Leader: America's pyrrhic victory
The US has some outstanding universities, but there is a dark side to its achievements, which the UK would do well to avoid
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Northumbria University - Distant partners move closer
An agreement has been struck to tighten the bonds between a British university and a Malaysian institution with the aim of educating Malaysian and Asia-Pacific healthcare professionals. The deal...
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'Special relationship' must be worked on - or lost
British universities have been told that their "special relationship" with US institutions may be lost unless urgent action is taken to strengthen transatlantic links.A report published this week by...
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Year abroad may be out of reach as 105-year-old route overseas is closed
University language departments could be left in disarray by plans to suspend a 105-year-old scheme that has given tens of thousands of students the chance to study overseas.
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Acclaimed Cuban film school trains its focus on ‘cinema and life’
Inside the main building of the International School of Film and Television (EICTV) in Cuba, the atmosphere is a mixture of warm conviviality and frenetic hard work. Each year, around 500 applicants...
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Economics round-up
Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel DataAuthor: Jeffrey M. WooldridgeEdition: SecondPublisher: MIT PressPages: 1,096Price: £49.95ISBN 9780262232586This second edition aims to offer a...
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Leader: The lure of the great wide open
Liberal arts study, with its long view of how humanity has met its trials, is touted as ideal for the 21st century - but it's a hard sell
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Tweet victory or much ado? Jury still out on social media
Poll detects uncertainty about efficacy among marketers and alumni. Hannah Fearn reports
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Canary in the coal mine
Why has the idea of publicly funded higher education crumbled so quickly in England? James Vernon explores the origins of an academic culture that has internalised market rationalities and traces the...
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Odds and quads
Dom Sylvester Houedard (1924-92), often known as DSH, served with British military intelligence in Asia before becoming a Benedictine monk at Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire.While running the...
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Field rankings for The National University of Singapore
Field rankings for The National University of SingaporeData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 2000-31 August 2010Â FieldPapersCitesNUS cites per paperWorld...
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Campus round-up
University of UlsterGolden opportunityNorthern Ireland has been selected as the location for a Confucius Institute. Designed to foster academic, cultural, economic and social ties between China and...
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East v West and other conference sessions
Is internationalisation a Western construct?Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, the vice-chancellor of University Sains Malaysia, argued that if internationalisation really was solely about the exchange of...
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Franz Schurmann, 1926-2010
An academic expert on China and global politics who was also a pioneering journalist has died.Franz Schurmann, the son of a German mother and a Slovenian father, was born in New York on 21 June 1926...