Wave of confidence
Source: Alamy The young universities celebrated in the 100 Under 50 are bullish: they have no fear of the future or of older rivals, says Phil Baty. When Times Higher Education conceived the 100...
Source: Alamy The young universities celebrated in the 100 Under 50 are bullish: they have no fear of the future or of older rivals, says Phil Baty. When Times Higher Education conceived the 100...
Youth need not be a disadvantage in a dynamic higher education scene, discovers Phil Baty. “Having an impact on the world is not about tradition and history – it’s about relevance in the contemporary...
The universities featured in the 100 Under 50 are spread across the globe, seeded and fed by baby booms, 1960s radicalism, political foresight and a voracious appetite for instruction. Click image to...
There’s more than one kind of young university, says Richard Higgott, but all need to nourish and be nourished by quality. The growth in the number of universities worldwide is one of the more...
Source: Alamy Wendy Purcell explains how and why university newcomers worldwide are offering bold new academic flavours. Older is better: well, that is what they say about wine – and what they used...
Umran Inan on the secret to global success: recruit the best scholars and get out of the way. Society is experiencing an explosion in the production of knowledge, and university education is in the...
The University of Texas at Dallas is destined for the academic top table, says David E. Daniel. In the early 1960s, the Dallas-Fort Worth region lacked a major scientific or engineering institution....
The first public debate as part of a worldwide consultation on the development of new indicators of a university’s social and economic impact took place at the Times Higher Education Young...
The Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2014 will be published on Wednesday 18 June 2014. The rankings, powered by data from Thomson Reuters, will go live on line at 21.00 BST on 18 June...
The Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2014 polls students across the UK on 21 aspects of university life that students themselves say matter to them most. They cover everything from...
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings use 13 separate performance indicators to judge world class universities against all their core missions, including research, knowledge transfer...
The data show that power is moving eastwards, says Phil Baty, and the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2014 map this shifting R&D environment. By Western standards, the scale and...
Japan’s position at the top is being challenged by neighbours near and far intent on promoting and investing in their universities. Phil Baty reports. China is mounting a serious challenge to Japan’s...
The Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2014 show nations jockeying for position in a highly competitive environment. Here’s a snapshot of the runners and riders. Click image to enlarge
Regulation and world rankings provide a way to meet the challenges presented by India’s higher education expansion, argues Ashok Thakur. With more than 27 million students enrolled, India now has the...