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Dec 10, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Suvendrini Kakuchi
JAPAN-EUROPE
Japan has started formal negotiations to enter the European Union’s Horizon research programme, which is reaching out to countries outside the EU that share its democratic values, but academic opposition in Japan to military-linked research may limit its participation in some dual-use research. Formal negotiations with Japan to become an associate member were launched on 3 December.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Suvendrini Kakuchi
GLOBAL
The use of generative AI tools, including ChatGPT, that can work as a personal assistant providing information and writing essays is already widely embraced among university students and is transforming learning.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Suvendrini Kakuchi
GLOBAL
The role of universities in fostering peace and hope, and their capacity to serve as safe havens for millions of young people displaced by ongoing conflicts around the world, came under the spotlight during discussions by international higher education leaders at the recent International Association of Universities (IAU) conference held in Tokyo from November 22 to 24. The deliberations noted the impact of divisive politics on societies and the natural environment.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Suvendrini Kakuchi
GLOBAL
International experts and university leaders acknowledged the urgency of revising current university education practices to meet ongoing changes in society and to boost the role of higher education in shaping national, regional and global agendas at a recent global conference held in Japan.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Suvendrini Kakuchi
JAPAN
As Japanese private universities grapple with the threat of closure due to a decline in the student-age population, the country’s women’s universities are looking to transform in order to survive. Some have turned co-educational, while others are offering more science and technology programmes.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Suvendrini Kakuchi
JAPAN
Professor Atsufumi Yokoi, vice-president for global engagement at Okayama University in Japan and a UNESCO chair holder, isn’t going to stop talking about the criticality of incorporating education for sustainable development (ESD) into higher education.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Suvendrini Kakuchi
JAPAN-MALAYSIA
Japanese university degrees will be taught abroad for the first time with the inauguration this week of the new Malaysia campus of Japan’s University of Tsukuba within the University of Malaya (UM) site in Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysia campus, known as the School of Transdisciplinary Science and Design at the University of Tsukuba Malaysia, opened on 2 September, offering four-year undergraduate degrees.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Suvendrini Kakuchi
JAPAN
An ongoing backlash by international students against a decision announced by Musashino Art University, Tokyo to hike tuition rates for foreign students entering in 2025 has set off alarm bells in Japan’s higher education sector. The new fees, announced in July, mean that international students will pay approximately 20% more than domestic students, whose fees remain unchanged.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Suvendrini Kakuchi
JAPAN
Japanese universities are adopting a more proactive approach to attracting foreign students, including the expansion of disciplines taught in English. The measures are both a financial survival strategy for higher education institutes and a response to government policy aimed at growing global talent.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Suvendrini Kakuchi
JAPAN
Universities in Japan are seeking ways to strengthen their bid for funding from Japan’s coveted JPY10 trillion (US$62.6 billion) national endowment fund in this year’s round after only one university – Tohoku University – was successful in the first round of funding last year.
