Wolverhampton bids ‘au revoir’ to French, ‘adiós’ to Spanish
University to scrap undergraduate degrees in the languages in response to ‘changes in demand and recruitment’. Melanie Newman reports
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Shine on: UEA undergraduate named International Student of the Year
Burkinabé recognised for raising awareness of climate change and fundraising efforts. John Morgan reports
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Exposed and vulnerable
The title could describe the feelings of overseas students in Australia and also the universities that enrol them. Phil Baty examines how violence against foreigners has put institutions' reliance on...
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Preliminary measures
After an earlier plan was scrapped by an incoming Labor government, Australia is finally set to launch its scheme to assess the quality of all academic departments. Zoë Corbyn reports
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The meaning of life
You don't have to be a devout believer to study the Bible - its insights into the human condition are enlightening for everyone, writes Dale Salwak
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My eureka moment: The enemies within
His research into Soviet and Stasi operatives and their sympathisers in the academy led Anthony Glees to see the risks posed today by Islamic terrorists on campus
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- A Chord in Time: The Evolution of the Augmented Sixth from Monteverdi to MahlerBy Mark Ellis, theory, analysis and musicology tutor, University of Huddersfield...
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Book of the week: Treading Softly
Laurence Coupe lauds the call for a language that will save the planet
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The Beijing Consensus: How China's Authoritarian Model Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century
Kerry Brown on a Washington insider's attempt to shed light on the Eastern giant's interesting future
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Poor Women in Rich Countries: The Feminization of Poverty over the Life Course
Women's engagement with the labour market and the welfare state has been the subject of increased attention in recent years, as more women enter the labour market, rates of lone parenthood change and...
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The Canon: The Wealth of Nations. By Adam Smith
Appointed professor of logic at the University of Glasgow in 1751 at the age of 28, Adam Smith established his academic credentials at a young age. Yet for all his intellectual prowess as a writer,...
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The 1926 Miners' Lockout: Meanings of Community in the Durham Coalfield
Alan Campbell unearths the complex attitudes among mining communities during the lockout
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Music, Theater and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914
What place can there be for opera? The question is still asked today, as debates surrounding arts funding and the validity of state subventions persist. What merits funding and what does not? What...
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Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry
When one thinks of medievalism in poetry, one thinks first of the 19th century, of John Keats, Alfred Tennyson, William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, of the reinventions of King Arthur,...
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A Zeptospace Odyssey: A Journey into the Physics of the LHC
Both the layman and expert will find these insights into particle physics fascinating, says Tara Shears