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World shut your mouth: It’s the 2018 QS ranking
It's QS World University Rankings time, and UK universities have taken a bit a battering this year.
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Celebrating and supporting academics (in the park)
Academician parks are a new innovation from China, something to support coming to the UK perhaps?
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The post-Brexit lessons from Switzerland for UK HE and science
After years of turbulence in Switzerland, the country's relationship with EU research and mobility programmes outside the EU might point the way for the UK post-Brexit.
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Very Meta: Ranking Higher Ed Systems
The latest U21 systems ranking Now an annual event, we have the Universitas 21 league table, the 2017 Ranking of National Higher Education Systems, which is intended to give an overview and ranking of higher education systems across the world. This is the sixth such report and now has some additional features: The Ranking now also... read more
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Rich pickings in China’s wealth rankings
There are more billionaires in China than anywhere else. Unsurprisingly, Chinese universities are now ranked by how many they produce.
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Why students should be included in net migration figures
With the debate over international students front and centre of the HE Bill's endgame in Parliament, Ant Bagshaw argues that the political debate over the issue has too often missed the nuance of the policy.
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Making waves for academic credit
Swimming and fitness tests are on their way out of US universities, but appear to be on the way up in China.
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Another vital university ranking: Ancient is still best
In line with all of the best rankings practice, we've run the numbers again on the '20 over 500' rankings. The results are an eye opener.
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We need to talk about IELTS, and the case for testing English ‘in-subject’
Is the current system of English language testing sufficient preparation for non-native speakers to study English-medium degrees? Nick Pilcher and Kendall Richards present their most recent research suggesting a new way forward.
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A branch campus is for life, not just for Brexit
Branch campuses are being mooted as the cure to many universities' Brexit ills. But making it work will require effort and investment for many years.
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