In August we had the opportunity to meet Sir Alan Fersht, FRS, and Lady Fersht when they visited Kuala Lumpur. Sir Alan is a British chemist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He works on protein folding. Since October 2012, he has been Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

The University of Oxford tops the Times Higher Education Supplement's rankings for the best universities in the UK in 2017. Next in the rankings are Cambridge, Imperial College London, UCL and the London School of Economics. For the full listings, click here.

The Times Higher Education Supplement lists the Best Universities in the US for 2017. In the top 5 are CalTech, Stanford, MIT, Harvard and Princeton. For the full list click here.