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United StatesYou booze, you loseThe governing body of a US university has warned its president to curb her drinking or it will sack her. In a recent letter to Susan Martin, Eastern Michigan...
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From Where I Sit - Big Bong theory
Two memoirs by Indian scholars who spent many years at Oxbridge offer salutary insights into life at the ancient universities. Tapan Raychaudhuri, author of The World in Our Time and a professor of...
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As India plays hard to get, overseas suitors lose interest
The government has reluctantly shelved its bill governing foreign education partners, reports Joanna Sugden from New Delhi
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Archives offer adventures in time and cyberspace
Cengage's plans to digitise the 19th century could open up a whole new world, finds Matthew Reisz
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Emerging properties: ignore the Anglo-Saxons and try the developing angle
Universities in Europe have been advised by a World Bank official to look to developing countries for inspiration rather than copying British and US models of higher education.
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Personal becomes political in this hall of mirrors
The V&A’s reflective new exhibition of Middle Eastern photography brings a heterogeneous region into focus, says Shahidha Bari
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United StatesLegal tenderA US university aims to buy a law school from another "local" institution for $25 million (£16 million). Texas A&M University will pay Texas Wesleyan University $20...
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Introducing the Times Higher Education 100 Under 50
Times Higher Education today announces the launch of an exciting new addition to its World University Rankings portfolio.
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Asia rankings: KAIST's presidential address
A Korean institution is helping to build our social, economic and pedagogic future, says Nam Pyo SuhA modern research university deals with diverse issues in education and research to achieve two...
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Asia rankings: passage to Indian improvement
India's sector has expanded massively; now its research capacity must catch up, says Pawan Agarwal The recent growth in Indian higher education has been spectacular. The country's current enrolment...
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Asia rankings: Middle Eastern promise
How do you build a successful research-intensive university? Ahmet Acar offers his cost-benefit analysis.As basic engines of the knowledge economy, universities have been assuming wider...
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Tales of student visa bureaucracy
The visa process can trap students in a costly Kafkaesque limbo. To improve life for foreign scholars, the sector should halt its failed lobbying over policy and focus on publicising the misery...
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Modern Women in China and Japan: Gender, Feminism and Global Modernity between the Wars
This book's title reflects an original and bold move, namely to focus on the location of Katrina Gulliver's subjects (modern women in China and Japan) rather than their national, cultural and/or...
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The Bologna chorus: harmony from two tones of same note
Higher education has room for both high ideals and pragmatism, Matthew Reisz hears in Bologna
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Economy of expression
Christopher Bigsby is as qualified as any chancellor - and less harmful