UK is standing strong, not clinging on 1
The latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings based on new methodology have attracted much attention since being published last week.Regrettably, some of the headlines and...
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UK is standing strong, not clinging on 2
The article comparing aggregate points in the THE World University Rankings raised some interesting points. However, this is only a starting point. What we really need is to recalculate the figures...
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UK is standing strong, not clinging on 3
You point out that the US dominates the THE World University Rankings and that the UK is in second place. While the effects of spending on higher education as a proportion of GDP are discussed, there...
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UK is standing strong, not clinging on 4
"It hath been finished" and now? In essence, THE's list of top institutions does not reveal anything excitingly new. We will all agree that these "top 200" are very good universities and that they...
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UK is standing strong, not clinging on 5
As with every time new "world rankings" are published, I find myself scratching my head.Am I missing something? Card-carrying professional scientist that I am, it still completely eludes me how...
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Not a mixed blessing
You confidently assert that the Catholic University of Ireland - which only later became University College Dublin - of which Cardinal Newman was appointed first rector by Pope Pius IX and Archbishop...
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Needle point
Judith Farquhar berates me for not being an expert on Chinese medicine (Letters, 9 September), but she is a professor of anthropology. I can find only one publication by her in PubMed, a digital...
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Speaking our language
I write in response to David Head's letter (9 September) regarding cuts in the modern languages department at Swansea University. As the education officer at Swansea Students' Union, I will be on the...
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STEM is not a special case
It is a pity that contributors from various scientific societies in the letter to THE (9 September) chose to distort my research on the relationship between economic growth and participation in...
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Franz Schurmann, 1926-2010
An academic expert on China and global politics who was also a pioneering journalist has died.Franz Schurmann, the son of a German mother and a Slovenian father, was born in New York on 21 June 1926...
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Brand-new exciting rankings!
Yes, all of us at The Poppletonian are delighted to announce the publication of the brand-new, completely revised, dramatically improved, extraordinarily more sensitive higher education rankings for...
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Charm offensive
Tim Birkhead on universities' courtship of their next cohort of students
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Don't let views cloud scientific integrity
Global ethics guidelines set out researchers’ duties to be clear and above board, writes Paul Jump
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From where I sit - Logos do not deliver popularity
I bumped into a colleague the other day who expressed her relief at the outcome of the Australian election. The result had hung in the balance for two weeks and could have gone either way before...
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