamous immigration ban. Civil rights are under siege. More...

By Ming Cheng. Universities worldwide are increasingly under pressure to demonstrate their educational quality through performance-oriented evaluation procedures. More...