'Springboard to Asia' cordially invites UK scholars
The government of Hong Kong is looking to British academics to help fill a teaching gap created by major changes to its education system.In an interview with ߣߣƵ, Kenneth Chen,...
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Latin America University Rankings 2016: results to be announced on 7 July
Latin America ranking will include 50 institutions and will be exclusively launched at the THE Latin America Universities Summit
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Higher education access targets ‘set to be missed’ in the developing world
Cambridge study finds women are least likely to benefit when university enrolment is expanded in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
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Wrangles over Hong Kong’s political future must not hold us back
Hong Kong’s position at the intersection of the Western world with China makes it a test bed for China’s “opening up”, with the University of Hong Kong at its centre, says the institution's president...
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Can India and China dominate HE in the 21st century?
John Morgan reports on the differences between the countries in terms of the provision of education, governance and the quality of research
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Languages crisis in the US highlighted in new report
American Academy of Arts and Sciences warns that problem exists from school right through to university
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China: what are the lessons of expansion?
New report indicates that more doesn’t always mean more equal
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World University Rankings 2016-2017: Why it’s hard to make global comparisons in higher education
An increasing drive to compare university offerings worldwide is hampered by the particular nature of teaching and learning, writes Paul Ashwin, professor of higher education, Lancaster University
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Interview with Stephen Buckman
We talk blue-sky thinking, academic mobility and not ‘sweating the small stuff’ with the new ߣߣƵn Research Council funding director
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The rise of European university networks
University leaders from across the Continent explain why collaboration is more important than ever as a new mission group forms in Amsterdam
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New and noteworthy – 11 August 2016
Hey presto! This week’s books to astonish and enlighten survey modern magic in Asia, physics with a feminist focus, the work of Elizabeth Bishop and the museum as creative spark
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THE Teaching Survey 2017: results and analysis
Academics enjoy teaching. What they don’t like is the lack of preparation time, bureaucratic burdens, unprepared students – and the TEF. Jack Grove reports
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Going Global: rankings as a force for good in the developing world
After the THE Africa Universities Summit, and as higher education leaders gather at Going Global in Cape Town, Phil Baty reflects on the role of rankings in nation-building
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Study shines light on success of Germany’s Excellence Initiative
‘Clusters of excellence’ have created highly cited publications, but the amount of money involved is still relatively small