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NSF has a handy 24-page report [ pdf ] tons of interesting info on PhD recipients from US universities; published in March 2018, the report...

Anubhuti Vishnoi in The Economic Times : Centre to fund 10 institutes for next 3-4 years to help them find a place among top 100 on global a...

R. Ramachandran has an update on the Bimal Roy affair at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata -- A twist in the ISI tale . Arunabha Ba...

In her WaPo review of a couple of books on US higher education, the president of the University of California system starts with a big spl...

At the lunch table the other day, the Visa Venkateswara   posts came up for discussion, and it occurred to us that, given her name, Goddes...

Susannah Locke in Vox.com : 15 ways to tell if that science news story is hogwash The excellent chart ... offers " A Rough Guide to S...

A great infographic on migration patterns of international students . Duncan Watts at BuzzFeed Books : Should you go to grad school? ...

Ah, the possibilities of student exchange [This is six months late, but I'm struck by the timelessness of this "news"]: A s...

Pushpa Bhargava in The Hindu : Scientists without a Scientific Temper . Jeffrey Mervis in Science Insider : Data check: Why do Chinese and ...

This month saw two significant events in higher ed elsewhere. The first was in the US, where the Department of Education released a "d...

Ranking of universities in the US has thrown up several cases of fraudulent reporting by places like George Washington and Claremont McKenna...

An interesting article on how Germany views Study Abroad aspects of college education: Sending half of Germany’s university students abroa...

Samanth Subramanian in The New Yorker : India's Frugal Mission to Mars (November 2013) and Why India Went to Mars (25 September 2014)....

Prof. Peter N. Stearns, the soon-to-be-ex Provost of George Mason University, has what I think is one of the best responses to the ranking e...

A sobering way of examining university ranking exercises is to put a price on the goal of getting into the Top-20 (or Top whatever) in a cer...

D.D. Guttenplan in NYTimes : Re-evaluating the college ranking game . So who will rank the rankings? That was the inescapable question whe...

A surprising finding reported by CHE [based on results of a survey ( pdf ) by the Council of Grad Schools ]. The reasons for this year...

Infographic: Number of Researchers per million inhabitants by Country . Philip Guo: Silent Technical Privilege . "As a novice computer...

Bloomberg's Oliver Staley has an excellent story focusing on a particular method to get ahead in global university league tables: mergi...

... In 2007, the U.S. State Department issued roughly 40,000 F-1 student visas to residents of mainland China. (Visa numbers may not corresp...