Britain leads in sniffing edge research

There must be some formula that can predict the scientific research that will go viral over the social media or reach the pages of the popul...

Should the UK stay in the EU?

There are 130 universities in the UK and the vice-chancellors of more than 103 of them have signed a letter praising the role of the Europe...

The Ranking Effect

The observer effect in science refers to the changes that a phenomenon undergoes as a result of being observed. Similarly, in the world of u...

Aussies not impressed with THE any more

Back in 2012 The Australian published a list of the most influential figures in Australian higher education. In 14th place was Phil Baty, ...

Diversity Makes You Brighter ... if You're a Latino Stockpicker in Texas or Chinese in Singapore

Nearly everybody, or at least those who run the western mainstream media, agrees that some things are sacred. Unfortunately,  this is not al...

Towards a transparent university ranking system

For the last few years global university rankings have been getting more complicated and more "sophisticated". Data makes it way f...

Worth Reading 5: Another Year, Another Methodology

International Higher Education , published by Boston College, has an article by Ellen Hazelkorn and Andrew Gibson that reviews the recent c...