World insight: liberal arts education is booming, just not in the US
Charles Bailyn's time in Asia has opened his eyes to the high regard in which a liberal arts education is still held internationally
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Higher education access targets 鈥榮et to be missed鈥 in the developing world
Cambridge study finds women are least likely to benefit when university enrolment is expanded in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
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Latin America University Rankings 2016: results to be announced on 7 July
Latin America ranking will include 50 institutions and will be exclusively launched at the THE Latin America Universities Summit
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Wrangles over Hong Kong鈥檚 political future must not hold us back
Hong Kong鈥檚 position at the intersection of the Western world with China makes it a test bed for China鈥檚 鈥渙pening up鈥, with the University of Hong Kong at its centre, says the institution's president...
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Can India and China dominate HE in the 21st century?
John Morgan reports on the differences between the countries in terms of the provision of education, governance and the quality of research
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Languages crisis in the US highlighted in new report
American Academy of Arts and Sciences warns that problem exists from school right through to university
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'Springboard to Asia' cordially invites UK scholars
The government of Hong Kong is looking to British academics to help fill a teaching gap created by major changes to its education system.In an interview with 探花视频, Kenneth Chen,...
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China: what are the lessons of expansion?
New report indicates that more doesn鈥檛 always mean more equal
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World University Rankings 2016-2017: Why it鈥檚 hard to make global comparisons in higher education
An increasing drive to compare university offerings worldwide is hampered by the particular nature of teaching and learning, writes Paul Ashwin, professor of higher education, Lancaster University
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THE Teaching Survey 2017: results and analysis
Academics enjoy teaching. What they don鈥檛 like is the lack of preparation time, bureaucratic burdens, unprepared students 鈥 and the TEF. Jack Grove reports
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Interview with Stephen Buckman
We talk blue-sky thinking, academic mobility and not 鈥榮weating the small stuff鈥 with the new聽Australian Research Council funding director
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The rise of European university networks
University leaders from across the Continent explain why collaboration is more important than ever as a new mission group forms in Amsterdam
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New and noteworthy 鈥 11 August 2016
Hey presto! This week鈥檚 books to astonish and enlighten survey modern magic in Asia, physics with a feminist focus, the work of Elizabeth Bishop and the museum as creative spark
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Study shines light on success of Germany鈥檚 Excellence Initiative
鈥楥lusters of excellence鈥 have created highly cited publications, but the amount of money involved is still relatively small