Prostitute myth has strong pull
Students at Russia's top universities who engage in casual prostitution are falling for the Pretty Woman myth, research suggests. A survey by US student Shonda Werry, who is studying international...
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French radicalism of 1968 replaced by cash concerns
Student confidence in the value of university diplomas has plummeted in the past three years to its lowest level for more than a quarter of a century, according to a survey that also reveals that...
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Berlin threat to first-years
Three of Berlin's universities are threatening to close their doors to first-year students this year after it was announced that their subsidies would be cut by almost €200 million (£140 million) a...
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Our survival depends on serving both masters
Greater collaboration is one benefit of devolution for Northern Ireland's universities, writes Richard Barnett Elections to the assembly are postponed and the political process in Northern Ireland...
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Filming the foreign exchange
The European Union's Erasmus student exchange programme might seem an unlikely focus for a film, but French director Cedric Klapisch has managed to get it on the big screen in his latest feature, Pot...
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Moore like Marge
An admin assistant at Loughborough University this week starred as the UK equivalent of Marge Simpson. Tania Moore and her family were chosen from more than 1,000 hopefuls to form the basis for a...
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Chair swap at 'top' club
The Coalition of Modern Universities is to hold its next meeting at the Oxford and Cambridge Club - clearly keen to trample on the ground of "top" universities. The meeting will see Michael Driscoll...
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Education's a drag
Australia has acquired something of a reputation for drag queens, thanks to the film Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Sydney's annual Mardi Gras parade. Now Melbourne University is running a course...
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Scalps of the rich and clever
Julia Margaret Cameron - From Life
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Old age and new identities
Age, Narrative and Migration
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Cockney captive turns the tables
In Search of the Red Slave
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Easy links to significant others
Shamanism
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'Anthropological arse' in saddle
The Sport of Kings: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newmarket
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about a penniless orphan: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day." The winner...
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Give your computer's IQ a boost
Journal of Machine Learning Research