ROMping to the bank
Is all this "interactive media" still a solution looking for a problem which merely drains funding resources? David Clark argues for a complete rethink on uses of information technology. At a recent...
Is all this "interactive media" still a solution looking for a problem which merely drains funding resources? David Clark argues for a complete rethink on uses of information technology. At a recent...
Academia is not for the faint-hearted: constructionists are knocked down by deconstructionists, structuralists are challenged by poststructuralists, feminists are attacked by revisionist feminists,...
Scientists can rapidly develop chemical modelling on the Internet. Henry Rzepa and Benjamin Whitaker explain Scientists and mathematicians have extended the written language by developing special...
Annabel Patterson asks that in the often intemperate exchanges over political correctness we should not forget its real achievements. In 1580, Gabriel Harvey, lecturer in rhetoric at Cambridge,...
Michael Burleigh on the reaction of German health professionals and relatives to the murder of their mentally ill by the Nazis. My work on Nazi Germany began with a book on the supine involvement of...
If the Republicans have an answer to Hillary Clinton, it is Lynne Cheney. As chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities during the Bush regime, she stirred up concerns about political...
As the Joint Academic Network's information services burgeon, Derek Law argues that the information must remain free at the point of use. The academic electronic highway JANET and its broadband...
Encyclopaedia of Virology
If the future of book publishing is in peril, humanities academics may turn to the electronic networks. Anita Roy laments the decline of the monograph, below, while Diane Hofkins, right, reports on a...
31 May 2012 The University of York has always been unafraid to go its own way, Laurie Taylor recalls Nowadays I take the compliments showered on the University of York for granted. I no longer need...
Over recent years emerging economies have recognised the importance of higher education. China began investing seriously in its universities in the mid-1990s, and its position in current league...
Abdullah Atalar reveals the secrets of Bilkent's rapid advancement Bilkent University is a private not-for-profit research institution located in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, one of the world’s...
4 October 2012 Ed Byrne recommends international collaboration between institutions to achieve excellence - Australians have taken to the idea like a duck- billed platypus to water Australia takes...
Click here for information on the launch of the 2015-16 World University Rankings, which will be unveiled in October at the THE World Academic Summit in Melbourne. The Times Higher Education World...
The Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2015 will be published online at 21.00 BST on Wednesday 10 June, in time for their official launch on 11 June in Shanghai at the APAC Research...