A visa scheme set up to mitigate the loss of the post-study work route for international students granted just 119 work permits in its first year, Times Higher Education can reveal. The graduate...
Source: Shutterstock During the Olympics I met the daughter of one of the Chinese investors invited to London by the mayor. She had chosen to come to university in the capital over the US so I asked...
The UK is the fastest-growing collaborator for researchers in Brazil’s richest state, data from Fapesp, the São Paulo Research Foundation, have shown. Speaking to Times Higher Education, Carlos...
5 November 2013 The world’s first global ranking of universities in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and other emerging economies will be published on 4 December 2013 The Times Higher...
Every one of the hundreds of universities ranked in Times Higher Education’s portfolio of global university rankings have actively volunteered to share data and join the assessment process...
In celebration of the inaugural Times Higher Education BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings, we will be holding an exclusive and free-to-attend launch event hosted by Koc University, Istanbul on...
Phil Baty welcomes some new faces (and additional context) to the inaugural THE BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings Many of the world’s emerging economies have put the development of world-class...
China leads the pack of developing nations aiming for academic and economic growth. Phil Baty writes China has emerged as the strongest nation in the inaugural Times Higher Education BRICS &...
For most nations, rankings performances do not reflect their economic strength, writes Phil Baty All 22 countries considered for analysis in the Times Higher Education BRICS & Emerging Economies...
Active engagement with the global rankings has spurred KwaZulu-Natal to greater heights, argues M. W. Makgoba The University of KwaZulu-Natal was formed on 1 January 2004 in extraordinary...
Brazil is seeking to build a sector with quality across the board and a select squad of truly world‑class players, says Luiz Cláudio Costa Brazil’s academy has grown massively in recent years....
Krishna Ganesh and L. S. Shashidhara discuss India’s integrated research teaching model As Indian society reinvents itself, a radical transformation is taking place in its academy. The country is...
In the global academic market there is strength in numbers, observes Maxim Khomyakov I often recall David Lodge’s image of our small world as a single campus when I hear talks on internationalisation...
University rankings have never have been more important. As more students cross borders to study, rankings offer an easy way to prioritize a plethora of options Moreover, a burgeoning middle class in...
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...