Books interview: Shane Hamilton
The lecturer in international business and strategy and author of Supermarket USA on big books, the ‘Cold War Farms Race’ and jazzed-up propaganda battles
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THE Podcast: the competition for global talent
University leaders from Russia and India and an executive from Microsoft discuss how to attract and retain top-tier academics
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Finding fault in Australia’s latest data dump
The Australian government has released three major data sets unusually back-to-back and full of mistakes, leading John Ross to ask: why so much, why so fast and why so erroneous?
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Australian universities fear ‘grand challenges’ research focus
Response to row over vetoing of humanities grants could?result in curiosity-driven scholarship being pushed out
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Student enthusiasm ‘key to new university-industry ventures’
Making innovation zones work goes beyond financial support and facilities, summit hears
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Lifelong learning ‘central’ to Labour’s higher education plan
Shadow minister warns UK risks being overtaken by rivals in North America and Asia if sectors don’t work more closely together
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Hunkering down: Japan’s higher education sector
Japan’s combined budgetary crunch and demographic squeeze has raised questions about the sustainability of its huge university sector. John Ross visits the country to investigate
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France boosts international student numbers
Increase may reflect efforts to target markets where UK has traditionally been strong
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Which countries’ HE systems are globalising quickest?
Four years of data from THE’s?world rankings show that the UK appears to have stalled on internationalisation compared with some rivals
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Asian university systems rated higher than graduates by firms
Preview data from?upcoming?Global University Employability Ranking?show view is reversed for some European nations
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Europe: A Natural History, by Tim Flannery
Book of the week: the continent’s ecosystems have been shaped and reshaped by alien species, says Tom Cameron
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How China may lead rather than follow in HE
Universities in China are once again the fastest-advancing group in the THE World University Rankings. A closer look at their approaches shows why
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Will Taiwan’s growing diplomatic isolation harm higher education?
Scholar says Western students may be more reluctant to study in Taiwan, but others question China’s influence on overseas student flows?
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‘Bolthole’ demands bolster Chinese enrolments in Australia
Australian fears of official curbing of student visas ‘overblown’, experts say