Appointments
University College LondonMichael WortonAn English academic has been honoured with an award usually reserved for French nationals. Michael Worton, vice-provost (international) and Fielden professor of...
University College LondonMichael WortonAn English academic has been honoured with an award usually reserved for French nationals. Michael Worton, vice-provost (international) and Fielden professor of...
University of UlsterGolden opportunityNorthern Ireland has been selected as the location for a Confucius Institute. Designed to foster academic, cultural, economic and social ties between China and...
World rankingsNeeded but not always wantedWorld university rankings are "like vice-chancellors and in-laws: we may not always like them, but we know we need them". That was the argument made by Kevin...
Modern criminals have undergone a "career change", switching focus from traditional house burglaries to personal muggings, according to research. The study by James Treadwell, a lecturer in...
As alumni donations to US universities plummet, Canada and Asia forge ahead. Hannah Fearn writes
University of LeicesterHelen YaffeA historian who stood in anti-apartheid picket lines in London in the 1980s is now researching the movement as part of her new role at the University of Leicester....
Ambitious initiative will inform the 2011-12 THE World University Rankings. Phil Baty reports
The numbers are in: more than 17,500 academics from 137 countries completed the Academic Reputation Survey that will be used to inform the forthcoming 2011-12 Times Higher Education World University...
Australia and New Zealand see marked growth in research collaborations with China, reports Zoë Corbyn
Top European universities in engineeringData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-August 2010Euro rankWorld rankInstitutionPapersCitationsCitations per...
The “academy in crisis” emerged as a key theme on the first day of the Modern Language Association of America conference, as thousands of humanities scholars gathered in California for the annual...
Several factors have helped Kazakhstan grow rapidly in the two decades that it has been an independent country, among them abundant natural resources and proximity to large markets in Europe and Asia...
University of TorontoBarbara DickA former student of the University of Toronto has been appointed as its assistant vice-president (alumni relations). Barbara Dick graduated from University College at...
Global warming could cause major famine in Asia within decades, according to Peter Clift of the School of Geosciences at the University of Aberdeen. Professor Clift predicts in his newly published...
Computers have not liberated us, Gary Day learns, but rather locked us in a corporate capitalist world