Opinion

Expert commentary and perspectives on the key issues shaping global higher education.

China’s answer to JCR is changing—but the system behind it isn’t

· By Eleanor Shaw

China’s domestic journal ranking system—long seen as a counterpart to the Journal Citation Reports—has been withdrawn by its official publisher. But as a new platform emerges from the same team, deeper questions are being asked about credibility, control, and the future of research evaluation.

Internationalisation may offer a way through the crisis in global higher education

· By H. Yang

As COVID-19 halted student mobility, universities turned to internationalisation not as a strategy of expansion, but as a mechanism for survival—revealing both its untapped potential and its structural limits.