Overseas briefing
United StatesBrigham Young lifts YouTube banA Mormon-affiliated university where students must agree to live a "chaste and virtuous" life has lifted its ban on YouTube. For the last three years,...
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Branching out
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...
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The most-cited nations
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its National Science Indicators, 2005-09
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City/Westminster - London helps Asian journalists
Two London universities are helping to develop journalism skills in Asia. City University London's journalism department has won a British Council contract to assess journalism education and training...
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News in brief
Widening participationForty-five per cent and countingThe government has edged closer towards its 50 per cent target for participation in higher education. Statistics published last week show that in...
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Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
The Islamic renaissance laid the foundations for much modern thinking, writes Emilie Savage-Smith
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Little Britain must expand
If the academy is to survive, it needs domestic support to take the offensive internationally, argues Anthony Seldon
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Overseas briefing
United StatesStudent-loans revampThe student-loan reforms seen as a cornerstone of Barack Obama's education agenda have been passed alongside healthcare legislation. While the healthcare reform bill...
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The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World
Sir Howard Newby appreciates a wake-up call for the US academy that will ring alarm bells here, too
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- James Barry, 1741-1806: History PainterEdited by Tom Dunne, emeritus professor of history, University College Cork, and William Pressly, professor of art history...
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Ariel casts out Caliban
The concept of the 'killer-ape' offers a pessimistic reflection of humanity and its genesis, but the latest research shows that a primate species whose success is based on mutual aid and pleasure,...
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The rise of retractions in science – more misconduct or stiffer scrutiny?
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Web of Science database, January 1990-July 2009
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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,...
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Newcastle University - Malaysian campus launched
A medical campus has been opened in Malaysia by Newcastle University. Situated in the new Iskandar development close to Singapore, it will begin enrolling students in September 2009. It will provide...
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Times Higher Education confirms new Asia University Rankings
Posted by Phil Baty   18 March 2013  Times Higher Education has announced an important new addition to its portfolio of prestigious international university rankings.On 10 April 2013, the magazine...