Overseas briefing
United StatesProfessor quits in race rowA professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, has resigned from an admissions committee after claiming that officials are breaking rules to admit...
United StatesProfessor quits in race rowA professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, has resigned from an admissions committee after claiming that officials are breaking rules to admit...
British Council study says single-child policy will harm recruiting efforts. John Gill reports
Violence against females is rooted in our brutal past, but such acts are neither biologically nor culturally immutable, says David Roberts
The trashing of Howard Atkinson's potato trial transcends the genetics debate and could have profound consequences for food security
John Gill meets the man who pledges to restore intellectual freedom to US university campuses
United StatesTutor reinstated after reprimandA tutor who was fired for enrolling in his own classes at a college in Alabama is to be reinstated after an arbitrator's ruling. Henry Douglas, who...
Public-private collaboration to offer pre-university courses to overseas students. Olga Wojtas reports
In restoring oratory and rhetoric to a central role in public life, Barack Obama has shown how words and bearing can touch lives and change minds. Tom Palaima traces his lineage from Cato to Martin...
South KoreaSeoul searching for studentsThe number of foreign students at South Korea's universities will rise by 100,000 if government targets are hit. The Ministry of Education, Science and...
Timothy Darvill looks at how cultural change over 10,000 years has altered the face of Europe
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCESWitness to ExtinctionBy Samuel Turvey, research fellow, Institute of Zoology, University of CambridgeOxford University Press, £16.99ISBN 9780199549474In relating the plight of the...
The very top institutions may all be in the English-speaking world, but the top 200 are spread across 28 nations. Martin Ince reports. This fourth edition of The Times Higher-QS World University...
The very top institutions may all be in the English-speaking world, but the top 200 are spread across 28 nations.
Competitiveness index reveals 'new world order' as Europe and Asia gain. Hannah Fearn reports
(J) = Review forthcomingANTHROPOLOGY- Unstrange Minds: A Father Remaps the World of AutismBy Roy Richard Grinker, professor of anthropology, international affairs, and human sciences at the George...