World University Rankings 2009
The Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings for 2009 will be published here at 00.01 on Thursday 8 October
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World rankings provoke global reaction
The 2008 Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings have provoked a response worldwide, as power-shifts among the top 200 institutions are analysed.
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From Where I Sit - Campaigning for the dream vote
What must surely be the longest presidential campaign in US history is taking place in an unlimited media environment, yet not since the 1920s has academic opinion so despaired of the educative value...
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Computer or Manager? Spot the Difference
Several leading national newspapers were quick to pick up on the news that our current Head of Computation, Professor Norbert Norbert, has designed a "university management computer" which is...
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Why is funding so unfair?
When it comes to grants, Tim Birkhead knows just how Kevin the Teenager feels
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Off Piste: The trick is not the real treat
In performing magic, academic and author Dale Salwak found a demanding calling that rewarded him with joy and self-discovery
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Leader: A measure much needed
Always controversial, the World University Rankings are nevertheless an invaluable quality-marker for the sector
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Brian Bercusson, 1947-2008
Brian Bercusson, one of the world's leading authorities on European labour law, has died.Although he was born in Montreal in 1947 and initially educated in Canada and Israel, Professor Bercusson...
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Model masters but minimalist sixth forms 1
In your comprehensive analysis of the Bologna Process you state "the one-year masters offered by UK universities could be seen as minimalist, even lazy" ("The long and the short of it", 2 October)....
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Model masters but minimalist sixth forms 2
No discussion of the masters degree is complete without taking note of another peculiarity of English - though less so Scottish - education, namely the specialised sixth form, which transfers to...
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'Isms' are still fighting fit 1
I am disappointed that no challenge was presented to the ignorant views of the blogger and Bruce Charlton who claim that feminism is "bullshit" and a "stupid academic fad" ("US blogger plots graph to...
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'Isms' are still fighting fit 2
Bruce Charlton, a reader in evolutionary psychiatry, who for some reason is quick to point out that he has an MA in English literature, informs us that in the past "at some point, the humanities...
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'Isms' are still fighting fit 3
It is ironic that your US blogger should claim that Marxism is dead, and that it had very little basis as an economic theory, at the very time that capitalist economists and commentators are widely...
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'Isms' are still fighting fit 4
In their attacks on recently discredited and declining "isms" such as Marxism and feminism, Bruce Charlton and the unnamed blogger might have mentioned a few more examples such as capitalism,...
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Rankings not so rated
Robert Johnson Jr proposes a consumer guide to university rankings and suggests that the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings would deserve to be highly rated in any such consumer...