Obama: ‘education is the economic issue of our time’
Barack Obama has called on higher education institutions in the US to “retake the lead” in providing the best education the world has to offer.Speaking at the University of Texas at Austin on 9...
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Towards freedom, and more success
The past 10 years have seen their fair share of ups and downs for higher education in Ireland, but Ferdinand von Prondzynski, outgoing president of Dublin City University, leaves his post with more...
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Inside Higher Ed: Out presidents
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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‘Graduate tax’ could prompt brain drain, union warns
The cost of studying for the “key professions” would soar under proposals for graduate contributions tabled by the business secretary, Vince Cable, the main lecturers’ union claims.The University and...
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Is the Israeli academy facing a McCarthyite era?
Political interference could put freedom of speech in universities at stake, says Matthew Reisz
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Funding announced to lead the way to greener pastures
Eleven higher education institutions have been awarded government funding to conduct research into sustainability and energy use in the sector.The Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Top 25 Asia-Pacific institutions in chemistry
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-April 2010 Asia rankWorld rankInstitution Papers CitationsCitations per paper155 Pohang University of Science and...
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No thinkable alternative
Producing graduates who are critical thinkers requires teachers who can bring scholarship and leadership to the academy. It is vital that we find them, says Paul Ramsden
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Credit where it's overdue
It is a familiar lament: teaching excellence is doomed never to be rewarded as handsomely as research success - if at all. But some institutions are determined to tackle the pedagogical deficit....
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The Play's the thing
Be it on the pitch or on the stage, performance is king and the passion it arouses is key to why Dominic Shellard loves the theatre - and football
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Bound for glory
Many academics feel anxious about approaching and working with a publisher. Katharine Reeve, who has been on both sides of the fence, dispels myths about the publishing process and offers advice on...
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Book of the Week - Ireland: A History
Don MacRaild salutes a witty, readable and epic journey through the many-hued past of the Emerald Isle
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Stranger From Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness
Robert Eaglestone finds little narrative fire in a gossipy account of a life-shaping relationship
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Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
This book is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning study of sport in a global perspective. Focusing largely on the "Big Four" sports in the US (baseball, basketball, American football and ice...
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The Canon: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson was not the first to suggest that the chemical fog produced by modern industry was carcinogenic. But her prodigious feat of synthesising a jumble of scientific and medical information...