The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol, by Robert Dudley
Tiffany Taylor on a thought-provoking exploration of alcoholism from an evolutionary perspective
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Rivalry hits Oz market in Asia
The lack of a coherent strategy to market Australian education institutions in Asia is putting a Aus$3 billion-a-year (Pounds 1.2 million) export industry at risk, according federal government...
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Immigration policy makes students 鈥榝eel less welcome鈥
The coalition鈥檚 aim to reduce net migration to the 鈥渢ens of thousands鈥 by 2015 makes more than half of international students in the UK feel less welcome, according to a new survey.
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Tony Abbott win leads to humanities funding fears
Humanities and social sciences in Australia could lose A$100 million (拢60 million) in funding following a change in government, it is feared.聽
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Association of Commonwealth Universities: 100 not out
Book celebrates centenary of the first global higher education network
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Iran to host Europe-Asia e-learning workshop
Brussels, 20 June 2002 An international workshop on e-learning platforms between Europe and Asia will take place in Teheran, the Republic of Iran, from October 29 to 31 2002. The EU aims to boost the...
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Fred Deakin of Lemon Jelly joins University of the Arts London
Who got that job? Recording artist takes up chair in interactive design. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments
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Mike Morwood, 1950-2013
An archaeologist who discovered the bones of a 鈥渉obbit鈥 in Indonesia, which may represent a completely new species of early human, has died
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Moocs are a 鈥榙istraction鈥, warns sector expert
Massive open online courses could prove a distraction to universities and cost them money, according to a consultancy that advises governments, investors and institutions on higher education issues.
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To cut a long story short
The new MMU Novella Award will champion a form that continues to defy definition but which, says Robert Graham, prose fiction writers love
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News in brief - 5 December 2013
AustraliaPlea to cut bureaucracyThe main lobbying group for universities in Australia has told the federal government鈥檚 new commission into public spending that some projects brought in under Labor...
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University of the buffer zone
The story of an unlikely branch campus in Cyprus and higher education on a divided island
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Quality standards can suffer in overseas export
Examining collaborative provision in an Asian partnership left John聽Buglear doubting the fitness of such ventures
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British historian says we should 鈥榣ook beyond Europe and America鈥
Lecturer says profession should widen its global outlook
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Academic Ranking of World Universities 2013 released
Eastern institutions slow to make inroads into Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities table