Summits and events news

 Who’s coming and what’s on the agenda for the 2018 World Academic Summit in Singapore  

President of Canada’s York University warns against binary divide between regional and global universities

Coming to you from a log flume in Florida, the team discusses highlights from the THE Young Universities Summit. Buckle your safety belt

Newer, urban universities can have impact beyond more established names, USF leaders argue

Event hears rallying cry for liberal education in the face of ‘false dichotomy’ between learning and jobs

President shares story of institution’s path out of the ‘abyss’

Bold by nature, young institutions are tailor-made for ambitious projects such as the EU’s plan to create disruptive ‘super-networks’, says Anthony Forster

The event will host the launch of the 2018 Times Higher Education Young University Rankings

Academics from North and South Korea are exploring how reunification could work, says Incheon National University president

THE Emerging Economies Summit hears senior university leader call for reform to address nation’s graduate employment crisis

China’s ‘educational inequality’ revealed as country’s lower-ranked universities fall further behind

World Bank consultant says India’s decision to relax state control over curricula at some universities is model

The event will host the launch of the 2018 Times Higher Education Emerging Economies University Rankings

Hear the Times Higher Education team discusses the highlights from the THE MENA Universities Summit 2018 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 

Head of Koç University says international researchers are applying to institution despite political landscape

University of Waterloo president says modern universities must combine research and creativity 

Middle Eastern country has the resources to ‘invest appropriately’ in universities, says UCL head

Internationalisation expert says universities should only proceed with new collaborations if there is backing from scholars 

No better place than city state for higher education's new era, says Nanyang Technological University president

Hear the Times Higher Education team and university leaders talk about the hot topics discussed at the 2018 Asia Universities Summit

League table may include metrics on university spin-off companies and research publications co-authored with industry

‘Students who would have gone abroad for their studies are already staying back in India and joining us,’ says vice-chancellor

Alliances between institutions to become increasingly important, says Sheffield vice-chancellor

Imperial College London president predicts that higher education institutions will follow global corporations in screening applicants using AI-based algorithms

Ability to commercialise research is key to rebuilding war-torn countries such as Sri Lanka, but businesses must pledge support, say sector leaders

Leaders of top universities acknowledge that balance of power in higher education is moving eastwards

Asian universities in particular are embracing a technological future, but they should bear in mind the words of two wise Americans, says Alice Gast

Ana Mari Cauce says collaborations allow universities to be ‘less solely dependent’ on the federal administration

Leaders of some of the world’s top universities will speak at flagship THE event in Singapore

Video and podcast coverage of the 2018 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum

THE data analysis in partnership with Elsevier highlights economic impact of world’s leading institutions 

Simon Baker discovers what the World Economic Forum’s ‘community’ of universities – the Global University Leaders Forum (GULF) – can teach us about industry-academia collaboration and innovation with economic impact

Find out what you can expect at the upcoming 2018 Asia Universities Summit in Shenzhen, China

Times Higher Education’s third summit in the region will reveal the best universities in the Arab world 

Ahead of our Asia Universities Summit, Sir Keith Burnett looks into the future for UK higher education and sees the growing importance of China 

Times Higher Education’s first summit in mainland China will host launch of 2018 Asia University Rankings

In-depth chat with the former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley

Scientific endeavour has for centuries been driven on by both competitive and collaborative spirit, and the rankings can boost both, says Phil Baty

What will European and global research collaboration look like post-Brexit?

Speakers at the 2017 World Academic Summit discuss how world-class universities are embracing social inclusivity

Panel discussion on the importance of internationalisation featuring the leaders of some of the world's most prestigious universities

Francis Crick Institute director Sir Paul Nurse speaks at the 2017 Times Higher Education World Academic Summit

Panel debate from the 2017 THE World Academic Summit

UMBC president calls for shift in institutional culture at Times Higher Education forum

Peter Agre, Ed Byrne and Nicholas Dirks speak to Times Higher Education at the 2017 World Academic Summit in London

Eric Mazur, father of the ‘flipped classroom’, says rethinking assessment is the next frontier

Iconic Californian institution’s viability as a state university called into question by fall in public support and growing political intrusion, says ex-chancellor

US physician also tells summit that, while governments change, ‘science goes on’

The THE team select their highlights from the 2017 World Academic Summit

Improvement districts and policy innovation via research among international examples of civic missions, summit hears

Times Higher Education’s flagship event will return to the Asian city state for its fifth edition

Universities face new diversity challenge as middle-class parents push to secure places for children at top institutions, says former University of Warwick boss

UCL head warns that decision to leave European Union ‘affecting our ability to recruit and retain the very best’

‘Artificial barriers’ such as Brexit ‘should be resisted‘, Nobel laureate tells event hosted by King’s College London

Ahead of the 2018 World Academic Summit, speaker Nicolas Pejout looks at entrepreneurialism in universities

Andrew Hamilton suggests lure of New York will help it to ride out political storms

Louise Richardson says it is ‘completely mendacious’ to suggest higher tuition fees have driven inflation in executive pay

Julie Devonshire calls on universities to help students to bridge the gap between entrepreneurial aspiration and action

Peter Mathieson is a big believer in the merits of globalisation, and wants universities to instil this belief in their students

All the latest programme news and analysis ahead of the 2017 THE World Academic Summit, hosted by King's College London