Asian crisis to cost Pounds 300m
British universities are redirecting their overseas recruitment efforts as they prepare for a collapse in their Asian Tigers market. Institutions in the United Kingdom stand to lose over Pounds 300...
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Out of India
Contemporary South Asia (three times a year) - South Asia Research (two issues a year)
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US schools feel the pinch
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia Jae Lee is studying international relations at Boston University. But the 20-year-old South Korean student...
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Brussels seeks state targets for research staff and output
European Union countries could face new benchmarks on staff numbers, spending and achievements in research, under proposals discussed in Brussels this week. Research ministers, meeting as The THES...
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The first Asian tigers
Reorient
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Can UK make a great leap in knowledge?
Claire Sanders looks at why Chinese studies is struggling in the UK when China is booming. Oxford University's appointment of Cornell professor Vivienne Shue as its first professor of contemporary...
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Industrious habits of cities past
Indus Age - Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization
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Family china may be chipped but it is still very much in use
Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations
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Change that shrinks a planet
World History - From Dawn to Decadence, 1500 to the Present
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Quest for league tables' holy grail
A leading US school has embarked on a quest to find the holy grail of university league tables - how to measure accurately the academic impact an institution makes on its students. Columbia...
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Science's struggle to mould imperial subjects
'Native' scholars used to help transmit knowledge of western science to Indians, undermining the British effort to present European learning as an example of civilisation superiority, argues Michael...
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QAA forges links to keep Britain ahead of the US and Australia
British higher education is playing the quality card in its efforts to compete with Australia and the United States for a share of the Southeast Asian market. Close links between government...
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Australian v-cs sign French exchange deal
Committees representing Australian and French vice-chancellors have signed a formal agreement on co-operation involving staff and student exchanges, research collaboration and mutual recognition of...
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Search for words of dead pots' society
Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European
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Held hostage by history
Through the stories of captives, Linda Colley found an alternative image of the British Empire that had itself been locked away, writes Karen Gold. When the British historian Linda Colley met her...