The week in higher education
A Cardiff-born expatriate lecturer has won fame in East Asia after reaching the semi-finals of China’s Got Talent for his rendition of revolutionary songs dressed in a Mao-style uniform. Iain Inglis...
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Campus round-up - 28 March 2013
Source: Dominic StaffordShrinking resourceAbout half of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grassland has been lost in a decade, university research suggests. According to scientists at the University of...
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Campus round-up
Shrinking resourceAbout half of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grassland has been lost in a decade, university research suggests. According to scientists at the University of East Anglia, the grassland...
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Emergent properties
Phil Baty on the institutions creating valuable niches for themselves in a fast-changing environment
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Report highlights huge growth in overseas student numbers
International students make up 12 per cent of the total student population at UK universities, a sharp rise from 8 per cent eight years earlier.
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Of a different stripe
The suggestion that Pearson's apparent interest in acquiring the College of Law (The Week in Higher Education, 15 December) might cause the state-funded sector to "...feel like wildebeest about to...
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Women demand seat at the tables
Manifesto calls for university rankings to take gender gap into account. David Matthews writes
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World Reputation Rankings 2013 methodology
? Poll position: experts think these are the best in the business The excellent response to the third round of the annual Academic Reputation Survey gives an even more accurate picture of scholarly...
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If English becomes the only linguistic currency, the global academy will be debased, argues Toby Miller
English cannot be the only acceptable language of scholarship, says Toby Miller. It’s arrogant, impractical and anti-intellectual
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Polyglots required if we want a place in the global academy
English cannot be the only acceptable language of scholarship, says Toby Miller. It’s arrogant, impractical and anti-intellectual
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Vanguard force
The Republic of Korea’s finest aims to foster the creativity needed to tackle global concerns, says Yeon-Cheon Oh
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It's another world
Kevin Fong boldly takes science to pupils in post-Thatcher, post-Spock galaxies
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Time and motion studies
Not only do medieval travellers’ tales provide students with a compelling account of history rooted in personal experience, they also promote cross-cultural understanding in the present day, argues...
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The Sea Inside, by Philip Hoare
Jules Pretty explores the oceans that haunt our imaginations
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Grant winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Technology Assessment ProgrammeAward winner: Joseph DiasInstitution: University Hospitals of Leicester NHS TrustValue: ?2,284,684Scaphoid waist internal...