DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
Francisco Ramirez sizes up a bold bootstrap-and-technology bid to fix the 'broken' US academy
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Destination of the Species: The Riddle of Human Existence
When people joke about the meaning of life, it is a sure sign they are fretful. Is life driven by point and purpose, or is it a chaotic, rudderless and aimless flux? Was Shakespeare's ruminating...
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Slapped by the Invisible Hand: The Panic of 2007
Victoria Bateman believes this analysis of the banking crisis could help prevent a repetition
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Born into a Dream: EuroFaculty and the Council of the Baltic Sea States
In 1996 I was invited by the Council of the Baltic Sea States to chair a committee of Western European political scientists, economists and lawyers charged with the task of inspecting and evaluating...
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Household Servants in Early Modern England
In this new survey of well mapped if politically contentious terrain, R.C. Richardson sets out fresh and important queries. Why has the history of household service recently become fashionable via...
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ARTS AND DESIGN- Between Art and Anthropology: Contemporary Ethnographic PracticeBy Arnd Schneider, professor of social anthropology, University of Oslo; and Christopher Wright, lecturer in...
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THE World Rankings set for release on 16 September
Seventh annual survey draws on robust new methodology and 13 performance indicators. Phil Baty reports
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Voices raised as tongues silenced
Planned cuts to language provision at Swansea draw a chorus of protests. Hannah Fearn reports
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News in brief
Scientific misconductHarvard researcher at faultHarvard academic Marc Hauser has been found solely responsible for eight instances of scientific misconduct under standards set by the university's...
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Aston University - When it just says 'buy me'
A worldwide study is to investigate the influence of advertising on consumer choices. The British Science Association study is led by Nick Lee, an expert in marketing and organisational research, and...
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University of Warwick - Boost for brainy Botswanans
Some of Botswana's cleverest children are benefiting from a scheme to improve the teaching they receive and the equipment in their classrooms. The International Gateway for Gifted Youth, launched in...
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University of Manchester - High costs of lesbian conception
Lesbian couples are finding it easier to conceive through fertility clinics, but the high costs involved mean that many couples are being forced to turn elsewhere. A study by Petra Nordqvist of the...
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Sheffield Hallam University - Faster fingertip search
A research team has secured €370,000 (£300,000) from the European Commission for a project on data-search technology.Working as part of a €4 million collaborative project with German technology firm...
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University of Sheffield - Soak up sun in South Yorkshire
Nick Clegg has opened a "solar farm" on the roof of a university building. The facility at the University of Sheffield is made up of state-of-the-art photovoltaic panels and is part of a £120,000...
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University of East Anglia - Architecture schools
A project has been launched to explore and record the surviving Victorian and Edwardian school buildings of rural Norfolk. The University of East Anglia is working with Norfolk Historic Buildings...