By Yang Meiping. THERE has been an increase in the number of overseas students enrolling for degree courses in Shanghai universities, educational authorities said yesterday. And much of it has to do with the universities’ English language curriculums. Read more...
By Alanna Schubach. The $1.5 trillion spending measure that just passed in Congress is particularly good news for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which will see its budget increase by $2 billion, or 6 percent, the largest increase in over a decade. In recent years, the agency, and the research universities across the country that receive significant funding from it, have struggled with funding cuts and a failure to keep up with inflation that has hindered their work. Read more...
By Paul Sheehan. Some films are impossible to avoid, even if you don't want to see them. One such film is The Revenant, the new number one at the box office. It needed to be number one. Its marketing campaign has been a global epic. Read more...
By Ellie Bothwell. ‘Strategic entrepreneurs’ among staff can develop successful cross-border partnerships, argues Northumbria lecturer. More...
By Matthew Reisz. The Kurdistan regional government in Iraq is streamlining its higher education system – and still looking for far more help from British universities. More...
By Matthew Reisz. There is no such thing as an average person. In the late 1940s, the United States Air Force couldn’t understand why pilots found it so physically difficult to keep control of their planes. More...
By Matthew Reisz. Proposals to measure teaching excellence present major challenges for universities educating students for the creative industries, says Nigel Carrington. More...
By Matthew Reisz. Novelists can write about sex in ways that are exciting or disturbing, comic or nostalgic, lyrical or grotesque. None of these options is really open to academics. And just as there is a good deal of academic writing about food, sport or rock ’n’ roll, for example, that manages to drain all the fun and passion out of these topics, the same is certainly true of sex. Fortunately, there are also many academics who manage to be serious and illuminating about sex without being dull. More...
By Matthew Reisz. A new academic book challenges much of the received wisdom about the nature and development of human sexuality. More...
By David Matthews. China, fostering links with future leaders through its universities, is now playing the same game as Western nations, researcher says. More...
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