This exercise was all about excellence, and that's just what we got
By exerting steady upward pressure on quality, the RAE gave the UK much to celebrate and the world much to envy, says David Eastwood
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Santa Claus research: the ten most cited papers
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Web of Science database, 1900-2008
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RAE 2008 proves UK research is world class
Oxbridge and the LSE top the table, but former polytechnics make huge leaps, writes Zoe Corbyn
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The Week in Higher Education
- More than half of students are given the wrong A-level predictions, with boys most likely to be marked down, a study has found. As many as 55 per cent of students are given inaccurate estimates,...
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A fighting chance
Gary Day on life after the Army, teenagers and technology, lost childhoods and 90 years of the RAF
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Cartoon by Ham
Cartoon by Ham
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RAE 2008 results prompt a flurry of analysis
The University of Cambridge is generally agreed to be the top performer, while the position of other institutions fluctuates across league tables. John Gill reports
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Playing pretend
Tara Brabazon argues that popularising serious ideas enlightens no one
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Stars of wonder
From nativity scenes to Apollo 8 and Beagle 2, our eternal fascination with the heavens is never greater than at Christmas, recounts Colin Pillinger
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Cranfield University - Pakistani v-cs join the debate
Fourteen vice-chancellors from universities across Pakistan have visited Cranfield University's Bedfordshire campus to take part in a debate about global higher education. The visit was part of a ten...
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Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) results, 2008
As the findings of the final research assessment exercise are released, Times Higher Education has devised tables of excellence to rank institutions according to their subject successes and their...
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Festive faux pas
Gloria Monday wonders about the dean’s motives in choosing the evening of the RAE results day for his annual Christmas party
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Read this T-shirt first
At a time when writing on technology and the future is banal, Tara Brabazon discovers a new source of trenchant critical commentary
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We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War
Despite the bad press, journalists played an important role in the conflict, says Julius Ruiz
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Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
In Britain in 1914, the stern and imposing figure of Field Marshal Lord Kitchener pointed a finger at young men, telling them, peremptorily: "Your country needs YOU." In the US in 1917, Uncle Sam...