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Global University SummitLeaders shall speak unto leaders“Universities and economic growth” is the theme of this year’s Global University Summit, which will bring together politicians, business...
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From where I sit - 'Brexit'? It's cold outside
One old-time story of British attitudes to the European Union goes like this. It’s 1955. There is a meeting determining whether to create the European Economic Community. Six continental delegations...
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21 February 2013
Escape from limbo - To defeat the visa bureaucracy, the personal must become political
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THE Scholarly Web - 21 February 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Ronald Dworkin, 1931-2013
The world’s most celebrated philosopher of law, hailed as a “genuine public intellectual”, has died.Ronald Dworkin was born on 11 December 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island. He studied at Harvard...
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United StatesLegal challengeRepresentatives from the US legal profession have called for drastic changes in law education, including more practical training. The proposals come in the wake of...
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Campus round-up: 21 February 2013
A chance to learnAn academic has been honoured for his role in founding a school in Nepal for children with no prior access to education. Kevin Fossey, a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton...
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Local TV stations offer broadcast work to students
University partnerships with broadcasters in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Oxfordshire allows those on journalism courses to hone skills
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Wales gives best value for QR cash, study finds
Welsh universities lead the UK in terms of output quality per pound invested, says report from Learned Society of Wales
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Odds and quads - 21 February 2013
Based in North Easton, Massachusetts from 1803, the Ames Shovel Company flourished during the gold rush era and, by 1879, was producing three-fifths of the world’s shovels.Today, 783 of them,...
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Fergal Keane gives new perspective on war, history and the media
University of Liverpool’s new professorial fellow brings practical experience to academia
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Grant winners - 21 February 2013
European CommissionMarie Curie FellowshipAward winner: Andrew SutherlandInstitution: Aston UniversityValue: £185,026Polymers containing rhenium or molybdenum inorganic clusters for materials and...
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Antarctica: A Biography by David Day
Chris Turney reviews a history of attempts by Antarctic explorers to conquer the southern continent
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Passion and Paranoia by Charlotte Bloch
Oversensitivity is bad news for the debate, argues Joanna Williams
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Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks by Jenny White
Clémence Scalbert-Yucel on a worthy addition to the study of a state in flux