Sars curbs Antipodean recruitment drive in Asia
A drop in recruitment of overseas students to universities in New Zealand and Australia due to the Sars epidemic could have a devastating knock-on effect for the institutions' incomes. The...
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A plague of tapeworm sentences
Brian Bloch ponders the convoluted tangle that permeates scholarly German writing
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Campus close-up: Heriot-Watt University
Scotland’s ‘international university’ is investing in growth at overseas and domestic sites
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Tables arrangements may be a distraction
Focus on league tables could shift Middle Eastern universities from honourable priorities, argues Cesar Wazen
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The 100 most international universities in the world 2015
World University Rankings data reveal the most outward-looking institutions
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America Inc? Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State, by Linda Weiss
Jörg Michael Dostal on how the NSS has enabled the US to attain technological leadership to serve its geopolitical objectives
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Gag on Asia haze scaremongers
Academics in Malaysia are only barred from publicising their findings on the health effects of the haze and not on other sensitive issues, said education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. His...
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Students studying for UK qualification abroad up 5 per cent
But more than 40 per cent are registered with Oxford Brookes, says Hesa
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News in brief - 10 July 2014
Vice-chancellors’ payGoldsmiths gives students a sayA London university has become the first in the UK to allow a student to join the panel that decides its vice-chancellor’s pay. A student will now...
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THE World University Rankings 2013-2014 results discussion
The ÌÇÐÄVlog World University Rankings 2013-2014, published on 3 October 2013, saw the continued rise of top universities in East Asia - particularly in Singapore, Japan, South Korea...
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Eastern promise
I’m sitting in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (previously Saigon), a progressive and cosmopolitan metropolis that has an abundance of scooters and a vibrant cafe culture. With a distinctive Parisian feel...
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Quotas call for female vice-chancellors
Study proposes code of practice for recruitment firms to help address inequality
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Online window on India’s recent past
Five million pages available, from official reports to cinematic ephemera. Matthew Reisz writes
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The Army and Democracy: Military Politics in Pakistan, by Aqil Shah
Farzana Shaikh finds persuasive arguments in an analysis of democracy and military rule in Pakistan
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Sino-Japanese Relations After the Cold War: Two Tigers Sharing a Mountain, by Michael Yahuda
Jonathan Mirsky on the politics and economics of the relationship between rapidly developing China and stagnating Japan