The delegate's tale
Christopher Bigsby on conferences’ picaresque perils and delights
Christopher Bigsby on conferences’ picaresque perils and delights
Scholars should go easy on the jokes as a bad crack can cause all sorts of problems. Jack Grove reports
Universities in Europe have been advised by a World Bank official to look to developing countries for inspiration rather than copying British and US models of higher education.
Expanding into the Big Apple provides a platform for high-tech start-ups. John Morgan reports
The most happily international higher education systems aren't the superpowers. John Gill writes
As a new exhibition illuminates the creative expressions of a Muslim ritual, James Piscatori explores its spiritual dimension
Jon Baldwin has left for Australia, but he has a few home truths to impart from abroad about the mess the UK academy is in
More than 450 private colleges have been stopped from recruiting international students after most of them failed to sign up to the Home Office’s new rules for inspection of the sector.
Informed opinion at the heart of the matter Thousands worldwide have responded to our Academic Reputation Survey, whose rigorous methodology addresses common concerns and shows what scholars really...
An international network of scholars is set to analyse nationalistic tensions in East Asia. Led by academics at the Institute of Education, the project will encourage research into how schooling and...
The phrases "internal colonisation" and "self-colonisation" have, through overuse, become associated with political correctness. Russia has long been both subject and object of colonisation....
The world's most comprehensive visual record of tribal cultures in South Asia and the Himalayas has gone online. More than 10,000 rare images are now available to researchers and the general public...
The days when international students flooded into the UK to study at its world-renowned universities may not be over, but the dynamics are rapidly changing.According to statistics published last week...
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Malcolm Gillies argues that to succeed, universities must be of the moment