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Reports that students from China and other Asian countries are using fake English-language certificates to try to enroll in overseas universities. Issuance of forged English competency certificates through the British Council's International English Language Testing System (IELTS); Cost of fake certificates.

Reports on Tibet's education system. Proposed establishment of a middle school for each township by the year 2000; Statistics on illiteracy presented by Gyaincain Norbu, president of the Tibetan Autonomous Region; Semi-illiteracy of Tibetan teachers.

The article examines China's efforts to remove corruption and inefficiency to create a globally competitive system in its universities. China has become the world's largest provider of higher education and the second largest source of academic research papers. Philip Altbach, director of the Centre for International Higher Education, believes that China needs to ensure that the human and philosophical aspects of education is well developed aside from the physical aspects.

The article discusses the paper "From the former Soviet patterns towards the US model? Changes in Chinese doctoral education" related to growth and improvement of doctoral education in China. It mentions reforms made at the national and institutional levels to the higher education system of China. It also presents the views of Futao Huang, professor at the Research Institute for Higher Education at the Hiroshima University, on the same.

The article reports that Jeroen Huisman, professor of higher education at the Belgium's Ghent University, has told Times Higher Education that he was approached by official at university in China. He was told that he would be paid a total of 300,000 yuan (£35,703) if he was able to produced total of three journal papers, appearing in Thomson Reuters' Web of Science.

The article discusses Ka Ho Mok and Jin Jiang of Lingnan University's working paper "Massification of higher education challenges for admissions and graduate employment in China." The research published by the Centre for Global Higher Education and graduates in Europe, North America and East Asia negatively affected in terms of employment and social mobility by the expansion of higher education.

The article focuses on Laure Getty, head of the department of English at North Georgia State College and University. It highlights a paper written by Getty who discussed the politics and pros and cons of working in China. Getty shared the culture shock she experienced during her five months in the Asian country. She advises lecturers to continue taking up academic exchanges in China or elsewhere despite the differences and difficulties she encountered.

The article reports on the projection by "Nature China" editor Felix Cheung that China could become the second biggest source of highly cited papers in the near future.

This section offers news briefs about the Going Global higher education conference held in Hong Kong, China in March 2011. Kevin Downing of the City University of Hong Kong argued that it is only right to give students the means to compare the merits of universities via rankings. Speakers from Germany, Brazil and China assessed their nations's university reform strategies. A paper by hotcourses.com founder Mike Elms claimed that British, American and Australian universities were negligent in dealing with overseas students.

The article focuses on ranking of Great Britain in terms of researches. A report of data analyst Evidence depicts that Britain has the largest number of research papers with 0.87% world share between 2006 and 2007 following the U.S. However, it notes that China is heavily investing on research and was increasing its production which suggests that China may overtake the position of Britain. Meanwhile, Britain maintains the second place for citations with 12% world share.

The article offers information regarding Chinese cultural attitudes towards plagiarism. According to professor of English in Guandong University Ouyang Huhua, Chinese students who have studied in the West had a hard time to conceptualize the idea of intellectual property. It also discusses the impact of the privilege practice regarding supports and claims in creating a paper discussion among Chinese students.

Reports on the move of the government in developing ways to reduce distractions and to control cheating in China. Survey on the totality of students caught cheating especially during college entrance examinations; Regulations covering staff in charge of examinations and enrollment; Incidence of leaked test papers.

Looks at education reform in Hong Kong. Elimination of A-levels at universities; Consultation paper on reforms issued by university heads; University admission to be based on Hong Kong's Certificate of Education exam results; Comments from Edward Chen Kwanyiu, president of Lingnan College; Curriculum changes for students; Opposition to the elimination of A-levels.