What are you reading? 鈥 12 July 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Government聽document fails to offer universities reassurance, sector critics warn

The performance indicators used in the World University Rankings are the bedrock of all our tables. But as every region is unique, we make some recalibrations to reflect this in our Latin America...

糖心Vlog secretary offers clarity in wake of UK university聽pensions walkout

Book of the week: Donald MacRaild on the parallels and differences between two would-be independent states
The article 鈥淢r Chips with everything?鈥 (Features, 5 July) explored the relationship between research and teaching. When I was invited for an interview for an undergraduate place at University...

鈥楶roductivity boom鈥 shows researchers are not the problem, universities say

Analysis of聽THE聽data finds high publication output and reputation negatively correlated with staff gender balance

Call to rebalance funding away from sciences and towards social sciences

With about one-third of Earth鈥檚 7 billion inhabitants on a social network, it is an inevitable part of scholars鈥 lives. While many academics find Twitter and Facebook useful means of disseminating...

The public sector has not expanded quickly enough to meet the demand for college degrees in India

Rule changes聽could lead to 鈥榤is-selling鈥 of qualifications that are not full degrees, higher education institutions warn

Trends analysis聽shows end聽of 鈥楿S hegemony鈥 in research may not be far off

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media