Britain is gripped by an unfounded "moral panic" that it needs to produce more home-grown science graduates to keep the economy competitive, the director of a six-year, ?5 million science and society...
Books on Fire
The World University Rankings 2007 are online here Martin Ince reveals the winners and losers in The Times Higher -QS World University Rankings 2007. The world's top ten universities are in the UK or...
Conference hears that the right pitch is key in luring demanding overseas 'consumers'. John Gill reports
Humankind worked something of a miracle in the second half of the 20th century. Population trebled, and water consumption increased in proportion. The limits of our resources were tested. But we...
One IT institute¡¯s dialogue with industry helps guarantee work for its graduates In a business park in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, employers are beating down the door of a university to get their hands...
After nearly a decade of work, an international team of earthquake scientists has produced the first estimates of seismic hazard levels for the entire world.At a meeting of the American Geophysical...
The Boy behind the Mask
As the University of Melbourne implements a radical new higher education model, some UK universities are showing interest in following suit. Hannah Fearn reports. Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the...
Michael Benton muses on our slippery past.
Natural Environment Research Council- Award winner: A. W. G. Pike- Institution: University of Bristol, School of Arts- Value: ?101,841Dating the Palaeolithic cave art of the Iberian peninsula by...
Asian English-taught courses growing A growing number of university courses in Asia are being taught in English, a paper from an international higher education research organisation has said. The...
Science and the Indian Tradition
We look at the top performers on each measure and suggest what their success means for the sector's development. The Times Higher-QS World University Rankings are a composite measure in which six...
We look at the top performers on each measure and suggest what their success means for the sector¡¯s development.