Some advice on how to become a world-class university

By Richard Holmes. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has declared that Kim Il-sung University in Pyongyang must become a world-class institution. No doubt there will be chuckles at Oxford, Anglia Ruskin University, the University of Iceland and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, but it could be surprisingly easy if being world class means getting a high place in the rankings. Read more...