News in brief - 14 August 2014
Source: AlamyGaza conflictNUS supports boycott of IsraelThe National Union of Students has voted to support a boycott of Israel. The union’s national executive council voted on 4 August, during the...
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Clearing: bulk of applicants are older
Students who go straight to clearing in the search for a university place are more likely to be aged over 21, male, from England, and come from disadvantaged backgrounds than those using the standard...
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Refer-a-friend schemes: wise or desperate?
Glyndwr University offers £200 to entice new students with US-style marketing technique
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University College London silent on fate of convicted professor
Future of Gennadij Raivich, a neuroscientist with a sideline as a private sperm donor, uncertain after conviction for sexual assault
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MP criticises treatment of Bedfordshire during overseas student recruitment inquiry
Sector leaders alarmed at ‘inappropriate’ naming of university while Home Office visa audit was ongoing
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Newcastle University relaunches physics degree as student demand increases
Surge in interest in STEM subjects prompts reopening of course from 2015
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Campus close-up: London College of Fashion
From female students in Lebanon to women in prison, the institution is reaching new audiences through its outreach activities
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Funding drought to hit rural Australia worst, mission group leader warns
The chief of the Regional Universities Network on the impact of the Coalition’s planned reforms
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Amity University seeks site in London for 5,000-student campus
Indian private university searches for site as it signals an interest in partnerships with UK institutions
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Wikimania: student medics get credit for webside manner
Conference hears from academics about the benefits of building Wikipedia into higher education teaching and learning
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The price of life in an academic Eden
Human serpents are lurking in the undergrowth at every university, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide, by Alon Confino
An analysis of anti-Semitic ideology illuminates a number of its contradictions, says Roger Morgan
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School for Cool: The Academic Jazz Program and the Paradox of Institutionalized Creativity, by Eitan Y. Wilf
Does formal teaching of jazz contradict the improvisation that is at its core? Trevor Herbert examines the evidence
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Why Can’t They Get Along? A Conversation between a Muslim, a Jew and a Christian, by Dawoud El-Alami, Dan Cohn-Sherbok and George D. Chryssides
Three different religious standpoints are not merely distinct but incompatible, says Robert A. Segal