Independent thinking
It was nice to see the department of economic and social history at Glasgow University mentioned in Peter Wardley's review of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (Books, October 29). We are...
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World University Rankings 2004
 World University Rankings Published in The Times Higher on 5 November 2004 A first attempt to compare universities around the globe Editorial: Top performers on the global stage take a bow  ...
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Crossing the line: stories on mapping the maze
Heather Leach argues against narrative flow in the essay that won the Palgrave Macmillan/ Times Higher humanities and social sciences writing prize. Last year I was 60 - a threshold. I tilt my head...
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It's not just black and white any more
The experience of African-American studies has lessons for the UK despite debates about its aims and direction, Stephen Phillips finds in the last of our series on black academics. In 2001, Harvard...
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Get real if you want to hook them on history
Is 'Big Brother in costume' bringing the past alive? Laurie Taylor listens in at a conference on history and the media It didn't take long for my cover to be blown at the Imperial War Museum. I'd...
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The art attacks heat up in war on propaganda
A new exhibition examines the War on Terror in ways that the mainstream media do not, says Christopher Wood. Two opposing opinions are sometimes voiced about the conditions necessary for art to...
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Editorial: Top performers on the global stage take a bow
Students, academics and companies placing research contracts all need to know which are the best universities in the world. And the measures used to identify them are crucial, explains John O'Leary....
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Elements that paint a portrait of global powers
The Times Higher 's analysis of the world's top universities shows that quality is not the preserve of any single country. Martin Ince explains how the positions were worked out. The first lesson of...
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Intellectual cream rises to the top
Harvard enjoys an embarrassment of riches - the nation's best students, the world's elite scholars and a vast endowment - but it is not without its critics, Jon Marcus discovers There is a statue at...
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Wealthy set to challenge US while others languish
An EU research area is fast becoming a reality, but Europe's North-South divide lives on, argues Martin Ince. This analysis of Europe's top 50 universities might suggest that the English language is...
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Bounty won by declarations of independence
Freedom from central government control helped US institutions to claim 11 of the top 20 slots in the global rankings, as did an emphasis on biomedical sciences, observes Martin Ince. The US has more...
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West is best but there's a rich feast in the East
Citations might sometimes be lacking, finds Martin Ince, but numerous Asian and Australian universities are well regarded by academics around the world. In terms of higher education, the rest of the...
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Caltech's focus pays off
This table shows that whatever stresses the US university system may be experiencing, its personnel cannot be faulted on their research output. North American universities come close to a clean sweep...
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Teaching provides a firm base
Although it may not always be apparent from the pay packets they receive, staff are the biggest budget item for most universities. But this analysis suggests that not all prominent universities feel...
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Where the old show they are truly gold
This listing of the most-esteemed universities in the world, compiled on the basis of a peer review of 1,300 academics and weighted by area and subject, shows that old is beautiful. The top two are...