Science is a key part of a good liberal arts education
Science is an often overlooked but vital part of the liberal arts curriculum, says聽Steven Lynn Bernasek
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Transform France's educational offer abroad, says report
A lack of strategy and autonomy are to blame for French universities鈥 failure to keep pace on transnational education, study suggests
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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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TACTICS: the new smart set of rising HE powers
BRICS and MINTs, move over for the TACTICS 鈥 Thailand, Argentina, Chile, Turkey, Iran, Colombia and Serbia. Ellie聽Bothwell on a group that could grow into star players in global higher education
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Higher education access targets 鈥榮et to be missed鈥 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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Top Asia-Pacific institutions in material science
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1999-30 April 2009
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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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Wrangles over Hong Kong鈥檚 political future must not hold us back
Hong Kong鈥檚 position at the intersection of the Western world with China makes it a test bed for China鈥檚 鈥渙pening up鈥, with the University of Hong Kong at its centre, says the institution's president...
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China: what are the lessons of expansion?
New report indicates that more doesn鈥檛 always mean more equal
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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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World University Rankings 2016-2017: Why it鈥檚 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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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: how to succeed as a university in just 25 years
President Tony Chan puts rise to world stage down to money, research-active staff and the lure of Hong Kong
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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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New and noteworthy 鈥 11 August 2016
Hey presto! This week鈥檚 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