Worth Reading 4: Rankings influence public perceptions of German universities

Der Ranking-Effekt Zum Einfluss des „Shanghai-Rankings“ auf die medial dargestellte Reputation deutscher Universitäten Tim Hegglin · Mike S....

Worth Reading 3

Matthew David, Fabricating World Class: Global university league tables, status differentiation and myths of global competition accepted for...

Go East Young (and Maybe not so Young) Man and Woman!

Mary Collins, a distinguished immunologist at University College London (UCL), is leaving to take up an academic appointment in Japan . Goin...

THE Adjectival Hyperbole

Times Higher Education (THE) has always had, or tried to have, a good opinion of itself and its rankings. A perennial highlight of the rank...

Why are university bosses paid so much?

Times Higher Education  (THE) has an article by Ellie Bothwell about the earnings of university heads in the USA and the UK. The US data is ...

Not as Elite as They Thought

British higher education is very definitely not a flat system. There is an enormous difference between Oxford or LSE and the University of B...