The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change
Rapid global temperature shifts are nothing new, as Steve Yearley learns from a cold country's core
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THE Asia University Rankings 2014 publication date revealed
The ÌÇÐÄVlog Asia University Rankings 2014 will be published on Wednesday 18 June 2014. The rankings, powered by data from Thomson Reuters, will go live on line at 21.00 BST on 18 June...
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News in Brief
CanadaCheers for 310 new chairsA C$5.6 million (£173 million) injection of funds for science and technology research aims to put Canada among the world leaders in those fields. Tony Clement, the...
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The rise of Asia-Pacific Universities: Power is where power goes
4 October 2012 Public investment in the Asia-Pacific academy seems to be paying off as the area's institutions climb the World University Rankings. So who are they displacing? It doesn't take much to...
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THE World University Rankings
ÌÇÐÄVlog regularly writes about the effects of bureaucracy on the academy - quality assurance, research assessment, grant applications and the demands of quangos and other "stakeholders...
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Leader: Fortune will favour the brave
Changes ahead on the higher education horizon may prove the making of some institutions and the breaking of others
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Asians take new Silk Road to the heart of America
Growing middle class in China credited for surge in students from region. John Morgan writes
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Herding Cats: Being Advice to Aspiring Academic and Research Leaders
Malcolm Gillies enjoys this aphoristic guide to university life but fears time may have moved on
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Sector link-ups must mind the cultural gap
Research reveals positives and pitfalls for Sino-UK university joint ventures. John Morgan reports
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An upturn in the downturn for MBA graduates worldwide
As MBA graduate career prospects recover, the student profile is shifting. Matthew Reisz reports
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School of Oriental and African Studies - Back on the good foot
An academic has paved the way for the reassembly of an important Buddhist statue after finding its legs in a Cambodian forest. The largest intact piece of the eight-headed, 3m-high sandstone statue,...
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World War II: A New History
Author: Evan MawdsleyEdition: FirstPublisher: Cambridge University PressPages: 498Price: £50.00 and £16.99ISBN 9780521845922 and 1608435Was the Second World War really a world war - and when and...
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Sorry, non comprendo, I'm British
Modern languages should be a passport to life, so why are so few students queuing up to learn them? In a special report on Britain's linguistic skills gap, Matthew Reisz discovers that, globally...
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Selective memory
I can't help thinking that the article on Malaysia ("Quintessentially Britain, truly Asia", August) may have crossed the line in suggesting that memories of the British colonial period are generally...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Rethinking the Interior, c. 1867-1896Edited by Jason Edwards, reader in art history, University of York, and Imogen Hart, postdoctoral research associate, Yale...