Harvard repeats double whammy
Familiar names top the lists but others have reason to cheer, especially in belles-lettres, says Martin Ince Harvard is the big winner in the last of The Times Higher faculty-level analyses of world...
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Off the campus, but in no way off the map
This table [see link to table below] shows the world's most productive non-university institutions in the social sciences. It covers institutions with more than 5,000 papers in the Thomson Scientific...
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A phoenix risen: influential Chicago sets pace and style
The motto of the University of Chicago is Crescat scientia; vita excolatur : "Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched." The cerebral private university lives up to this...
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Diploma mills may gain from Katrina
Proposed legislation meant to make things easier for US universities and staff affected by Hurricane Katrina has created opportunities for profit-making proprietary schools. Senate Bill 1715 removes...
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NZ universities seek distinction
New Zealand's universities are aiming to differentiate themselves clearly from the country's polytechnics, writes Richard Thomson in Wellington. The universities hope discussions with the Government...
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Euro 'MIT' plan finds few backers
The European Commission's idea of creating a European Institute of Technology (EIT) to rival the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has sparked hostility and scepticism among universities....
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Quest for quality
France's universities must attract better-qualified foreign students if they are to meet research and development objectives, according to the state planning commission, the Commissariat du Plan. The...
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Provinces left out of the loop
The Canadian Government is to skirt the provinces' educational power by giving money directly to tens of thousands of post-secondary students, cutting the cost of attending university. Belinda...
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EU talks to drive reforms
European Union membership talks with Turkey will lead to a major overhaul of the way the country’s universities are run, according to Hüseyin Çelik, the Education Minister. Yok, the higher education...
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Turbo-charged support all set to boost take-up
An increased package of financial aid for part-timers will bring benefits for students and institutions, Bill Rammell writes This week, I announced the funding arrangements for part-time...
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Nancy Rothwell
Feeling imposed upon is worse than having too much work. Don't be a martyr to jobs you detest - delegate that admin Last week I was told by a colleague that I should feel stressed. So I'm working on...
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No beating around the Bush
America's gift to the world when it comes to exams is the multiple-choice test, observed Barry McGaw of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development at a conference in Cambridge this...
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Thinking outside the box
At the same conference, Baroness Onora O'Neill, principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, also had the issue of nationhood and ethnicity in her sights. But her ire was reserved for forms and paperwork...
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Dark horse gallops to the fore
Only four months to go before we know who gets the top job. No, not the Tories - even they can't drag it out that long. This is the successor to Sir Howard Newby as chief executive of the Higher...
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We'll take the high road...
Aberdeen University may have slightly ruffled the feathers of its sister institutions with a leafleting campaign across the country claiming it is "far beyond St Andrews, well above Edinburgh, ahead...