Sabbatical payout pushes Oxford spending on v-cs past £1 million
Former leader Dame Louise Richardson left with equivalent of year’s pay on top of her usual salary, accounts reveal
Former leader Dame Louise Richardson left with equivalent of year’s pay on top of her usual salary, accounts reveal
International scholars in arts, humanities and social sciences are recognising universities in China, sometimes more than their local academics
Everything you need to know about Times Higher Education’s global portfolio of university rankings
Cost-of-living crisis has not spawned improvements in university food options, Australian analysis finds
One of the things that I have been keen to do as editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings is to engage as much as possible with our harshest critics.
More than two months ago, we published the first draft of our planned new methodology for the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.The draft, detailing how we will draw together 13...
We can expect some big-name institutions to take a hit in the new World University Rankings.Why? Because the rankings we will publish this autumn will be based less on subjective opinion and more on...
We have had to make some extraordinarily difficult decisions this week - on which institutions to exclude from our 2010 World University Rankings.In the autumn, we will publish our annual list of the...
An epic effort by our world university rankings data supplier, Thomson Reuters, to collect information from hundreds of universities around the world concluded successfully last week.The rankings...
I was disturbed by an email that dropped into my in-box late last month.No, it was not another offer of cheap Viagra, or an announcement that I had won an overseas lottery. It was more unsettling...
So now we get to the hard part.I have spent months discussing the problems of our previous university ranking system: a weak response rate to the reputational survey, the failure to normalise...
Some scholars in the arts and humanities have expressed concern - to put it mildly - that the citation data used in the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings will fail to measure the...
How can we trust universities to give us accurate data and stop them manipulating their figures to boost their standing in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings?This is a common...
Global university rankings "are simply not going to go away".
Last week, under the shimmering chandeliers of the 257-year-old Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in Stockholm, a very modern sort of conversation took place.