History round-up
A Concise Companion to HistoryEditor: Ulinka RublackEdition: FirstPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 480Price: £25.00ISBN 9780199291212As old certainties in the discipline prove less secure,...
A Concise Companion to HistoryEditor: Ulinka RublackEdition: FirstPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 480Price: £25.00ISBN 9780199291212As old certainties in the discipline prove less secure,...
Targeted global scholars respond in droves to Academic Reputation Survey. Phil Baty reports
Research reveals positives and pitfalls for Sino-UK university joint ventures. John Morgan reports
Via study-away sites, local partnerships, portals and fully fledged overseas campuses, ambitious universities in the West are increasingly keen to take root elsewhere. John Morgan asks how the...
An insightful analysis evinces the relevance of a Victorian conflict to today's ills, writes A.W. Purdue
Prime minister's delegation agrees joint research projects and greater cooperation. Paul Jump reports
As public funding shrinks, fundraising becomes crucial for universities. Adrian Beney examines how UK institutions are approaching the challenge and what they can learn from US methods
KenyaBonds: licence to expandKenya plans to sell 10 billion shillings (£79.5 million) of bonds to finance an expansion of its universities that would stop students from being turned away owing to...
University research generates ideas and keeps the country competitive - so we must protect its funding, argues Paul Wellings
Is internationalisation a Western construct?Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, the vice-chancellor of University Sains Malaysia, argued that if internationalisation really was solely about the exchange of...
How do you become an academic and a scholar? Usually, those who aim to research and teach are privileged with a formal education and spend their lives in academia. It is virtually impossible to come...
Kenneth Baker calls on universities to seek financial independence from the state, and for the state to handle a precious asset with care
The creative industries must be given as much support as STEM subjects to keep the UK at the forefront of the world economy, argues David Docherty
Australian universities are worried that bad publicity is putting off international students. Such students are lucrative business and one of the reasons they flocked to Australia in the past was...
Compared with global peers, UK academics are most negative about work. Paul Jump reports