Rankings 09: The winning spirit
Harry Lewis reflects on how Harvard's unique ethos, constructive confusion and unreconciled tensions ensure its continuing success
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Rankings 09: Areas of expertise
Universities in East Asia are showing strength even in the humanities, a subject in which they traditionally have fared poorly
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Rankings 09: Beacons of excellence
UK Universities are highly regarded around the world. They must not allow complacency to set in and endanger their enviable position, says David Lammy
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Rankings 09: Measures matter
Rankings are here to stay - the challenge is to make them more accurate and useful, argue Jamil Salmi and Roberta Malee Bassett
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Overseas briefing
United StatesNo sex please, we're room-matesStudents at Tufts University in Boston have been banned from having sex in undergraduate halls of residence while their room-mates are in. A spokeswoman...
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The sleeping giant is rising to challenge global order
India's increasing productivity may lead to a 'new geography' of research worldwide. Phil Baty reports
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Top countries in space sciences
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 1999 through June 2009
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The week in higher education
He has demonstrated a fondness for luxury in the past - not least on summer holidays in Corfu - but now it has emerged that Lord Mandelson also has very expensive taste in watches. The First...
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UK boosts standing but Asian countries 'snap at our heels'
US dominance slips, UK improves position but China and Korea close the gap, writes Phil Baty
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Conservatives may scrap potential-impact terms
Shadow secretary rejects 'clunky business' of pre-defined research outputs. Melanie Newman writes
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Britons place little impotence on good spelling
The claim that British students are sloppier in their use of English than their international counterparts provoked a lively response from online readers of Times Higher Education.A study by Bernard...
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Publisher drops claim of plagiarism
Academic is thought to have threatened legal action over accusations, writes Zoë Corbyn
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Four in ten top scholars educated privately
Sutton Trust highlights domination of sector and calls for change. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Students' rosy outlook blamed as two thirds shun university careers advice
Hindsight may be a wonderful thing, but for the Class of 2009, more forethought would have stood them in better stead post-graduation, according to new research.The Futuretrack study run by the...
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Scots' fears over banding shake-up
Science and the arts benefit but IT and education miss out in proposed system, writes Hannah Fearn