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IndiaA date with the AmericansThe US and India will hold a higher education summit next year as the two nations strengthen links. The three-day summit, to be held in Mumbai in July, was announced by...
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Shared vision results only in difference and indifference
Academic claims that Bologna has become a 'mission impossible'. Hannah Fearn reports
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Law clinics that go beyond theory face attacks
Law students in the US are finding their efforts to get hands-on experience stifled by the very sector they are trying to learn from, according to a report.Robert R. Kuehn, professor of law at...
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Grant Winners
EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCILStarting Grant competitionAlmost €580 million (£491 million) has been awarded by the ERC to more than 400 winners in its third Starting Grant competition. The awards, which...
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Blogconfidential: How to destroy another human being
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: How to destroy another human being
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Appointments
Syracuse UniversityMike WrightAn expert in entrepreneurial theory, who claims Bob Dylan is the world's greatest "serial entrepreneur", has been awarded a distinguished fellowship by a US university....
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The heart of good business
The arts inject ethics and creativity into the MBA curriculum, argues Stefano Harney; their demise would be disastrous
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18 November 2010
Reboot the revolution - Online lecturers, the new barbarians at the gate, are academia’s avant-garde
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Research and student places protected as Scots announce cuts
Funding for Scottish higher education is to be cut, but university places and research cash will be maintained at their current levels.
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Inside Higher Ed: Cheating and the generational divide
By Dan Berrett, for Inside Higher Ed
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Tara Brabazon: History as nostalgia, or one damned thing after another
Jerome de Groot’s Consuming History offers a forensic examination of modern culture’s sentimental, simplistic repackaging of the past. Tara Brabazon admires its corrective qualities
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‘Stupid, ignorant, foolish’: peers express dismay at potential loss of scientific expertise in merged BIS post
Plans to change the way the science and research community is represented in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills could have a damaging effect on the sector’s relationship with...
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Cable: elite held gun to our heads over fees
Vince Cable has claimed that the government effectively was held to ransom on tuition fees, as a group of elite universities would have “gone private” if the cap had not been raised.
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Research reputation not priority for potential students
Students choose their university on the quality of its teaching and social life, not its research standing.
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Bristol head named as next UUK chief
Eric Thomas, the University of Bristol’s vice-chancellor, will be the next president of Universities UK, it has been announced.