Universities around the world seek to provide a haven for students affected by US President Donald Trump’s campaign against academic institutions, as they aim to attract major talents and a share of billions of dollars in academic revenues obtained by the United States.
The University of Osaka, one of the highest -class universities in Japan, provides exemptions from study fees, research grants and help in traveling arrangements for students and researchers in American institutions who want to move to.
The Japanese universities of Kyoto and Tokyo are also studying similar programs, while Hong Kong directed its universities to attract the best competencies from the United States.
The Chinese University of Xi Kiaotong invited the American Harvard University students affected by the Trump campaign, and promised them to accept “smooth” and “comprehensive” support.
The Trump administration has reduced the financing of academic research significantly, and imposed restrictions on foreign students ’visas -especially those coming from China -and plans to increase taxes on educational institutions designated for the elite.
Trump says prestigious American universities are a cradle of anti -America movements. In a dangerous escalation, his administration was canceled last week, Harvard University, to register foreign students, a step that a federal judge later stopped.
Japan aims to increase the number of foreign students over the next ten years to 400 thousand from about 337 thousand students currently.
Trump’s campaign targeted Chinese students in particular, as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio pledged on Wednesday to take strict measures on their visas.
The campaign comes at a critical time for foreign students submitting applications to join universities, as many young people are preparing to travel to Washington next August to search for housing and stability before the start of the semester.