Campus close-up: ‘Authoritative voice’ set to project on the world stage
UCL-led centre aims to clarify complexity – and dispel a few myths, too
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Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans, by Malcolm Gaskill
Donald M. MacRaild on the English colonists’ determination to hold on to their identity in the New World
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Asia's deadly enigma
Question: which country suffers famine, launches missiles over its neighbours and prints counterfeit dollar bills? Answer: the secret Stalinist state of North Korea. Aidan Foster-Carter reports...
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English universities ‘over-reliant’ on Chinese postgraduates
The number of Chinese students enrolling on full-time taught master’s courses in England has grown to all but match the number of home students.
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UK loses out to Asia on business cash
Funding of university research by UK businesses has stalled as companies plough more money into research in China and India, according to the Council for Industry in Higher Education, writes Claire...
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World Reputation Rankings 2015 results
‘Super-league’ can’t be shaken from the top
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World in brief - 19 February 2015
United StatesClose college for two years, say lawmakersState legislators have provoked anger by saying that a historically black college experiencing financial problems should close for two years. A...
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Women's lib in Asia
AN INDIAN academic who held The THES Exchange Fellowship in 1997 has carried out a comparison of the legal status of women in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Uma Devi, reader in law at Sri...
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The tactics of Asia's top tiger
From Third World to First
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Brexit: the perks and pitfalls for higher education
After Tory victory in the general election, an EU exit could become reality. We hear from both sides of the debate
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Tapping new seams
As the state disinvests, Queensland is securing the future of its student experience and research by diversifying its income streams, writes Peter Høj
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Transnational courses earn the UK £496 million
Government estimate is significantly higher than in previous assessments
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Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Hope and the Humanist Imagination, by Ken Plummer
A sexology for our age examines a global and multifaceted part of humanity, says Sally R. Munt
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Dynamic characters
The 100 Under 50 universities are marked by their energy, innovation and fearless approach to the future, write Phil Baty and Katie Duncan
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Miwa Hirono: my Home Office hell
Top academics will be increasingly reluctant to come to the UK, says Hirono, who is being forced to quit Britain despite her permanent post