In the place to be
Source: Reuters It’s clear from the continuing power shift from West to East and the success of Boston that real-world geography still plays a vital role in university excellence, even in the...
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Brics still finding building blocks
Source: Getty Phil Baty on the patchy performance of the big four developing nations in this year’s rankings The World University Rankings top 200 is unquestionably a rich-world list, dominated by...
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Upward mobility
Source: Corbis Dirk Van Damme considers the most improved universities in the rankingsWhat is the profile of the institutions that will most warmly welcome the publication of the World University...
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Watchwords for improvement
Source: Corbis Diversification and specialisation are driving movement in the tables, Dirk Van Damme finds Universities today – including the top ones – face tougher competition in a period of...
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Fresh view of pale blue dot
Phil Baty and Benjamin Hennig put the rankings results into human and economic perspective Click image to enlarge It is clear that the world’s best universities are overwhelmingly concentrated in the...
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Innovation is in the air - and everywhere else, too
Jean-Lou Chameau on the essential ecology of science and technology universities As in previous years, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014 will be noted and celebrated – or...
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May you lead in interesting times
Peking’s pedagogic approach is training captains to navigate choppy global waters, explains Enge Wang We live in a period of unprecedented opportunity and daunting challenges. On the one hand, the...
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Social path through Pasteur’s quadrant
Source: Science Photo Library University research is an astonishing force for good in the world, argues Leszek Borysiewicz Universities the world over have done much in recent decades to dispel the...
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Peer-to-peer culture
Source: Alamy Research-led teaching on campus is the best option for academics and students, argues Ian Young There is much rhetoric about the link between research and education. Indeed, it is often...
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Mutually inclusive goals
Source: Alamy A commitment to meeting national needs can lead a charge to world-class status, argues Adam HabibLeading any 21st-century university is a challenging task, but undertaking this...
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Highly accomplished outcasts
Source: Alamy Simon Pratt takes a closer look at the elite graduate schools and specialists excluded from the World University RankingsUniversity rankings can have far-reaching influence, and a...
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New world pecking order
Source: Corbis Ben Wildavsky charts the rise and rise of university rankings, domestic and internationalWhy do we rank schools and universities – or sports teams and washing machines, for that matter...
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Just 119 graduate entrepreneur visas granted in 12 months
A visa scheme set up to mitigate the loss of the post-study work route for international students granted just 119 work permits in its first year, Times Higher Education can reveal. The graduate...
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Capital offer
Source: Shutterstock During the Olympics I met the daughter of one of the Chinese investors invited to London by the mayor. She had chosen to come to university in the capital over the US so I asked...
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Royal Society celebrates Anglo-Brazilian links
The UK is the fastest-growing collaborator for researchers in Brazil’s richest state, data from Fapesp, the São Paulo Research Foundation, have shown. Speaking to Times Higher Education, Carlos...