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Welsh partners take global aim
Public-private collaboration to offer pre-university courses to overseas students. Olga Wojtas reports
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Overseas briefing
United StatesTutor reinstated after reprimandA tutor who was fired for enrolling in his own classes at a college in Alabama is to be reinstated after an arbitrator's ruling. Henry Douglas, who...
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Overseas briefing
South KoreaSeoul searching for studentsThe number of foreign students at South Korea's universities will rise by 100,000 if government targets are hit. The Ministry of Education, Science and...
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Geography is not what it seems
Timothy Darvill looks at how cultural change over 10,000 years has altered the face of Europe
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US losing edge in innovation league
Competitiveness index reveals 'new world order' as Europe and Asia gain. Hannah Fearn reports
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Published This Week
(J) = Review forthcomingANTHROPOLOGY- Unstrange Minds: A Father Remaps the World of AutismBy Roy Richard Grinker, professor of anthropology, international affairs, and human sciences at the George...
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Unique Melbourne
To suggest that the University of Melbourne follows the Bologna model ("Monash to focus overseas", October ) is to misunderstand developments here. Our Melbourne model, which includes a suite of high...
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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCESWitness to ExtinctionBy Samuel Turvey, research fellow, Institute of Zoology, University of CambridgeOxford University Press, ?16.99ISBN 9780199549474In relating the plight of the...
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Flu fighter
Devastating pandemics remain a threat to public health. Sir Gordon Duff heads the vigilant scientists who protect us.
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The tools of power
In restoring oratory and rhetoric to a central role in public life, Barack Obama has shown how words and bearing can touch lives and change minds. Tom Palaima traces his lineage from Cato to Martin...
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A man and a plan for a better world
Martin Mills finds an idealist at the apocalypse, but asks why one of our Dalai Lamas is missing
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GEOGRAPHY- The Columbia Gazetteer of the WorldEdited by Saul Cohen, specialist in political geography and university professor emeritus at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Columbia...
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ART AND DESIGN- Railways and the Western European CapitalsBy Micheline Nilsen, assistant professor of art history, University of Indiana. Palgrave Macmillan, ?45.00. ISBN 9780230607736Nilsen looks at...
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILAward winner: Malcolm ValeInstitution: University of OxfordValue: ?721,073The Gascon Rolls 1317-1468Award winner: James HegartyInstitution: Cardiff UniversityValue...