Novel argument
Robert Eaglestone on a bravura exploration of the most demanding subject in literary criticism
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Report highlights huge growth in overseas student numbers
International students make up 12 per cent of the total student population at UK universities, a sharp rise from 8 per cent eight years earlier.
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V-cs go it alone in Asia market
Melbourne. AUSTRALIA's top universities fear their share of the world market for students is slipping because of bad publicity in Asia. They identify two causes: adverse publicity around the anti-...
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WIPO Reports Exceptional Growth from North East Asia in Record Year for International Patent Filings
Geneva, 06 Feb 2006 In a year that saw a record number of international patent filings, the Republic of Korea overtook the Netherlands as the 6th biggest user of the World Intellectual Property...
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Campus round-up - 3 October 2013
Source: AlamyRing of bright waterPhotographic proof has been found that otters have returned to a tributary of the River Thames in the South East of England. A鈥塒hD student at the University of Surrey...
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Careworn was made to聽care
Stina Lyon lauds a major theorist鈥檚 look at a global marketplace where everything鈥檚 for sale
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Evidence urges policy change for UKBA
I agree with your conclusions about Prime Minister David Cameron鈥檚 potentially颅encouraging statement in India on student visas (鈥淭alk of fair play is not enough鈥, Leader, 21聽February). While it is...
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Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
Vernon Bogdanor doffs his cap to a monument of objective, disinterested historical scholarship
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Campus round-up
Shrinking resourceAbout half of Cambodia鈥檚 tropical flooded grassland has been lost in a decade, university research suggests. According to scientists at the University of East Anglia, the grassland...
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Campus round-up - 28 March 2013
Source: Dominic StaffordShrinking resourceAbout half of Cambodia鈥檚 tropical flooded grassland has been lost in a decade, university research suggests. According to scientists at the University of...
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So How鈥檚 the Family? and Other Essays, by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Stina Lyon on the personal and emotional costs of a global marketplace where everything鈥檚 for sale
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The Endtimes of Human Rights, by Stephen Hopgood
Conor Gearty on an impassioned attack on 鈥榠mperialism disguised as moralism鈥
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The week in higher education
A Cardiff-born expatriate lecturer has won fame in East Asia after reaching the semi-finals of China鈥檚 Got Talent for his rendition of revolutionary songs dressed in a Mao-style uniform. Iain Inglis...
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28 March - 3 April 2013 - The week in higher education
A Cardiff-born expatriate lecturer has won fame in East Asia after reaching the semi-finals of China鈥檚 Got Talent for his rendition of revolutionary songs dressed in a Mao-style uniform. Iain Inglis...
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We're going to need a bigger net
The 100 Under 50 helps to correct the bias towards traditional universities manifest in most rankings and gives a sense of the deeper intellectual resources being tapped by new ones, argues Peter...