UUK head: cuts reality 'rather different to the headlines'
Steve Smith warns that downbeat media theme will damage UK global reputation. John Morgan reports
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From where I sit - Work on facts behind the figures
We live in a world of informed choices. The bulk of students seeking a degree still opt for universities in their home countries. Their decisions are shaped by a variety of considerations, such as an...
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Land of the rising sun aims to reverse its scientific eclipse
At the heart of Japan’s decline is a dearth of international collaboration. Paul Jump reports
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The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition and Human Development in the Western World since 1700
This contribution to a topic that is rarely out of the news for long is by four distinguished scholars, each an expert in his field, and one of them, Robert Fogel, is a winner of the Nobel prize for...
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World renown: scholars respond in droves to reputation survey
The numbers are in: more than 17,500 academics from 137 countries completed the Academic Reputation Survey that will be used to inform the forthcoming 2011-12 ÌÇÐÄVlog World University...
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Global branches are still lopsided
Emerging economies will come to reject unequal exchanges, expert says. Sarah Cunnane reports
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TV review: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Computers have not liberated us, Gary Day learns, but rather locked us in a corporate capitalist world
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The high watermark of the Anglo-American academy
US and UK reign over the ‘global research university’ will be overthrown by the East’s rise and mainland Europe’s resurgence, expert predicts. John Morgan reports
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Cuts endanger Anglo-American supremacy
UK universities could be eclipsed by those in emerging economies such as China and instead become more aligned with their middle-ranking counterparts in continental Europe if public funding continues...
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Sun sets on Western dominance as East Asian Confucian model takes lead
The US approach to higher education is no longer the world leader as the "Confucian model" has put East Asia's universities at the cutting edge.This was the argument set out by Simon Marginson,...
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Turkey: A Short History
A historical narrative about Turkey is impressive but lacks a framework, warns M. Şükrü Hanioğlu
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Universities could be in private hands 'in six months'
Mooted change in legal status may allow investors to obtain degree-awarding powers. John Morgan writes
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The Global Forest: 40 Ways Trees Can Save Us
A tribute to trees and the diverse nature of their impact on our lives is no revelation to Jules Pretty
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Appointments
University College LondonMichael WortonAn English academic has been honoured with an award usually reserved for French nationals. Michael Worton, vice-provost (international) and Fielden professor of...
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Support for reputation measure; respondent profiles boost confidence
The use of reputation surveys in university rankings is controversial. Many do not like the combination of subjective information with objective data and there are concerns that reputation surveys...