China 'offering global elite scholarships to boost soft power'
China, fostering links with future leaders through its universities, is now playing the same game as Western nations, researcher says
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Books interview: Deirdre N. McCloskey
The economist and polymath on A. N. Wilson and Isaiah Berlin, mushy peas and sisterly libertarianism, and all those books as yet unread and unwritten
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Developing a culture of ‘mega-giving’ in Australian higher education
University fundraising in Australia needs to catch up with the UK, says Nick Blinco
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We Shall Not Be Moved: How Liverpool’s Working Class Fought Redundancies, Closures and Cuts in the Age of Thatcher, by Brian Marren
Scousers’ acts of resilience are celebrated in a study of the city’s struggles, says Lisa Mckenzie
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Yale-NUS College extends reach of liberal arts’ ‘forbidden fruits’
Jack Grove reports from official inauguration of campus that reflects Singapore’s growing demand for Western-style higher education
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The 100 most innovative universities in Europe 2016
Germany and the UK well represented on Reuters’ inaugural Europe innovation ranking
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Former Soas director Paul Webley dies
Professor Webley was ‘inspired leader’ and will be ‘sorely missed’, say colleagues of the acclaimed academic
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Study Asia from below
WANG Gungwu (THES, June 5) makes an interesting analysis of the reasons why in the field of Asian studies the North-South link has flourished much more than the South-South link. However, Professor...
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World Reputation Rankings 2016: University of Illinois – a global destination
A focus on international students has always been one of the university's strengths
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Interview with Vernon Hill
We talk to the US banking mogul about entrepreneurialism, carving a niche in British banking and contrarianism
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World insight: a homegrown academic workforce for the Gulf
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam considers the implications of ‘Emiratisation’ policies for higher education in the Middle East
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Postgraduate stem courses: top five sending countries to the UK
Saudi Arabia is the top country of origin for international postgraduate students on medicine and dentistry courses in the UK
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The American studies melting pot
Christopher Phelps surveys a field that lends itself to interdisciplinarity, while a British scholar laments that UK institutions prefer Americans for Americanists
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World University Rankings 2015-2016: results announced
US continues to lose its grip as institutions in Europe up their game
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150 Under 50 Rankings 2016: Focus on mission, not measurements
Rankings efforts must not detract from university mission, says Hong Kong University of Science and Technology president Tony Chan