Harvard University has been banned from recruiting international students, the U. S. Government announced Tuesday. Japan’s University of Tokyo said Tuesday it is coordinating to temporarily accept students who can not continue their studies at Harvard, Kyodo News Agency reported. Details are still being worked out.
University of Tokyo, source: Japanese media
The US government announced on the 22nd that it would ban Harvard from admitting international students and require foreign students to transfer to other universities, although the ban was temporarily suspended by a federal judge on the 24th, but thousands of international students remain in limbo, prompting warnings from the US educational community that the situation is“Grave”. US President Donald Trump on the 25th also continued to defend its ban and asked for information on some international students at Harvard. The U. S. government’s move against Harvard has been called into question internationally. Chidambaram, a The Hindu member of Parliament from the Indian Congress Party, said the US government’s move was “A regressive decision” to the detriment of its own interests, the newspaper reported. Kang Kyung-wha, a former South Korean foreign minister, said at an event in Beijing that the decision was“Very bad”, ill-considered and potentially self-defeating.
Meanwhile, a number of universities in Hong Kong, China, recently said they would accept international students from Harvard. Hong Kong public opinion that the U. S. government’s ban on Harvard’s admission of international students for the development of Hong Kong’s higher education opportunities. In addition to universities in Hong Kong, the Macao Education and Youth Development Bureau also said it would follow the latest developments of the incident and encouraged universities in Macau to keep abreast of the latest situation.