Disciplines must relax if the big challenges are to be met
Faculties without borders are the key to turning multidisciplinarity into more than a buzzword, says Duncan Ivison
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THE Emerging Economies University Rankings 2018: results announced
China¡¯s ¡®educational inequality¡¯ revealed as country¡¯s lower-ranked universities fall further behind
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Should we be worried that women outnumber men on campus?
There are now more women than men in higher education worldwide. While it would appear to be a victory for gender equality, this imbalance also highlights boys¡¯ educational underachievement. Ellie...
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The New Chimpanzee: A Twenty-First-Century Portrait of Our Closest Kin, by Craig Stanford
Book of the week: Laura Kehoe welcomes a significant contribution to our understanding of primates¡¯ behaviour in the wild
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Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest, by Dean Vuletic
Keith Kahn-Harris on a pan-European event that is as much about competition and national identities as it is cooperation and friendship
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Academic Journal Guide 2018 names ¡®world elite¡¯ business titles
Revised edition reignites debate about value of journal ratings in academia
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Australia fears decline in Chinese students over ¡®treason¡¯ laws
Experts warn that prospective recruits may choose to study elsewhere if they do not feel welcome
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One in three students globally now in private higher education
Quality an ¡®urgent concern¡¯ as study reveals significant growth of private sector worldwide
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The UK cannot compete in the digital age without top universities
Having well-resourced and world-leading university research is crucial if the UK is to succeed as a knowledge economy, says Michael Drew
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Liverpool announces second China campus partnership
Up to 24,000 students will study at Xi¡¯an Jiaotong-Liverpool University¡¯s two campuses near Shanghai by 2028
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Times Higher Education Japan University Rankings 2018: results
Elite Japanese universities are renowned for their strength in research, but does their reputation also reflect quality in teaching? Times Higher Education¡¯s student-focused Japan University Rankings...
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Following the footprints of spies on campus
From MI5 recruiting, to students spying on each other and intelligence agencies funding research, Matthew Reisz explores the long and often uneasy relationship between espionage and the academy
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What are you reading? ¨C 15 February 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers