The world transformed: trends driving change in higher education
With one more year to go until the end of a decade that is transforming universities worldwide, Times Higher Education looks at the trends that have shaped the past 12 months
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France boosts international student numbers
Increase may reflect efforts to target markets where UK has traditionally been strong
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Which countries’ HE systems are globalising quickest?
Four years of data from É«ºÐÖ±²¥â€™s world rankings show that the UK appears to have stalled on internationalisation compared with some rivals
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Scepticism of Australian research grant assessment won’t be quelled anytime soon
Australia’s twice-unlucky research grant applicants raise questions about the assessment process, but they could help elevate science as an election issue, says John Ross
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Books interview: Shane Hamilton
The lecturer in international business and strategy and author of Supermarket USA on big books, the ‘Cold War Farms Race’ and jazzed-up propaganda battles
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É«ºÐÖ±²¥ Podcast: the competition for global talent
University leaders from Russia and India and an executive from Microsoft discuss how to attract and retain top-tier academics
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Asian university systems rated higher than graduates by firms
Preview data from upcoming Global University Employability Ranking show view is reversed for some European nations
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Will China be the new centre of gravity in world of research?
Simon Baker examines the rise of China as a research nation and the worries this provokes among some Westerners
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UK higher education must recalibrate to register on Asia’s scales
China’s universities are using tough criteria to choose Western partners and, says Michael Hitchcock, British institutions fare poorly
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É«ºÐÖ±²¥ podcast: is Australia's international student boom about to go bust?
A period of explosive growth and cuts in government funding has left many institutions too reliant on foreign student feesÂ
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Finding fault in Australia’s latest data dump
The Australian government has released three major data sets unusually back-to-back and full of mistakes, leading John Ross to ask: why so much, why so fast and why so erroneous?
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Australian universities fear ‘grand challenges’ research focus
Response to row over vetoing of humanities grants could result in curiosity-driven scholarship being pushed out