A Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies was launched April 7 at Oxford University, paving the way for expanded academic cooperation between Taiwan and the U.K., according to Taipei City-based National Central Library.
Jointly unveiled by NCL Director-General Tseng Shu-hsien and Catriona Cannon, assistant librarian of Oxford Bodleian Libraries, the facility is the 14th of its kind worldwide and the second in the U.K. following the first set up in 2012 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Four days before, the first TRCC in France was inaugurated at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, the first institution to offer Taiwan language courses in Europe. The NCL also concluded a joint cataloguing pact April 2 with the Lyon Public Library, the largest such facility in the country. More...

By Yoon Min-sik. The Education Ministry on Thursday announced the top-ranking local universities with respect to their compatibility with the corporate sector. The list was released as part of the government’s efforts to establish a closer link between higher education and businesses.
Inha University was picked as the most notable school, garnering “excellent” ratings in all but the biomedical equipment category. It was the only recipient of the top rank in the energy category. More...

By Paul Greatrix. Yet another exciting new league table.

The Ranking of Rankings

So there you have it. The ultimate ranking of rankings. More...

By Paul Greatrix. EUA has published an exciting new report on the first experiences of U-Multirank of some of its member institutions. U-Multirank, as I’ve noted here before, is the European Commission commissioned (at significant expense) non-ranking ranking of universities. More...

By Paul Greatrix. A gold rush?  Far from it.
Inside Higher Ed recently ran a piece on the growth of branch campuses detailing a presentation by Anna Kosmützky, a sociologist at the University of Kassel.
In the presentation Kosmützky draws on the most recent OBHE data (now several years out of date) on the number of branch campuses and focuses strongly on the Dubai International Academic City model which, although it includes many participating universities, really isn’t quite a full and discrete branch campus as many would define it. More...

By Emily Lupton. Today the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published its long-awaited consultation on support for postgraduate study. More...