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Helen Packer

@Helen_Packer

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helen.packer@timeshighereducation.com
UK Joined July 2009
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Helen Packer @Helen_Packer
I covered this story two years ago and now Chevening is once again closed to Afghans, pending a foreign office decision.

Alumni of the scheme - who say their lives were changed by it - are calling on gov to re-open it as Taliban rules intensify

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Times Higher Education Verified account @timeshighered Aug 30, 2024
Afghans feel ‘abandoned’ by UK after Chevening Scholarship closure, writes @Helen_Packer
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NEW: The University of Southampton has received approval from Indian authorities to begin establishing a branch campus, making it the first British institution to do so

@timeshighered @unisouthampton

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www.timeshighereducation.com Southampton gets go-ahead for first British campus in India University to offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across range of subjects from outpost in Delhi
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Helen Packer @Helen_Packer
Loved writing this story about what happens when (Asia's) big businesses set up universities

Including @SunwayU @postech2020 @UTPOfficial

@timeshighered

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www.timeshighereducation.com How Asia’s corporate-owned universities made their mark Multinational conglomerates have long been in the university business, but can they really compete when it comes to impact? 
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Is Modi’s electoral setback a win for Indian HE?

The BJP’s below-par showing in this month’s general election has left some academics daring to hope for quieter days ahead.

timeshighereducation.com/depth/narendra…

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www.timeshighereducation.com Is Narendra Modi’s electoral setback a win for Indian HE? A decade of rule by the Hindu-nationalist BJP has seen a combustible mixture of technocratic reform and political interference in higher education. But the party’s below-par showing in this month’s...