New breed revs up with globalisation...
... but teaching institutions and those in poor nations could be left behind. John Morgan reports
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Collaboration may not measure up in competitive 'alpha-male' rankings
Conference considers the pros and cons of world university league tables, writes John Morgan
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China aims to increase foreign cooperation
China's emerging new education policy will aim to produce employable graduates with "international perspectives" by stepping up cooperation with foreign universities.Tian Xiaogang, minister...
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East v West and other conference sessions
Is internationalisation a Western construct?Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, the vice-chancellor of University Sains Malaysia, argued that if internationalisation really was solely about the exchange of...
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Daytime TV: Degrees of freedom
Feminists may complain about the objectification of women, says Gary Day, but they haven't been to Kabul
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Field rankings for Spain
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 1999-December 2009
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He's in the money!
Yes, it's hippity-hop-hurrah for this year's Easter bunny - our very own vice-chancellor, seen here celebrating his record-breaking third place in the newly published league table of vice-chancellors...
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Jumping through hoops
Alan Ryan on the US academy's annual lotteries, both scholarly and athletic
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Research intelligence: Now what have we here?
The police want more research into fighting crime to reach frontline officers and practices. Zoë Corbyn reports
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Off piste: Persistence pays...
...or, why cars have speedometers. 'Persistent violator' Lou Marinoff on nirvana in the fast lane, governmental highway robbery and the dazzlingly effective absent-minded-professor defence
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Leader: Like pay, the stakes are rising
The importance of balancing reward and responsibility is highlighted by the sums paid out when things go wrong at the top
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From where I sit: Ant music from a lost tribe
In early March, the day before the annual meeting of the National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee, three CPPCC representatives paid a visit to Tangjialing, a...
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Bernard Gay, 1921-2010
A painter who helped to steer the major transformations of post-war British arts education has died.Bernard Gay was born in Exmouth on 11 April 1921 and left school at the age of 14 to join the...
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Admin 'elementals' are a distinct breed 1
Your editorial was right to emphasise the huge amount of support that academics receive from departmental and university administrative teams ("Accidental, but also elemental", 25 March). All British...