Art on its own account
John Haldane muses on artist David Tremlett's ability to take on a space and transform it into something living, in a compelling affirmation of the essential domesticity of the creative act
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The New Plagues: Pandemics and Poverty in a Globalized World
Stefan Kaufmann is both lucky and unlucky. His luck is to be a senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, situated close to the Luisenstrasse, where in 1880 Robert...
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Private practice
BPP may have been awarded university college status, but the regulatory system will have to be drastically overhauled if for-profit higher education is to thrive in Britain, says Simon Baker
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UK faces continental threat
Report advises British universities to act or lose international students to European rivals. Hannah Fearn reports
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingEDUCATION- Global Education: Using Technology to Bring the World to Your StudentsBy Laurence Peters, University of MarylandISTE, $31.95ISBN 9781564842589Peters provides an...
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Market grows in strength as states run out of cash
Conference speakers say private solutions needed to cope with demand. Phil Baty reports from Doha
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Foreign fees may founder as 'perfect storm' brews
University heads fear recession, flu and visa rules will stop overseas students. Hannah Fearn writes
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Don't forget to remember
Felipe Fernández-Armesto says we must choose our commemorations wisely
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Excellence in the round
This year our rankings show not only the top institutions but also the strongest countries in higher education, says Martin Ince
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Lancaster University - Gas guzzlers
A £2.5 million research project into how rainforests control the composition and chemistry of the atmosphere is being led by Lancaster University. The three-year venture, funded by the Natural...
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News in brief
Misconduct chargesExam-paper professor suspendedAn investigation at the University of Manchester into a professor accused of failing to rigorously mark exam papers has found that there is a case to...
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Liverpool Hope University - Christianity scholars commune
Scholars from around the world gathered for a conference on Asian and African Christianity at Liverpool Hope University. Twenty academics took part in the event last weekend, among them professor of...
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Tara Brabazon: The world class is not enough
After considering criteria that demand work ‘well above world standard’, Tara Brabazon concludes that an era of interplanetary scholarship must be upon us
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Social sciences round-up
Knowledge-in-Practice in the Caring Professions: Multidisciplinary PerspectivesEditors: Heather D'Cruz, Struan Jacobs and Adrian SchooEdition: FirstPublisher: AshgatePages: 266Price: £60.00 and £19....
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The book of the week: The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
Radhakrishnan Nayar on 'de-Westernisation'