A very particular set of skills
Phil Baty discovers which institutions excel in which subject areas and finds that the US/UK domination continues. Although the California Institute of Technology leads the World University Rankings...
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Tectonic shifts point to Asia taking on the mantle
Source: Reuters The World University Rankings 2014-2015 continue the trends of US decline and Asian ascent, writes Phil Baty. Leading Asian universities continue their steady progress in this year’s...
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Necessary coupling
The Origin of Language - The Language Connection
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One flew into the fellow's head
What is a sociology researcher to do when a pigeon starts a family under her desk? Sarah Nelson explains. Now here is a conundrum for the silly season. What do you do when a pigeon builds a nest...
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Faith and the flag
Jan Willem Honig discerns the bloody hand of the state rather than the church behind the Bosnian massacres In a 1993 article in the prestigious American journal Foreign Affairs, American political...
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Speed from a standing start
Free from tradition and baggage, a wave of upstarts are challenging their elders. Phil Baty investigates There are many disadvantages to being a young university, says Yongmin Kim, president of the...
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Drilling down into a rich landscape of data
Source: Alamy Phil Baty explains how to use the league tables to extract information specific to your requirements. Thirteen separate performance indicators are carefully balanced to provide the...
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Movers and shakers, slow improvers and unexpected climbers
Source: Alamy Of the BRICS nations, China stands out and Russia shows great potential, but other emerging economies are also gaining in strength. Phil Baty reports. China has reinforced its dominance...
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A renegade New Englander
Lost Puritan
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American graffiti rules
The United States' political and military presence in Asia and the Pacific assumed massive proportions after the second world war. General Douglas MacArthur ruled Japan like a viceroy until he...
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Don's diary
Tuesday. At Heathrow, World's Favourite Airline. The seat number 20C was not an allocation it was merely a request. In the view of the Customer Services rep, I and a dozen others had checked in "late...
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Warwick joins fellowship elite
Oxbridge students have long spoken about the college-based postdoctoral step of the academic ladder in exclusive, knowing terms. It is not a junior research fellowship but a "JRF". Soon, however,...
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Speaking Volumes: The Penguin Pennings
Fred Inglis on Paul Jenning's The Penguin Pennings . In his wonderful essay "Hymns in a man's life" D. H. Lawrence speaks movingly of the great poems which have given shape to his life; but for all...
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The ethical economist
Andrew Robinson and Michael Prest profile Amartya Sen, the economist whose concern for justice stands out in a profession often obsessed with efficiency. With nearly 20 books, innumerable public...
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Brics still finding building blocks
Source: Getty Phil Baty on the patchy performance of the big four developing nations in this year’s rankings The World University Rankings top 200 is unquestionably a rich-world list, dominated by...