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ChinaUS joint venture gets green lightThe Chinese government has formally approved the establishment of a new institution created jointly by a US and a Chinese university. Duke Kunshan University, a...
ChinaUS joint venture gets green lightThe Chinese government has formally approved the establishment of a new institution created jointly by a US and a Chinese university. Duke Kunshan University, a...
Artistic authorityA university leader’s art collection was put on public display this week. The exhibition, titled Colour and Modernity, features prints, oil paintings and lithographs collected by...
Learn from Met record or get stuck on repeatHow well acquainted is Michael Shattock with London Metropolitan University? (“‘The best board I ever sat on’”, 30 May.) In drawing parallels between HBOS...
The use of reputation surveys in university rankings is controversial. Many do not like the combination of subjective information with objective data and there are concerns that reputation surveys...
How long before search committees stop assuming that the right man for the top university job is a man?
PhDs are valuable political capital in Germany, Eastern Europe and beyond, but the currency has been devalued by a string of high-profile plagiarism cases at the very heart of government. Paul Jump...
Germany and Eastern Europe rocked by string of high-profile cases within their governments. Paul Jump reports
University of New South WalesMichelle SimmonsA quantum computation expert has been honoured as New South Wales' Scientist of the Year at the NSW Government's Science and Engineering Awards 2011....
The egalitarian bent of Dutch society has been reflected in its higher education sector - until now. Jack Grove discovers that government and global forces are spurring some institutions to try to...
The Golden State's mix of public planning, spin-off innovation and private excellence has made it one of the global academy's powerhouses. But funding cuts threaten the University of California's pre...