Search

168,342 results
Page 3465 of 168316 results

  1. Franz Schurmann, 1926-2010

    An academic expert on China and global politics who was also a pioneering journalist has died.Franz Schurmann, the son of a German mother and a Slovenian father, was born in New York on 21 June 1926...

    #People

  3. The dogma delusion

    The notion of a 'war' between science and religion is a media-friendly but profoundly inaccurate model for scholars' many-hued and nuanced views of God, faith and doubt. Matthew Reisz reports

    #Features

  5. Trouble with numbers

    Mass higher education has brought social mobility to millions worldwide, but as access expands and academia is stretched to breaking point, standards are in steady decline, writes Philip Altbach

    #Features

  6. UK is standing strong, not clinging on 1

    The latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings based on new methodology have attracted much attention since being published last week.Regrettably, some of the headlines and...

    #Letters

  7. UK is standing strong, not clinging on 2

    The article comparing aggregate points in the THE World University Rankings raised some interesting points. However, this is only a starting point. What we really need is to recalculate the figures...

    #Letters

  8. UK is standing strong, not clinging on 3

    You point out that the US dominates the THE World University Rankings and that the UK is in second place. While the effects of spending on higher education as a proportion of GDP are discussed, there...

    #Letters

  9. UK is standing strong, not clinging on 4

    "It hath been finished" and now? In essence, THE's list of top institutions does not reveal anything excitingly new. We will all agree that these "top 200" are very good universities and that they...

    #Letters

  10. UK is standing strong, not clinging on 5

    As with every time new "world rankings" are published, I find myself scratching my head.Am I missing something? Card-carrying professional scientist that I am, it still completely eludes me how...

    #Letters

  11. Not a mixed blessing

    You confidently assert that the Catholic University of Ireland - which only later became University College Dublin - of which Cardinal Newman was appointed first rector by Pope Pius IX and Archbishop...

    #Letters

  12. Needle point

    Judith Farquhar berates me for not being an expert on Chinese medicine (Letters, 9 September), but she is a professor of anthropology. I can find only one publication by her in PubMed, a digital...

    #Letters

  13. Speaking our language

    I write in response to David Head's letter (9 September) regarding cuts in the modern languages department at Swansea University. As the education officer at Swansea Students' Union, I will be on the...

    #Letters

  14. STEM is not a special case

    It is a pity that contributors from various scientific societies in the letter to THE (9 September) chose to distort my research on the relationship between economic growth and participation in...

    #Letters

  15. 23 September 2010

    Spiritual accommodation - Is there a place for the faithful in the academy?