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Managing the Wild: Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests, by Charles M. Peters
Excluding local people from conservation is not the way to preserve vital vegetation, as it is they whose practices produce the ecologies we value, finds Steven Yearley
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US university revokes scholarships after going over budget
Fears over international impact of UT Tyler’s decision, with Nepalese applicants hardest hit
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Disciplines must relax if the big challenges are to be met
Faculties without borders are the key to turning multidisciplinarity into more than a buzzword, says Duncan Ivison
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The 15 most popular World University Rankings stories of 2017
A look at the most-read Times Higher Education university rankings articles from the past 12 months
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Liverpool announces second China campus partnership
Up to 24,000 students will study at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University’s two campuses near Shanghai by 2028
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Nationalist style politics will trigger a new wave of international mobility
Looking at past trends, Rahul Choudaha predicts the motivations and expectations of the next wave of global students
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THE Young University Rankings 2018: Millennial universities
The best of those universities founded since the year 2000
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Free education: at what cost?
As Malaysian politicians flirt with fee-free higher education, our Asia-Pacific editor John Ross, reflects on how promises of free tuition are often at the detriment of more useful policy
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Internationalisation key as Asian challengers bid to reap returns
Investment is ‘necessary but not sufficient’ to enable world-class research, which also relies on international collaboration
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China’s overseas investment should not neglect education
History shows that the Belt and Road initiative will be successful only if it boosts human capital, as well as physical infrastructure, says Alan Ruby
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Are universities engines or products of economic growth?
To what extent can universities drive economic development – or vice versa? Rachael Pells explores the ways in which higher education and economic success interact
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World University Rankings 2018 by subject: engineering and computer science results out now
Universities in the US lead Times Higher Education’s rankings for engineering and technology and computer science; Peking and NUS are Asia’s top performers
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Legacy draws Australian universities back to Western civilisation
Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, funded by £1.7 billion bequest, to fund degree courses in several institutions
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Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest, by Dean Vuletic
Keith Kahn-Harris on a pan-European event that is as much about competition and national identities as it is cooperation and friendship