Female empowerment in Africa: the critical role of education
Baroness Amos and Toyin Saraki on why Soas is using its centenary to highlight the importance of leveraging female education to improve development
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Will higher education in the 21st century belong to China?
The time is right for Europe's universities to make Chinese connections, say Ka Ho Mok and Jin Jiang
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US university plans dozens of overseas ‘microcampuses’
Arizona argues delivering dual degrees in branded space is more sustainable than opening a traditional branch campus
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European institutions 'must work together' in face of Asia's rise
At a time when the universities of the Ivy League are increasingly looking to Asia and even Latin America as research partners, European institutions need to collaborate far better if they want to...
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Juilliard School: reaching out across the city and the world
Outgoing president says the arts are more important than ever in these troubled times
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It’s your score in the long game that counts
As tactics to maximise rankings become common knowledge and fluctuation diminishes, universities will re-focus on a diversifying array of missions, says Merlin Crossley
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Young academics’ research ‘elegant but not interesting’
But professor says Trump presidency might now provide ‘incentive’ for junior scholars to ask ‘important questions’
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Global visa crackdowns may herald era of ‘contested’ mobility
Warnings that US and ߣߣÊÓƵn policies threaten academic and student movement
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Chinese universities ‘stand to gain’ if scholars spurn Trump’s US
Some academics and students may choose to move to China over the US, says leading scholar
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Internal promotion at Asian universities ‘works against women’
However, dean at Asian University for Women in Bangladesh says the number of female leaders on the continent is rising
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Do great minds think alike? The THE/Lindau Nobel Laureates Survey
We share what 50 Nobel prizewinners think about issues facing science, universities and the world, from populist politics and researcher mobility, to artificial intelligence and threats to humankind
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University leaders divided over fourth industrial revolution
Presidents agree on need to respond but are warned against being ‘slaves to industry’
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The steel city forging a university-industry-community alloy
John Morgan witnesses a pioneering collaboration between two Sheffield universities, drawing upon the city’s manufacturing heritage to become a hub of industrial innovation and a model of civic...
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Interview with Nirmala Rao
We talk women’s equality and emancipation, the necessity of HE investment in developing countries and eureka moments in the Himalayas with the new head of the Asian University for Women