Book of the week: Silent Summer
Jules Pretty looks at the changing face of our ecosystems, warts and all
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US fights to take back the power in the overseas market
Universities use cash, partnerships and recruiters to make up lost ground. Jon Marcus reports
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Little Britain must expand
If the academy is to survive, it needs domestic support to take the offensive internationally, argues Anthony Seldon
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The market charge
Did necessity or ideology drive thinking behind Browne and the CSR, and will unleashing student/consumer demand improve or imperil the sector? Simon Baker investigates
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Tories promise universities A-level oversight
Gove says move will prevent devaluation of qualification. Melanie Newman writes
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Published this week
ARTS AND DESIGN- The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant-Garde between Radical Art and Radical ChicBy Mark Silverberg, associate professor of American literature, Cape Breton University, Canada....
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBusiness and managementl Business Practices in Southeast Asia: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Theravada Buddhist CountriesBy Scott A. Hipsher, professor of business, Anaheim...
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Appointments
University of Nottingham, MalaysiaStephen DoughtyStephen Doughty, new vice-provost (teaching and learning) at the University of Nottingham's Malaysia campus, has no regrets about leaving Britain for...
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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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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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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Searching for cash overseas
By Scott Jaschik for Insidehighered
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The most-cited nations
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its National Science Indicators, 2005-09
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News in brief
Widening participationForty-five per cent and countingThe government has edged closer towards its 50 per cent target for participation in higher education. Statistics published last week show that in...
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Let's wave the flag for a globalised academy that will benefit all
Knowledge is a public good, and the growing strength of universities in China and elsewhere need not harm the West, says Ben Wildavsky