The Herald: China syndrome challenges our top universities

t is this that is being reflected in the tables: the universities of the Far East appear to be rising through the ranks largely because they started at a lower base than the more established UK institutions. But this educational change does reflect an economic one: the economies of the Far East have been spending big on university education at a time when the recession-hit West has been looking for cuts. The world economy's tectonic plates are shifting and the relative place of universities is starting to reflect it.

Mein Blog befasst sich in einem umfassenden Sinn mit dem Verhältnis von Wissen, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Ein besonderes Augenmerk richte ich dabei auf die Aktivitäten des Medien- und Dienstleistungskonzern Bertelsmann und der Bertelsmann Stiftung.