Making the European Monetary Union
Kathleen McNamara on the technocracy that created the EMU - and its current malaise
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Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England: Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture
Last year was the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, with extravagant claims made about it being “the most important book written in the English language”. Such a...
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The Rise of China vs the Logic of Strategy
The rise of China has provoked such shock and awe that predictions of the time when the People’s Republic will dominate the world have become commonplace. Sustained strong economic growth, especially...
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Odds and quads
From 1981, the Women's Peace Camp at Greenham Common mounted a sustained non-violent protest against the first cruise missile site in the UK.
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Appointments
Royal Welsh College of Music and DramaSimon JonesThe Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama has appointed Simon Jones acting head of strings. The promotion of Dr Jones, currently head of the college'...
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Shiny happy periodicals
Read all about it: Fred Inglis on the horn-blowing and the hoopla, the cant and the can-do spirit of the glossy world of official university magazines
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India needs foreign aid for 'islands in sea of mediocrity'
New HE minister aims to unblock channels to openness. Joanna Sugden reports from New Delhi
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Personal becomes political in this hall of mirrors
The V&A’s reflective new exhibition of Middle Eastern photography brings a heterogeneous region into focus, says Shahidha Bari
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15 November 2012
V-c spotting - The top decks may be stacked in favour of white, middle-class men, but not all follow suit
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With 'unresponsive' UKBA, walking like an Egyptian may involve exit doors
The Egyptian government may shun the UK as a destination for postgraduate students on state scholarships because of frustrations over visas.
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Inconvenient truths
Alan Ryan asks: how many Sandys will it take for us to change our ways?
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Skyscraper's the limit for furious NYU academics
University plans to expand in Greenwich Village have sparked a grass-roots revolt, finds Ian Wylie
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Alan Harrison, 1944-2012
A successful industrialist who went on to become an academic expert on operations management has died.Alan Harrison was born in Oxfordshire on 25 November 1944 and educated at Abingdon School before...
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THE Scholarly Web
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Campus round-up
Goldsmiths/ExeterPluck of the IrishHistorians have set up a website to highlight Irish involvement in the First World War. The site includes a list of the war dead mentioned on family graves in...