Citation impact helps China surge ahead in latest Asia rankings
Breakdown of year-on-year performance of different countries shows how Chinese universities are quickly catching up with Japan as Asia’s major higher education powerhouse

Breakdown of year-on-year performance of different countries shows how Chinese universities are quickly catching up with Japan as Asia’s major higher education powerhouse

Simon Baker, THE’s data editor, charts some of the different strengths and weaknesses among Asian countries’ universities

Just as the ‘little red dot’ city state has made an indelible mark on the global stage, president of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Subra Suresh examines how his institution has garnered...

China’s Southern University of Science and Technology puts an overriding emphasis on knitting together talented people from all regions and levels, says its president, Shiyi Chen

Futao Huang considers the five nations trying to compete with China, Asia’s higher education superpower

China has put itself atop the rankings and set the model that others seek to emulate, says Phil Baty

Singapore has the continent’s best university for the third year in a row but China’s stars are in the ascendant, says Ellie Bothwell
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Ellie Bothwell compares two Beijing universities, Tsinghua and Peking, to explain the former’s rise

In the first of a regular series looking at who is producing highly cited research in different areas, THE explores a subject currently deemed the ‘most prominent’ by Elsevier metricsÂ

Growing interest in the student mental health crisis is welcome, but it is overburdened hourly paid lecturers who are most at risk of stress in universities, says Sam Christie

Qatar is improving its university system faster than any other world economy, explains Cesar Wazen

Increased interest from EU and overseas fails to make up for shrinking 18-year-old population and reduced demand from mature students

Committee chair Robert Halfon calls for universities to offer more technical degrees or lose state funding

French president is credited with being behind boom in applications to study at Sciences Po